uhh.. if you guys kpkb about the prices, then brown-bag your
lunches..
actually, the talking bus is right.. the prices of the
commodities have gone through the roof...
it is made worse by the extortion level of rent caused by the
kiasu idiot developers who bid unreasonably high bids for parcels
of land..
this in turn causes them to try to recoup their expenditure by
charging astronomical rents to the stalls... who then pass the
costs to you.. the consumers..
to break out of the cycle, just go to the supermarket,
buy some produce, make your own lunches...
you think supermarkets dun need land, or dun need to pay rent
har?
this issue of high rental affects every business.
it is a joke to think that hawker centers and wet markets are
originally created to centralise all the small-time business, and
to prevent illegal hawking.
but now, other than a small group of people who pay cheap rents
to NEA, most are paying $2-4K/mnth for a tiny shop space to private
landlords.
for dry market, its worse. i found out from a butcher that
he has to pay $5k rent every month just for his tiny counter within
the shop. he has to share it with the groccer, fruit seller,
poultry seller and the fishmonger, and each have to pay 5k.
thats over 20k monthly for a regular shop.
