Are wet markets drying up?

Business slow due to 24-hour supermarkets and online grocers, say stallholders

Left and top: Wet market stallholders at the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market have been given until April next year to decide whether to stay on after nearly three years of sluggish sales. Above: The wet market at the centre is on the second fl
Wet market stallholders at the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market have been given until April next year to decide whether to stay on after nearly three years of sluggish sales. ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG
Left and top: Wet market stallholders at the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market have been given until April next year to decide whether to stay on after nearly three years of sluggish sales. Above: The wet market at the centre is on the second fl
Wet market stallholders at the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market have been given until April next year to decide whether to stay on after nearly three years of sluggish sales. ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG
Left and top: Wet market stallholders at the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market have been given until April next year to decide whether to stay on after nearly three years of sluggish sales. Above: The wet market at the centre is on the second fl
The wet market at the centre is on the second floor, and stallholders say it is less visible and accessible to older people as the elevators and escalators tend to malfunction at least once a month. ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG
Tiffany Fumiko Tay
Updated
Dec 16, 2018, 07:06 AM
Published
Dec 16, 2018, 05:00 AM
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Dotted with food stalls, the ground floor of Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market is buzzing with the breakfast crowd on a weekday morning.

But at the wet market on the floor above, the scene is quite the opposite.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on December 16, 2018, with the headline Are wet markets drying up?. Subscribe

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