On
the 4th day of our activity, Ching
Yee and i went to an art material shop, which is Venus Art to do an interview
with the shop owner. Venus art is located in the China Town of Petaling Street.
Venus art was started in 1969, it has
been more than 40 years since opening. The location of Venus art also went
through a process of transfer, just like many other shops in the area.
According to the owner of Venus Art, the founder of this business, who is also
his father, decided to have a business of art material because he was thinking
of to sell something special.
However, the shop is going to end its
business by the end of May. Many of their customer feel sad towards this,
especially for the regular customer of Venus Art. During our interview at Venus
Art, there were two customers asked about the closing of shop when they made
their payment at the counter. We heard by ourselves that the customers really
felt bad when they knew the business is about to come to an end.
Even though I’m not good at arts, but
I too feel the same like the customers. I know it is not easy for Venus Art
that have went through a lot of things and circumstance to make it until today.
Although the owner didn’t speak his feeling out by words, we still can sense
his emotion through the way he talks.
According to the owner, the reason
that they decided to end their business is because of the implementation of GST. It makes me
to think of is that the effect of GST such major? Will the implementation of GST cause more and
more old shops to close because of the shop owner can’t take the high costing
and paper work anymore? There was no answer for my question, but what I can see
is the closing if old shop right after GST was implemented that really happen, not just
at Petaling Street, but at everywhere. I hope there’ll be a solution or a
helping method before everything goes really bad.
# Father and son
# Founder and Owner
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