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MARA Digital Mall bakal bungkus?..macai tertekan!!!
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Two years on, Mara Digital Mall losing its shine?
FMT Reporters | September 21, 2017
The mall is reportedly struggling with a decline in sales with one trader saying his customers had eventually returned to Low Yat Plaza.
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PETALING JAYA: It was touted as a competitor for information communications technology (ICT) mall Low Yat Plaza at its opening two years ago, but today, Mara Digital Mall is reportedly struggling with a decline in sales and number of patrons.
Mara Digital Mall, also known as “Low Yat 2”, was launched on Dec 8, 2015, following a much-publicised dispute at Low Yat Plaza in July that year when a youth allegedly stole a RM800 Lenovo smartphone from one of the shops there.
Unlike Low Yat Plaza, Mara Digital Mall caters specifically to Bumiputera entrepreneurs, and is aimed at assisting them in breaking through the ICT market.
The proposal for the platform reserved specifically for Malay-Bumiputera traders received mixed reactions at the time, but the mall appeared to do well at first.
Last December, Rural and Regional Development Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said Mara Digital Mall had recorded a turnover of RM18.4 million as of November that year.
He said this proved wrong the cynics who had said that the mall would not last long.
According to The Malaysian Reserve, however, traders are now seeing a decrease in sales which they attribute to a lack of product variation, competitive prices and slow publicity.
This is despite the mall’s strategic location near Sogo Mall and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur.
Faizal Johari, who is a manager at Acer Inc Concept Store, told the portal that his business had done well for the first few months, but that his customers had eventually returned to Low Yat Plaza.
In the report, he said traders at Mara Digital Mall could not compete with those at Low Yat Plaza, who sold their products at lower prices.
“We can sell at cheaper price if we have high volume, but that is impossible without visibility. We can’t even lower our prices because we are required to get our supplies from a sole vendor.
“If we are given the freedom to choose our suppliers, we might be able to lower our prices,” he was quoted as saying.
According to The Malaysian Reserve, products sold at Mara Digital Mall are generally 10% to 12% more expensive than those available at Low Yat Plaza.
This is not the first time concerns have been raised over these issues.
In December last year, traders said they were worried that the inability of the sole supplier, WGN Scan Sdn Bhd (WGN), to ensure a constant supply of IT products would affect consumer confidence.
One of them, Mohamad Fadzly Rahmat, said many of his customers had complained that the items they wanted were not available.
“If we don’t have the items, then people will not be satisfied with the service here. Mara Digital Mall is an IT centre not a pasar malam (night market),” he had said, adding that his customers grumbled each time they were given the “no stock” excuse.
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shhhh...
jangan tepek berita sensitif gini...nanti cepat sentap...nanti hati tisu pula |
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Persoalannya, kenapa peniaga2 Mall ni dikenakan syarat amik barang2 dpd satu supplier saja. Siapa supplier tu? Syarat ni siapa yg kenakan? Kalau kerajaan, kenapa kerajaan kena letak syarat yg membantutkan perniagaan bumiputera yg katanya nak dibantu utk tumbangkan peniaga cina low yat? Kalau supplier yg satu tu bagi murah takpe jugak. Ni kata peniaga, terpaksa jual 10 ke 20% lebih tinggi dr low yat. Sekali lagi, siapakah sole vendor/supplier yang diperkatakan tu? |
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Ist time dgr nama mara digital pun cam nama x glamour, nama kroni |
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supplier amik barang dekat China sana, so, supplier ada kuasa control dengan siapa dia nak bagi....nak control harga, kena control barang dulu, dekat China sana |
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Hurmmm kroni kontrol.....tak terkejut pun kalau melingkup. |
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cmf_almondpecan replied at 21-9-2017 05:20 PM
Persoalannya, kenapa peniaga2 Mall ni dikenakan syarat amik barang2 dpd satu supplier saja. Siapa su ...
Sole distributor kot.. contoh lain mcm bandwidth internet, siaran tv, etc. |
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Iol pun berfikiran sama...siapa vendor yg dpt exclusive right tu? Nak berniaga compete dgn bangsa yg ada solid networking ni kau pun kena la pandai letak harga...kalau setakat nk kayakan kroni, eloklah melingkup cepat...melayu kalau berniaga mmg sehari dua je..gah dia wajib masuk paper ada menteri bagai...tak lama tu gulung tikar
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perghhhh...
crita2 macam ni tak akan dibaca oleh simacai2....
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nk tahu kn
supplier tu bumi
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sma dgn kes kr1m dipaw mydin,
so ko paham2 je la
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x pyh tarik china masuk
asyik salahkan faktor luar je bila lingkup
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Depa dah kena bayar sewa penuh lattew. Apa apa yg gov aided mesti tak kemana. Whyyy. Sepatutnya lebih gemilang.. |
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nanti dekat pru
kerajaan umno pam lagi 10juta..hidup blik |
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Ni maruah ketuanan melayu tau... |
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Setakat jual laptop, phone dan mobile accessory mcm manalah nak survive. Aku pernah sekali aje pergi. Lepas tu pergi lowyat balik. |
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buat tu dgn niat tak baik nak jatuh kan orang kot..... tu sbb Allah tak redha.....
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cmf_almondpecan replied at 21-9-2017 05:20 PM
Persoalannya, kenapa peniaga2 Mall ni dikenakan syarat amik barang2 dpd satu supplier saja. Siapa su ...
Kompem la vendor tu kroni laknat yg mark up harga kaw kaw. Cash lah buat penyangak2 tersebut! |
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Wednesday, 9 Dec 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Mara Digital – billed as the latest hub for information technology (IT) products – has opened.
On the third floor of the Medan Mara building in Jalan Raja Laut, it features 38 kiosks and began operating yesterday.
Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob urged consumers to be “colour blind” and support the new IT mall, which was operated by bumiputras.
He said the mall was set up in line with Majlis Amanah Rakyat’s (Mara’s) objective of assisting bumiputra ventures.
“There are some nine million handphones in the country and most of the retailers are non-bumiputras,” said Ismail.
“We don’t want the bumiputras to be left behind.”
He said Malays were colour blind when they shopped.
“They don’t look at race when they choose and I hope others will patronise this mall and support it,” Ismail said at yesterday’s opening.
He cited the Low Yat Plaza in Kuala Lumpur as an example, saying that 98% of the IT retailers there were non-bumiputras while 70% of their customers were Malays.
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Post time 21-9-2017 05:05 PM
变色卡
Post time 21-9-2017 05:31 PM
