SMU student Lim Yi Jun has set up “90s – The Candy Studio”, a social enterprise hiring hearing-impaired staff, with two of her friends. Ms Lim commented that the declining trend of "mamak shops" (convenience stores) meant that these sweets were becoming endangered; hence their decision to bring them back for old times' sake. While sales at its Bugis outlet is healthy thanks to the high human traffic, business at *SCAPE, which started on 20 October this year, has been quite slow. Ms Lim attributes this to the outlet being relatively new, as well as the presence of an indirect competitor, Sticky candy, just across the road in Cineleisure Orchard. She thinks sales will pick up in a few more months.
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The Business Times
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