Hawkers feeling pressure from rising costs
Written by David Chua
According to this article by the Straits Times, it is being reported that hawkers who signed up under the Government’s Retail Price Watch Group program which started early this year, are now facing a situation of being unable to cope with the rising operational costs.
Under the program, hawkers had pledged to hold their prices for 6 months but many hawkers that The Straits Times interviewed have expressed concern that they are not able to cope as the prices of raw material have been on the increase.
This may see these hawkers who originally volunteered under the program to pull out of the program prematurely.
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