Coronavirus: Ramadan bazaar sellers turn to online platforms to clear stock and recoup losses

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Coronavirus: Ramadan bazaar sellers turn to online platforms to clear stock and recoup losses
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SINGAPORE - For the past few weeks, Ms Roselin Khatoon's apartment has looked less like a home and more like a warehouse.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - For the past few weeks, Ms Roselin Khatoon's apartment has looked less like a home and more like a warehouse.

To be launched on Monday , the platform is an app-based listing of Hari Raya-centric businesses such as Ms Roselin's. As part of Singapore's circuit breaker measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, events such as the bazaars, which would see a large numbers of people congregating, will not be allowed to take place.

Platforms such as B.Halal, with its free listing and variety show star power, are determined to stand apart from the rest. The portal, which went live on April 13 and has almost 50 merchants listed, is the brainchild of Mr Khairul Yunos, 30, and his two partners.He told The Straits Times that besides merchants, community partners can also create accounts to upload their Ramadan projects, such as donation drives and distribution of necessities to their needy beneficiaries.

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