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Crowds brave the rain on Chinese New Year Eve, flock to Chinatown for last-minute shopping
Getting huat from the rain.
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Despite the rainy weather, crowds flocked to the Chinatown Chinese New Year Market on the evening of Jan. 28, 2025, New Year's Eve, to do some frantic last-minute shopping.
Some may have been tempted by the slashed prices and discounts on offer.
According to 8world, members of the public were rushing down to buy goodies as early as 6pm.
The rain certainly tempered the crowds, though many still turned up to do some shopping, brollies in hand.
One stall owner said that half the crowd at the Chinatown market was made up of tourists, while the other half consisted of Singaporeans:
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Prices were slashed due to thinner crowds
According to 8world, some vendors struggled to sell off all their goods due to the reduced crowds in the days prior to CNY Eve, after days of gloom and wet weather.
Some cut their prices at the last minute to mitigate losses.
One vendor told a Channel 8 reporter who went down to the scene that he brought fewer goods in anticipation of the lower crowds.
He also said that he did not raise the prices of the goods so that they could sell out.
Some vendors, however, claimed that they did not reduce the volume of goods for sale and thus were left with a lot of goods unsold.
Many of those at Chinatown were apparently only browsing and window-shopping.
Only some people were purchasing goods, making it harder for the stall owners to sell off their stock and recoup costs.
A chestnut stall owner told Mothership that he would be selling off the remainder of his goods via an online sale after the market closed up.
Top photo from Mothership reader.
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