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Despite the comfort, cleanliness and convenience of supermarkets, Singaporeans still love buying their groceries at wet markets.Some of the reasons they gave for shopping there were the ability to bargain, to choose the exact amount you want and the different cuts of meat, not available at supermarkets. What's your experience?
Wet markets are for low-class people
Ju-Len - ADMIT IT, the last time I bought anything from a wet market was never. I'm a supermarket kind of guy, mostly because where I live there's an NTUC nearby and it's more convenient than schlepping out to a wet market.
Besides, in a supermarket they don't seem to mind if you clown around with their fruit.
Try doing that in a wet market and see what kind of bollocking you get from the stall owner!
I do remember accompanying my mum to a wet market when I was a boy, and my overwhelming memory of the place is that it stinks!
"Wet markets must be for low-class people," I remember thinking. Not remembering, of course, that my own mum was shopping in one!
Anyway, I tend to do my grocery shopping at night after work, so it's not as if I'm able to catch the wet market in the early morning, when all the stalls are open.
It's not so much that I'd rather be in an NTUC or Cold Storage than a wet market, then. It's more like I'd rather be in bed.
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Despite the comfort, cleanliness and convenience of supermarkets, Singaporeans still love buying their groceries at wet markets.Some of the reasons they gave for shopping there were the ability to bargain, to choose the exact amount you want and the different cuts of meat, not available at supermarkets. What's your experience?
Wet markets are for low-class people
Ju-Len - ADMIT IT, the last time I bought anything from a wet market was never. I'm a supermarket kind of guy, mostly because where I live there's an NTUC nearby and it's more convenient than schlepping out to a wet market.
Besides, in a supermarket they don't seem to mind if you clown around with their fruit.
Try doing that in a wet market and see what kind of bollocking you get from the stall owner!
I do remember accompanying my mum to a wet market when I was a boy, and my overwhelming memory of the place is that it stinks!
"Wet markets must be for low-class people," I remember thinking. Not remembering, of course, that my own mum was shopping in one!
Anyway, I tend to do my grocery shopping at night after work, so it's not as if I'm able to catch the wet market in the early morning, when all the stalls are open.
It's not so much that I'd rather be in an NTUC or Cold Storage than a wet market, then. It's more like I'd rather be in bed.
