There is good news for Christmas tree buyers this year. Prices of real trees in Dubai have dropped 25 to 40 per cent, according to sellers on the Hubaiba street of Satwa.
Shop sellers from this street, also fondly called the ‘plant street’ told Gulf News that import costs of the real Fraser fir from Canada, Nordmann fir from Denmark and Noble fir from the US and Canada have dropped with respect to shipping and purchase price. Hence, despite the massive demand for Christmas trees in Dubai, there is a respite in prices fortunately for buyers this year.
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Shop sellers from this street, also fondly called the ‘plant street’ told Gulf News that import costs of the real Fraser fir from Canada, Nordmann fir from Denmark and Noble fir from the US and Canada have dropped with respect to shipping and purchase price. Hence, despite the massive demand for Christmas trees in Dubai, there is a respite in prices fortunately for buyers this year.
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/good-news-christmas-tree-prices-dropped-25-to-40-per-cent-in-dubai-this-year-1.92830939
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Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km
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00:00Christmas is here and behind me is an area of trees which have come down from Denmark
00:17and Canada.
00:18Well, these trees are selling like hotcakes at the National Flower Shop in Svalbard.
00:25Prices of Christmas trees range from as low as 1.25 to 2.50 Dirhams, going all the way
00:33up to 2,000 Dirhams.
00:34We have been here for 38 years and I'm here for 19 years.
00:39We bring almost 2,000 trees, like three or four varieties of trees like in Canada, US,
00:46Denmark.
00:47The varieties are Northland, Fraser, Noble.
00:51We have brought, all the trees are almost sold and the rest, from 2,000 trees, only
00:57like 20 trees are left here.
00:59If you compare from last year, this year the price has been a bit low, a bit of a raise
01:04in price.
01:05Last year the price was like, 5 to 6 feet was 800, this year it's like 400.
01:12We bring also the smaller trees, 1.25 to 1.50 high for 200 Dirhams.
01:17They go for like 1.8 to 2 meters, they are windlass, they go for 3.3 meters, 3.5 meters.
01:23The particles, they go for 4.5 meters, 5 meters range.
01:27Mostly by any customer, the rate is 2 meters, 2.3, 2.4, like that.