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Monday, August 24, 2015

Minister defends Tukar programme for retailers, owners’ fault if business failed

Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin says the failure of some Tukar retailers was due to other factors, and not the programme itself. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, August 24, 2015.Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin says the failure of some Tukar retailers was due to other factors, and not the programme itself. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, August 24, 2015.Putrajaya has defended its Small Retailer Transformation Programme (Tukar) even though some business owners who joined the scheme have lost thousands of ringgit.
Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism, Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin, said the failure of some retailers under the programme was due to other factors, such as the way they ran their businesses and how they dealt with customers.
"The ones that have not been successful are not because the programme is not good. It is because of the individuals. Because when we ran the Tukar programme, the products and the store became more beautiful and better.
“When we do business, public relations is very important. If they had used words that maybe people don't like, this is why people don't want to go, so don't blame the programme," he told reporters in Petaling Jaya today.
Hamzah said 95% of those who signed up for Tukar had become successful.
He was asked to comment on the programme following The Malaysian Insider's report today of small retailers who made losses and went into debt after signing up for Tukar.
Tukar, introduced in 2011, is aimed at modernising and enhancing the competitiveness of traditional retail stores.
A loan, plus supervision or advisory services from the ministry, are supposed to turn such stores into modern retail businesses.
The Malaysian Insider today reported on two sundry shop owners who had registered under Tukar; one, who ended up incurring debts of RM60,000 and the other, RM70,000.
These were loans taken under the programme which were spent on refurbishing their shops and buying goods wholesale from designated supermarkets.
Hamzah today added that the programme was introduced for the interests of all business owners in the country, bumiputera and non-bumiputera, to uplift their livelihoods.
He slammed The Malaysian Insider's report today, saying that those surveyed was "only 1% of those who joined Tukar".
Hamzah said Tukar was reviewed and upgraded from time to time to check on its impact.
According to the Auditor-General's Report released in April 2014, about 26% of 70 shops under Tukar had registered a decline in sales while another 14% had to fold.
The report said losses were also due to competition from other retailers in the same area.
Pemandu, the performance management delivery unit under the Prime Minister's Department, has also defended Tukar, saying that as of the end of last year, or the programme's fourth year of implementation, 1,914 stores had been transformed.
This translated to 38% of the programme's cumulative progress of reaching the targeted 5,000 stores by 2020, Pemandu said.
- TMI

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