Editorial
Supply chain disrupted
Cosumers' sufferings multiply
THE three day blockade has caused more harm than only slowing down of the pace of citizens' lives. Businesses are also getting heavily affected by the frequent disruptions.
Wholesalers are waiting for customers, but with little luck whatsoever. The market of dry goods like rice and sugar can at least hope to sell these products when the political situation is calmer, but the wholesalers for vegetables or other time-sensitive products are in bigger trouble. The waste, the loss and the total blockage is disheartening. Bangladesh's overall economy and the people who work in different layers of the value chain are all impacted by the political disquiet.
There are thousand and one examples of how the political situation is making life harder for all of us. The wholesale market is one of them. The affect of the downwards sale will influence our daily lives with the possibility of hiked up prices of essential products.
Are we ready to dish out more money because of someone's desire to stop the country's day-to-day activities? What have our countrymen done that they have to receive these small and big blows at every juncture of their lives? And will we have to just sit around and accept it till the election? We surely hope not.
Let the primacy of the economy weigh in with our political leaders on both sides of the aisle to reinvigorate the supply chain for the good of the common consumers and for business as a whole.
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