Siao. Already close. Who will pay to buy for a failed business
Did they buy the premise or they rent the premise?
Actually if their business good that time they never buy over the shop from the landlord then it is a bit shortsighted.
My aunt knows a lot of hardware store in the shophouses along Geylang big road and near Kallang MRT there. Some of the towkays very smart, they early bought the shop from their landlord when their business was very good in the early days 1970s-1990. Now really they kiaoka relak one side liaoz.
Sometimes it is a moment of flash which decides your fate/future - you decide to buy, you dump your profits into the shop and the shop is yours liao. Now you can see how much is a shophouse in lavender and duxton there, ma yun's wife will earn big big.