Kalah to sarawak retail? This is a cash game ya...

U org sbh isit?

haven seen any gafu in kch yet

Saxit?

sure kalah.

Sarawak got:

Everrise
H&L
Everwin
CS Mart
Upwell
Aeon
Mydin (one close down oredi)
Econsave
E-mart

All of them caters to each individual's needs and shopping preferences.
Not to mention, there's FARLEY (whole Sarawak) and UNACO (Kuching only).

Tell us more about Sabah and Sarawak local hypermarket.

I believe Giant been established for long in Sabah and Sarawak. And such local player will just recently expanding.

So why hypermarket like Giant can be loose to local hypermarket?

Serway supermarket

i'm from semenanjung, recently visited kk, they have huge variety of local goods, organic goods, and also imported goods like cold storage and price is cheap! not expensive as cold storage!

This post has been edited by la bella: Feb 3 2020, 01:22 PM

There were 2 Giant in Miri, now left 1 and even that looks like dead hypermaket walking. They been around long before Everwin.

Everwin is fairly new, i think they open first Miri branch in 2016. Then open second in 2018, third in 2019 and now fourth in 2020 which is just a kilometer away from the last Giant. They beat Giant in terms of price and products that caters more to everyday needs. I feel kesian to see Giant dying and have nothing against it but what to do when their competitors does better.

forgot about farley.

Ta Kiong also.

Giant sure cannot survive because there's nothing special about them, and quite pricey, some of the goods.

so why is PH wanting to get rid of GST?

Let them fight till the death

Best for consumer

Kek

I dont like bijan, but I think GST is a good tax system, to be fair.

Bijan is right to swing in GST, but at the wrong timing, for the wrong reason and at the wrongful rate (too high). On such basis, PH is right to bashed it last time, and to 'moderate' it now.

This post has been edited by Nanti Sekejap: Feb 3 2020, 02:42 PM

big hypermarkets offer too much variety. for the majority of customers those products are not even on their radar.

whereas newer players like CS, Everwin, Farley and Unaco focus only on the products found in the basket of a typical consumer. they can focus on a small range of products, ordering more to negotiate for a better price, then pass that down to their customers.

that's why sometimes even the promo price of big hypermarket cannot even beat the normal price of these new players

So SST is the right thing and the right time to do it?

When SST launched, majority of items went up in price. so SST rate is even more wrongfully high?

To be honest, I do not have much understand to the SST. I blame PH for not promoting it as besar besaran as BN promoting GST last time.
perhaps you can educate me how it works, in brief and lay man term. TQ

Better just close down lah. Too many of such shit stores. Giant so plain.

Don't forget about sneaky CS Mini Market. They always try to operate by opening next door to 'popular supermarket'. One of the reason why Tabuan Giant is getting lower sales, and that Giant branch start operate at 8AM CS Mini Market operate at 7AM I think.

Millimewah enjoice

6% GST. Going through every stage, from factory to wholesale to retail to end-user, everybody have to pay GST. All will be refunded except the end user. That way, very difficult for everyone to escape paying tax.

10% SST. Paid at factory gate only. Because of mark-up through every stage of the trade, the original 10% will snowballs so by the time the end user get their product, it could be far higher than 10%. This is called tax cascading. Easier to evade tax by businesses.

And if use the product in restaurant, you pay another 6% on top of the 10% SST (paid by factory)