Parents and kids doing back-to-school shopping at a mall in Doha, yesterday. Pics: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula
With only a few days to go for the onset of the new academic year, the hypermarkets, retail shops and malls in Qatar have launched various innovative back-to-school offers to meet the growing demands.
Items, which are essential for students, are available at discounted rates at almost all markets. Quality Hyper Market’s back-to-school offers will end on September 13. It offers school bags ranging between QR10 to QR49. Other stationery items at QR10 to QR30, whereas the ‘Best Buy’ offer gives student table chair set at QR99.
Talking to The Peninsula, Muhammed, a parent at Lulu Hypermarket, said, “We avail the amazing offers at Lulu, where we trust quality over quantity. We live near Old Airport area so we prefer shopping here. The offers they introduced this year have no major changes at all compared to the offers last year, We expected some changes in prices due to blocked but Qatar has surprisingly coped up with the crisis flawlessly.”
Masskar Hypermarket at Wathnan Mall offers also ending on September 16. The prices of items range between QR5 up to QR144. Offers include different variety of items which include school bags, stationery items, lunch boxes, student table chair and many more useful items for children.
Ansar Gallery offers start today and will last until September 20. There are a bundle of exciting offer, which include ‘buy three school bags and get notebooks free’, stationary items ranging between QR6 up to QR25 and uniforms collection starting from QR15 to QR35. Shoes for children are also available at all the branches of Ansar Gallery.
Doha Festival City (DHFC) has scheduled a vast new collection by retailers for the back-to-school season. Children will now get to be fully prepared for new school year availing the offers at Marks & Spencer, Centrepoint, Adidas, Debenhams, Sacoor Kids, MUJI, and Borders.
Once the back-to-school kit has been purchased, children can up-style their shoes and bags at the ‘personalisation station,’ available daily from September 10 to September 23 (3pm-9pm).
Sacoor Kids has a range of products with a promotional offer of “Buy one and get the second one on half price” for all items in store. Adidas offers a new collection of products in unique styles with an additional surprise of QR50 voucher back with every minimum spend of QR250.
Debenhams created an outstanding back-to-school section, in which children can enjoy picking out school supplies and clothing to show off with; with an ongoing promotion of ‘buy two and get the third for free’.
With another “buy two and get the third for free” promotion, Muji is offering a selection with their stationery and fashion until September 9.
Borders offers everything children need for their back-to-school stationery in all the colours and styles. Marks & Spencer’s new stain-away technology helps to release and resist daily stains, using water only, on all its products not exceeding QR150.
At DHFC’s personalisation station (Centre Court), shoppers can hand over their new shoes or bag to create their own customised look after spending a minimum of QR200. It is open daily from September 10 to 23.
