New retail model

Championing retail: (from left) Foo with Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong and FEMACGA president Datuk Chai Kim Sen at the announcement of the expo.

THE growth of e-commerce in recent years has, no doubt, given brick-and-mortar businesses a run for their money.

But Secretariat for the Advancement of Malaysian Entrepreneurs (SAME) chief executive officer Neil Foo believes that online and offline businesses need not have to be enemies.