A LONE bright spot shines amid the gloom of a worsening economy: The prices of food commodities will soon fall. Global prices of wheat, oil, sugar and other essentials started falling in June; their trickle-down effects will be felt by shoppers in the next few weeks.

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But electricity, bus fare and phone charges rising.

How much can one eat? The incessant increase in other things are killing the below average.

Geylang prices increase or not?

What kind of food? The melamine-contaminated variety?

char siew rice here just up 50cents. don't think they will reduce.

LPPL. Say all you want. Ultimately, consumers are the ones carrying those baggages of cost.

#6 the _ultimate
Complain to CASE that the stalls are profiteering. CASE cannot touch the big guns but they definitely can deal with the small potatoes.

#4
Food prices in Geylang are stable la. Come for a good meal with lots of happenings.

Geylang price stable?

Joking. The calculating hawkers cut the rice and each item portions to a few. A reap off. It is let you eat not full and yet won't let you die of hunger kind of business, lah. So top up with water loh before going to bed.

I go to the temple with $2 for the buffet in aircon marble floor dining hall. Eat all you can with desserts thrown in. It is good value for $2.

When will the charitable organizations, political parties, etc, worth their salt will rent the unwanted stalls in hawker centres [in HDB heartlands] to stir the gruel and offer it free of charge to the needy?