Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, placing a 'I support Retail Price Watch Group' sign at a hawker stall in March. Mr Lee is the chairman of RPWG, which was started in February to keep tabs on excessive price increases of daily necessities. -- ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
SOME cooked-food hawkers who pledged about two months ago to hold their prices for six months are finding themselves in a pickle, now that their ingredients cost more.
With prices of meat, vegetables and oil up by as much as 10 per cent in recent months, they say it has become harder to keep their prices at the current level.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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