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many wet market food sellers are honest and hardworking people. they wake up at 3 to 5 am each day to serve the community.
certainly they community service should count and they be treated with more leniency?
these stall holders may not have anywhere else to go if booted.
SS is smart. By having employees to run the stalls they earn from ALL the stalls as the previous boss-stall holder-uncles are replaced by salaried employees. so smart. too smart. growth at all cost?
well, while i disagree on many things the govt has done in recent times, i’ll go with the govt on this wet market thingy.
let market forces decide what happens. Let your pocket decide on whether Sheng Siong is doing the right thing.
If they increase rents, therefore making stallholders increase the cost, then it has to happen. consumers will go elsewhere.
Either the stallholders will be replaced by newer stallholders who CAN offer a better price and survive. Or.. no stallholders would come in, and Sheng Siong loses their investments.
When the govt gets too involved in everything – people not happy. When the govt allows market forces to determine businesses – people still not happy.
When too many people depend on govt – you not happy. When people do things independently – you also not happy.
everything want cheap, easy, convenient.
What i do notice is the nature of always complaining, and wanting a higher power to sort things out.
how like dat? when will we ever grow up?
to add…if there’s anything that people should really be looking into is –
is regulation of the financial market. to stop i-banks from screwing with people, and checking whether the banks were guilty of misleading the public into buying toxic investments.
this is what SDP or opposition should be pushing for.
For Sheng Siong, the market (i.e. u and i), will decide its fate.
next thing we are likely to see is public listed company that can afford to bid high take over these wet market. What is stopping them from cornering the market leading to an oligopolistic situation. Will it then be market forces deciding on what u pay? i do not think so, these companies can take losses from a few of their many outlets, essentially the consumers will then be left with little choice but to choose not between wet markets as it stands now, but between outlets controlled by these operators. this is yet another incident of the govt washing their hands and letting ‘market forces’ screw it’s population. Just being pragmatic here.