Shopkeepers urged to display ‘within limits'
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Shop displays products beyond its allotted business perimeters 

A number of shops in various commercial complexes are still flouting the regulation by displaying their products at car parking spaces, consumers said. They said some shops utilised the spaces as extended kitchens to clean their dirty plates, thus depriving the public of valuable parking space.

The relevant authority, the Town and Country Planning Department had earlier stated that parking spaces should not be used to display products.

At one shop in Gadong, the establishment even stationed a sales attendant to serve customers at the parking space.

"The use of parking spaces for display purposes would not only deprive the public of parking spaces but may also even pose a fire hazard," said an observer.

"Furthermore, the products are fire prone and could help spread fire quickly, apart from becoming eyesores."

Last month in Kuala Belait, the authorities warned shops and supermarkets not to display their goods beyond the perimeters of their business premises.

The measure was taken was to ensure that emergency and exit lanes are not blocked in cases of emergency such as fire.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin