Shopping complexes luring the crowd

Business must go on: Lau at his shoe shop which he inherits from his father.

SIBU: Doing business in the town centre is not the same now as in the yesteryears.

Back then almost all types of businesses located in the town centre could enjoy good sales. A proprietor of a shoe shop here said the mushrooming of shopping complexes at the outskirts of the town had caused a rippling effect to businesses operating in the town centre.