A vendor waits for buyers at a stall selling firecrackers at the firecracker market at the South Road Properties, which is also the city’s firecracker zone. | Delta Letigio
The vendors were glad to report that although there were fewer customers compared in the past year, more customers were observed compared to the recent Christmas celebrations.Ernie Pardillo, a vendor of the market in the past 10 years, said there was a significant drop of customers compared to 2019, with only fewer people buying due to the restrictions set by the community quarantine.
Still, the number of customers were greater than that of last Christmas, a rise of at least 50 percent, since people already knew that they were selling firecrackers in the designated zones.