Friday, 13 November 2009

Gold souk loses lustre for shopkeepers

In the year since Fires Omran opened his Felopateer Palace shop in the Dubai Mall gold souk, he has had just one paying customer, who bought two watches for Dh17,000 (US$4,628).

So when the mall management sent him a notice last week raising his rent 40 per cent to Dh371,000 from Dh265,000 a year, he decided to get out.

Mr Omran said he closed the store on Wednesday, resulting in a company loss of Dh2 million.

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