Going for the brand

IT MAY SOUND UNBELIEVABLE, but brand-name backpacks for school are being sold for as much as $350 and shoes for as high as $250.
More unbelievable is that both items are selling well. In fact, four Swan Street, Bridgetown retailers basically said that if they had more of these brand-name bags they would have chalked up even better sales.
“Three hundred dollar bags is the bomb. Cheap bags [those between $65 and $75] are not moving,” said one vendor of ten years’ experience.
“I wish I had more to sell now,” she told the SATURDAY SUN on Thursday, but declined to give her name.