National Environment Agency (NEA) required all street hawkers including tissue sellers to pay an annual fee of $120 or $10 a month to legally sell their wares in public.
I knew that most tissue sellers are unemployed aunties or uncles in their 70s or 80s but seriously having them to pay an annual fee of $120 just to sell tissue? Based on current market rate of $1 for 3 packs if $10 a month that would mean they need to sell 30 packs in a month to cover the licence fee. The precious $120 would be more useful if it was used to pay housing rent or simply buying food than to get a piece of paper which no one actually bother about.
Although it is possible that some of these tissue sellers might be manipulated by syndicates as a way to use compassion to make money but in Singapore I seriously dun think it is common. Even so if that is the case then NEA should come out with a scheme which issue free licence to these genuine tissue sellers and also a simple note to have them display their licence at all time. This I believe not only will curb any illegal syndicates from benefiting it also help to generate more trust with customers like us when buying tissue from them. Furthermore many of these tissue sellers have been doing this for years and it is part of the hawker culture to have them coming over to tables to sell tissue.
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I knew that most tissue sellers are unemployed aunties or uncles in their 70s or 80s but seriously having them to pay an annual fee of $120 just to sell tissue? Based on current market rate of $1 for 3 packs if $10 a month that would mean they need to sell 30 packs in a month to cover the licence fee. The precious $120 would be more useful if it was used to pay housing rent or simply buying food than to get a piece of paper which no one actually bother about.
Although it is possible that some of these tissue sellers might be manipulated by syndicates as a way to use compassion to make money but in Singapore I seriously dun think it is common. Even so if that is the case then NEA should come out with a scheme which issue free licence to these genuine tissue sellers and also a simple note to have them display their licence at all time. This I believe not only will curb any illegal syndicates from benefiting it also help to generate more trust with customers like us when buying tissue from them. Furthermore many of these tissue sellers have been doing this for years and it is part of the hawker culture to have them coming over to tables to sell tissue.
For more info read here.
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