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Shop Size
You have to admire the balls of the authorities here. Now legislating on the size of shops. Customers aren't bothered as prices tend to be cheaper as rents are lower. New retailers / entrepreneurs can afford to set up. Smaller shops tend to be more individual and break the 'globalisation' of the street scene. I smell something rotten here !
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone gets to dance with the grim reaper.
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Some kind of background or link on this? I'm not really sure what you're discussing here.Travailes wrote:You have to admire the balls of the authorities here. Now legislating on the size of shops. Customers aren't bothered as prices tend to be cheaper as rents are lower. New retailers / entrepreneurs can afford to set up. Smaller shops tend to be more individual and break the 'globalisation' of the street scene. I smell something rotten here !
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http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ne ... ebox-shopszzm9980 wrote:Some kind of background or link on this? I'm not really sure what you're discussing here.Travailes wrote:You have to admire the balls of the authorities here. Now legislating on the size of shops. Customers aren't bothered as prices tend to be cheaper as rents are lower. New retailers / entrepreneurs can afford to set up. Smaller shops tend to be more individual and break the 'globalisation' of the street scene. I smell something rotten here !
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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Couple of other interesting stories/analysis' in the Today paper today as well:
http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/m ... -all-boats
http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/i ... lost-cause
http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/m ... -all-boats
http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/i ... lost-cause
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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Ok, that does help, and puts OP's rant into context.sundaymorningstaple wrote:http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ne ... ebox-shopszzm9980 wrote:Some kind of background or link on this? I'm not really sure what you're discussing here.Travailes wrote:You have to admire the balls of the authorities here. Now legislating on the size of shops. Customers aren't bothered as prices tend to be cheaper as rents are lower. New retailers / entrepreneurs can afford to set up. Smaller shops tend to be more individual and break the 'globalisation' of the street scene. I smell something rotten here !
I do appreciate the minimum width for walkways requirements. While I agree with the government that an entire mall of shoebox stores is probably not sustainable, and will turn into a retail ghetto or ghost-town, I don't think they should legislate it like this. Just my opinion.
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