samantha lim li min is upset

[kaninabuchaojibye]

The Housing Board should do more to regulate the rental prices at coffee shops in housing estates.

My husband and I frequent the coffee shop at Dawson Skyville.

We have come to know some of the stallholders and, for us, it has become a community of sorts.

We were therefore dismayed to learn that due to the exorbitant increase in monthly rental (roughly doubled), one of the stallholders was forced to relocate.

The HDB explained to us that it was unable to interfere with individual stallholders' rentals charged by the eating house operator.

It also said it adopts a Price Quality Method tender for eating houses to consider, and if the eating house operator charges a high rental, it runs the risk of having many vacant stalls in the eating house.

The bargaining power between the eating house operator and the individual stallholders, many of whom are of average means, is patently unequal.

Rental prices, if largely left to the domain of private parties, can become unreasonable.

Many stallholders are already struggling to keep their businesses afloat, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic. I can understand the reasons for slight increases in rental but doubling it would be difficult for many stallholders to stomach.

In the long run, I worry about not only the stallholders' livelihood, but also the longevity of the small coffee shop culture. I personally enjoy many of the unique offerings that small stallholders offer.

If this issue is not addressed, I foresee that soon only the large commercial chains will be able to afford the rentals.

As a corollary to the rising rentals, stallholders would also be forced to increase the prices of their offerings to turn a profit, and these prices would undoubtedly be passed on to consumers.

I have observed that besides the stallholder who had to relocate, two other stallholders have also moved out.

It would truly be a shame if this significant part of our culture were eroded due to rising costs.

Surely, more can be done to tame the invisible hand of market forces.

Samantha Lim Li Min

 

[bobby]

Is she a stallholder ?

 

[a_korusawa]

this samantha is really kumgong idiotic piece of no brainer. she is just complaining daylight robberies to the real bandits!

in the 1st place, our gahmen is the real landlord across the whole nation, and they are the ones that set rules allowing a very small fraction of their tenants towards commercially driven so that they can raise all rentals across the country accordingly as planned!

c'mon! please lahhh! what hawker culture & those nonsensical movements - these are just schemes & hoax hyped up by our gahmen agencies to keep their tenants refreshed and going, just to sustain the high rentals!

this is also why they were so kanchiong and came out with those "subsidies" for landlords during the lockdown so they gave themselves justifications to take more $ from public or national funds! remember their left/right pockets rule!

 

[nayr69sg]

this samantha is really kumgong idiotic piece of no brainer. she is just complaining daylight robberies to the real bandits!

in the 1st place, our gahmen is the real landlord across the whole nation, and they are the ones that set rules allowing a very small fraction of their tenants towards commercially driven so that they can raise all rentals across the country accordingly as planned!

c'mon! please lahhh! what hawker culture & those nonsensical movements - these are just schemes & hoax hyped up by our gahmen agencies to keep their tenants refreshed and going, just to sustain the high rentals!

this is also why they were so kanchiong and came out with those "subsidies" for landlords during the lockdown so they gave themselves justifications to take more $ from public or national funds! remember their left/right pockets rule!

Life as hawker, F&B is damn shiong. No joke really.

Those low low prices SG people are used to and take for granted is from the sweat and sacrifice of these hard working business owners and the staff.

I can totally understand why most young SG people do not want to do F&B much less hawker or coffee shop.

 

[blissquek]

this samantha is really kumgong idiotic piece of no brainer. she is just complaining daylight robberies to the real bandits!

in the 1st place, our gahmen is the real landlord across the whole nation, and they are the ones that set rules allowing a very small fraction of their tenants towards commercially driven so that they can raise all rentals across the country accordingly as planned!

c'mon! please lahhh! what hawker culture & those nonsensical movements - these are just schemes & hoax hyped up by our gahmen agencies to keep their tenants refreshed and going, just to sustain the high rentals!

this is also why they were so kanchiong and came out with those "subsidies" for landlords during the lockdown so they gave themselves justifications to take more $ from public or national funds! remember their left/right pockets rule!

move the ladder up....
The high pay of PM n his minister clearly lead the way for others in the elite club to mimic .
hence management will pay themselves handsomely n increase in operation n business cost is inevitable. These will be pass down the line n translate to higher cost for end user, the consumers.
no surprise we are a very costly place to do business n live .!!!!

 

[nirvarq]

The problem is those rich foreigners that park their family here.

Because in here you can buy million dollars houses or properties in cash no tracing through bank accounts needed. Simply means you can spent huge amount of money here without the need to answer the source it comes from.)

