How do you Shop?

How do you choose which shop to go into when you are in a mall....

Do you walk around for hours without buying a single thing.....then off for some tea elsewhere?

Say you're facing a side by side shop selling nearly identical things, perhaps only minor differences in patterns or color......do you think that you would have a good bargain with either of them due to competition or are they actually collaborating or even perhaps owned by the same person?

What about the ethnicity and the language of the shopkeepers and its customers?

Would that be a part of your choice....

Ever been to a mall where suddenly you feel ...like sooo out of place....

Does that ever happen to you?

I saw this just now....

PUTRAJAYA, 3 Mac — Kerjasama pusat membeli-belah masih kurang memuaskan dalam memberi ruang perniagaan kepada usahawan Bumiputera, kata Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.

“Banyak pusat membeli-belah masih bersifat pilih kasih dan tak tahu lagi apa sebabnya,” katanya kepada media selepas merasmikan pembukaan premis Main Gallery Sdn Bhd di Pusat Membeli-Belah Alamanda Putrajaya, di sini.

“Usahawan Bumiputera tidak diberi ruang yang sepatutnya walaupun mereka mampu membayar sewa seperti pihak lain. Walaupun mereka mempunyai perniagaan berdaya maju tetapi peluang itu tidak terbuka luas seperti yang dinikmati oleh pihak lain.

“Saya sarankan supaya mereka lebih adil dalam soal ini kerana saya yakin sekiranya diberi peluang, usahawan Bumiputera tidak ada masalah dalam bidang yang diceburi mereka,” kata beliau.

Katanya kerajaan sudah memainkan peranan dengan memberi tumpuan terhadap ekonomi negara dengan membuka ruang untuk pembinaan pusat-pusat membeli-belah yang kini “bercambah seperti cendawan selepas hujan.”

“Kita sudah beri banyak peluang. Kita sudah mainkan peranan. Kini terletak pada pihak swasta pula untuk menyumbang sedikit dari segi membuka ruang dan peluang kepada usahawan Bumiputera untuk turut serta dalam sektor peruncitan ini,” katanya.

Main Gallery yang ditubuhkan pada 1988, ialah syarikat Bumiputera yang berkemahiran dalam menghasilkan trofi dan cenderamata. Ia mempunyai satu lagi premis perniagaan di Pertama Komplek, Kuala Lumpur dan sebuah kilang di IKS Kampung Pandan, Ampang. — Bernama

Now what?

Ask them to do it?

These are private entities who may not even share the same value system in this particular issue........

You the Govt should consider something else...

What if you had a chain of stores that can be rented to Bumi entreprenuers in selected malls that can allow these business to further branch out into other malls......build good local brands.....

.....and the first step in all of that...

is to have ownership in the target area (shopping malls, shoplots etc..........

if the long term returns are good in selected areas...i think folks wouldn't mind...

consolidate the money again........a REIT perhaps?

mmm.........what ever happen to Yayasan Amanah Hartanah Bumiputera?

anyway back to what Mukhriz said...

Usahawan Bumiputera tidak diberi ruang yang sepatutnya walaupun mereka mampu membayar sewa seperti pihak lain. Walaupun mereka mempunyai perniagaan berdaya maju tetapi peluang itu tidak terbuka luas seperti yang dinikmati oleh pihak lain

Wooo......that one lain macam sikit?

gua bace dua kali....so Usahawan Bumiputera is now given ruang yang kurang patut instead of yang sepatutnya ? Or what you actually mean is that they were not even considered from the outset by selective discriminination.....

Operative word....is peluang........

that is what this country is all about........the opportunity to a possibility......a choice of events in ones life.........

Of late we have become to divisive because of opportunity.....

now to another thing i wanna ask you about....

What do you know about the New Economic Model for Malaysia?

How transparent is that discussion? Are all the meetings recorded, on how the document was created together with the comments and discussions of the policymakers, the stakeholders representatives and the team who assisted.....

Is it gonna be something to solicit further comments from the public or just to show us that its done ?

It's march already.......

ape cite ?

I find it hard when I meet people.....I ask them what do you know about it....i see blank faces....