Category: Retail / Shopping / Mall News
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Tesco is now Lotuss. Have you visited one yet?
Tesco is now Lotuss. Supermarket / hypermarket business is not an easy business. It needs to be located in an area which is central enough. It needs a lot of car parks because no one buys groceries and carries bags and bags and then take the MRT. It must have lots of choices, from the…
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Gamuda Quayside mall opens. My visit report here.
Gamuda Quayside mall opens. What? Another mall? There are already too many malls already. Stop building more malls. Well, perhaps you tell that to the buyers who are always attracted if the new township happens to come with a community mall. Where most of the things they need could be just a few minutes away.…
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Surprised? Malls start to show vibrancy again.
Malls for me will be a great sign of whether we are recovering or are we in another crisis. Do note that when a crisis happens, unemployment becomes so acute that even when people have money to spend, they dare not spend for fear of what’s happening next. Here’s a latest one from my latest…
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Lunch? Dinner? Groceries? Order through orders.my Help businesses. Thank you.
My good friend told me about this latest platform which is growing by leaps and bounds a few days ago. I checked it out and found out that orders.my is a FREE platform for sellers. In other words, if you are thinking of starting a small business selling your secret recipe Loh Mai Kai, then…
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Uncertainty is not a good sign, that’s why we need to do something about it.
I shop online every other day. I have also started to visit malls again here in Selangor / KL. However, when the question arises as to whether I would stop visiting retail stores or only order food deliveries, the answer is an easy one, NO. Then again, not everyone is like me I guess. There…
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What’s reopening? The journey towards normalization while waiting for vaccine.
Schools are reopening in Vietnam, New Zealand and Germany. Article in VOX.com here. German students test themselves for COVID-19 every 4 days. Tests come back within the same day and the student could then proceed to go to school with a green sticker; there is no need to wear a mask. In Vietnam, temperature checks…
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New norm is to shop online? Do I look like one?
Do look at the few images below. During this MCO, my frequency of shopping online has increased from once a week to probably once per day. Somehow, there will be something that pops into my mind and I have to quickly get it via online. Groceries? Checked. Fresh fish from Kuala Selangor? Checked. Soup ingredients…
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Will MCO spell the end for shopping malls?
There has been news about hotels closing down because of the Movement Control Order (MCO) which has now been extended to 12th May 2020. When we read a little more, then we realised the hotel was already suffering losses for the past few years even before the MCO. There has also been news about some…
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When push comes to shove, needs become key.
Where do you shop these days under the Movement Control Order (MCO)? All the places are shop are within 2.5km from my home. None are the huge hypermarkets. They are the smaller convenience stores with enough variety of things but lacking the diversity of brands. If my wife asked me to buy sweet corn in…
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Cut rental? Some malls have waived.
These days, it’s common for tenants to try and ask for a waiver from their landlords. Remember that landlord who reduced his tenant’s rental by 60%? Here’s that article: Let me give you 60% rental reduction Well, it seems that he is not the only one yeah. These are all the malls in Malaysia which…