So if you say free trade ofc it's true the locals can don't buy hence 'control' the prices if it's exorbitant prices but the rich foreigners bo lasah...... They don't really cares about the prices as long as it's nice they still can afford.

Hence Sinkies are farked by their own 'Lords' as always ...........

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

some kopitiam already kopi o $1.10, kopi milk $1.30
soon will be $1.50

 

[knnccb]

some kopitiam already kopi o $1.10, kopi milk $1.30
soon will be $1.50

heng moi bring own water bottle

 

[red amoeba]

Ironic she criticise the coffee shop but not high price the pigeon hole she is staying. Dawson skyville is one of the over priced thrash by HDB

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

heng moi bring own water bottle

it's actually a good idea
can control quality of kopi powder that u like

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

this samantha is really kumgong idiotic piece of no brainer. she is just complaining daylight robberies to the real bandits!

Or asking a rapist to apply lubricant and go in slowly!

 

[a_korusawa]

The problem is those rich foreigners that park their family here.

Because in here you can buy million dollars houses or properties in cash no tracing through bank accounts needed. Simply means you can spent huge amount of money here without the need to answer the source it comes from.)

So if you say free trade ofc it's true the locals can don't buy hence 'control' the prices if it's exorbitant prices but the rich foreigners bo lasah...... They don't really cares about the prices as long as it's nice they still can afford.

Hence Sinkies are farked by their own 'Lords' as always ...........

move the ladder up....
The high pay of PM n his minister clearly lead the way for others in the elite club to mimic .
hence management will pay themselves handsomely n increase in operation n business cost is inevitable. These will be pass down the line n translate to higher cost for end user, the consumers.
no surprise we are a very costly place to do business n live .!!!!

TOTALLY agreed!

lky drove away all the tycoons during his times (except those guai guai ones) knowingly that they will control the country's growth to exorbitant pricings to keep them happy whilst driving peasants into more misery. in the pride of nation building, lky gotta put "pricing" in his control with iron-ruled hands..... so hdb, mom, all these agencies setup to manage....

now, his son, sifart loong totally lost control over it, in the name of serving his billion dollars parliament & ministers like what blissquek says!
so this country is NO LONGER serving the ppl, but making it "affordable" for the ppl to survive!

Note!
survive means breathe, eat, sleep and work . . . . dun ever think of owning anything like car, flat etc. !!!

 

[Froggy]

Samantha talked so much long sob sob story yet did not provide numbers to prove

I consider this fake news to instigate hatred and disunity this Samantha person should be POFMA

 

[a_korusawa]

Life as hawker, F&B is damn shiong. No joke really.

Those low low prices SG people are used to and take for granted is from the sweat and sacrifice of these hard working business owners and the staff.

I can totally understand why most young SG people do not want to do F&B much less hawker or coffee shop.

I have frens in TW whom run their family business on F&B. they keep innovating with fantastic recipes and building new menus that lead to franchises.
eventually, their workers become bosses of their owns while fren's family owns shares within..... how does this work?

simply becos they control their own capital costs from rentals, suppliers, recipe etc. and call it their own products!

so they have the pride to excel with new recipes and new taste . . . . this is the TRUE HAWKER CULTURE !!!

this will NEVER happen here coz all F&B is surviving to keep their business afloat from the high cost i.e. rentals & raw supplier (dun forget! raw suppliers are controlled & manipulated by gahmen agencies too !!!)

so local f&b only works according to procedures, and protocols to cut cost whilst keeping workers happy..... this way, where got good food !!!!!!?????

 

[batman1]

The 61% are very happy with the prices of hawker food.

 

[Xisiqomelir]

@Cottonmouth please deal with this cunt

 

[a_korusawa]

@Cottonmouth please deal with this cunt

this cunt is NOT complaining about high rentals at all!
she;s bragging she's so rich that she stays in dawson k, and her investment should c/w good cheap hawker food.....
as usual like any loser sinkie attitude, she thinks she's privileged & deserved cheap good hawker food stalls available around her highly priced residence
actual, someone should burn her cunt, let her cry and feel the 'real' pain in reality that staying in dawson k is just another hyped up pigeon hole!
if she wanna eat piggy food, then she should move to some pig sty where good food is, also where cheaper rental or residences there!

 

[knnccb]

@Cottonmouth please deal with this cunt

he will bring a pair of scissors

 

[chickenpieforeveryone]

aiya if she really wanant support the hawkers then pay them more lor.. if not move to cheaper neighborhoods la... stay at dawson then complain no hawker food eat..

 

[millim6868]

kum lan CB ,complain for wat, she ask for it n 61% also,kum lan