Sheng Shiong to Replace Sporns With FTrash in Wet Markets?!

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</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>They do not meet criteria for conversion into supermarkets </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jessica Lim
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HDB says that not all wet markets will be converted into Sheng Siong outlets. -- PHOTO: WANBAO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->SUPERMARKET chain Sheng Siong, which is planning to take over six wet markets, has been told by the Housing Board that it cannot convert them into supermarkets.
The wet markets will have to stay because they do not meet the criteria for conversion into supermarkets, the HDB said on Friday.
Applications for such instances of conversion of use are assessed on a case-by- case basis, depending on the needs of residents, stall occupancy rate, operating hours and number of customers.
But while the HDB's announcement should please residents who are loath to give up shopping in their neighbourhood wet markets, there is still a question mark over the stallholders' livelihood.
This is because when Sheng Siong formally takes over ownership of the markets, it will have the power to decide whom to rent to, and at what price.
The six wet markets are in Choa Chu Kang Street 62, Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1, Serangoon Avenue 3, Bukit Batok West Avenue 8, Block 623 Elias Road and Fajar Road.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times
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[VeryWise]

I shall not speculate what will happen if Sheng Shiong manage to convert all the wet markets to supermarket. But one thing I can be sure...the stall owners will not have a mean to make a decent livelihood. All the stalls will be gone and replaced by the "Sheng Shiong" supermart concept. Whether they will employ Singaporeans as workers, I could think yes. They have to be politically correct. But from what I saw in their other supermarts, a lot of the cashiers and their employees are Malaysians or from other countries. Imagine this, we used to have 100 ppl (considering 100 stalls), perhaps mostly Singaporeans earning a decent amount to feed their families. All of them suddenly lose a mean to do biz. Tell me if u could, can they find a job elsewhere? Are we denying ppl who do not wish to work under ppl a mean to do a small scale biz? Do we really need so many supermarts?

 

[R4g3]

expected, nothing surprising.