Stretching the ringgit


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 04 Nov 2007

With salaries stagnating and prices of goods and other commodities escalating, many find it a challenge to stretch their ringgit. Sunday Star checks out how consumers – and retailers – are coping with the price hikes. 

TO fork out less money each time they go shopping for foodstuff and household items, many are buying only what’s absolutely necessary and not stocking up several pieces of the same item. 

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