KOZHIKODE: When life throws lemons at you, you make lemonade. This is exactly what Malappuram native Faizal Imperial did to turn his life around during the pandemic.
Barely a week after he opened his shop, which had been lying idle for several months, Faizal’s customised T-shirts, displaying vaccination details, are selling like hot-cakes, especially among youngsters.
The T-shirts are printed at his shop-cum-printing press — Imperial Press — at Kottapadi in Malappuram. He says he came up with the idea to print the T-shirts after the government made it mandatory for people to produce vaccination certificates whenever they visited shops and other establishments. So far, he has sold 1,000 such T-shirts across the state.
“I have been flooded with orders ever since the shop opened for business last week,” said the 46-year old Faizal. Those who wish to avail the customised T-shirt should send her/his vaccination certificate in PDF format through Whatsapp. “The cost of each T-shirt is `250. It is available in several colours,” he said.