when you're thinking that Singaporeans have bad manners, i can tell you otherwise. having to work in one of tourist's popular hangouts like Bugis (other than Orchard), i believe i have seen quite a great deal but more to come!
tourists from countries like China, Vietnam, Indonesia and maybe Philippines, they harbour horrible tourists ethics. not only they made me changed my mind about Singapore's infamous kiasuism, i basically HATED to service them.
maybe they have different cultures, and also there's a huge language barrier, they refuses to communicate with us even if English is supposedly to be a universal language. like today, theVietnamese seriously put me off totally.
you think only Singaporeans are kiasu?? man! these Vietnamese can prove otherwise! perhaps Gior in Vietnam and/or Philippines were priced like Levi's (that's what i've heard), so when they come here, it would be like Levi's on a closing-down sale. but then again, they don't seem to buy anything that don't have sale here! they'll mostly grabbed the cheapest item in store - S$5 Crew Neck Tees. and to them it's really CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP! i mean in Singapore-style, "wah lau, branded Giordano Tees eh! S$5 only! plus the brand name on the sleeve, EVERYBODY can tell it's branded!! good buy, must buy!" in addition, when they purchased 10 Crew Neck Tees, they'll request for medium-sized bags and 10 other smaller bags. and if they happen to know we give free gift boxes, they would request as many as the items as well. "pack separately! for our friends!" they would exclaimed.
worse still, they would LITERALLY messed up your whole collections of tops, totally determined to search for the size they wanted. they don't care if it would probably make their search tougher if the place is not neat, they seemed to enjoy "digging". even if we request to help them source for the size they wanted, they don't wish to acknowledge our presence. in fact, they would happily continue their "treasure hunt" and talked loudly to their friends, as if they entered a disco pub.
at least Filipinas and Indonesians are much nicer crowd. we can communicate even though we do meet some who also enjoys treasure-hunting. but still, i do feel that it would be best to sometimes leave them alone rather than serve them coz', they don't really mind even if there's no service.
so seriously, why only condemned our own Singaporeans when everyone in the world react the same way to "SALEs"? as long as the item is of a good deal, the price is reasonably cheaper, grab lah! then buy them at original prices meh? c'mon, no one, not even the ang mohs, are that dumb to only buy stuff at usual prices.
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