Source: The Straits Times
For the past few weeks, Ms Roselin Khatoon’s apartment has looked less like a home and more like a warehouse.
Stocks of bottles of cookies, packs of chips and other Hari Raya snacks she had planned to sell at a Ramadan bazaar are all over her three-room Housing Board flat, which now feels like an obstacle course.
And with news last month that all bazaars would be cancelled, the quality assurance inspector at an engineering firm who is in her 50s was prepared to lose some of the $70,000 she had invested in the goods she had ordered.
But this might not now be the case, thanks to new online bazaar platform B. Halal, one of several new platforms providing a channel for Muslim consumers to buy their Ramadan and Hari Raya goods.
To be launched on Monday (April 20), the platform is an app-based listing of Hari Raya-centric businesses such as Ms Roselin’s.
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