recently, i had to purchase some photo frames for work. i used to purchase them from the popular across my office but it has sinced moved out. feeling lazy to make a detour to toa payoh to buy, my colleague suggested this traditional shop along a row of shophouses nearby that still makes frames by hand.
in the era that most things are made in factories to enjoy economies of scale, it is quite nice to see that such small shops still exist. entering the shop, we saw two men in their 50s working away on some frames using hand tools. we proceed to making our orders only to find out that the material we chose was not the usual ones my company picks. apparently some of our staff do frames there regularly, and after the owner found out where we were from, he immediately told us we picked the wrong type of frames.
this kind of service, you will never get from big scale retailers, such as popular. not that their service isn't good, but their business is just not built to provide such level of service.
as we walk away happily, a saddening thought came to my mind. how many of us these days would go into such jobs, in this case, i can hardly imagine any young person who would want to make frames like these two uncles for their career. these days, we are all looking for either high paying, comfortable environment or cool sounding jobs.
as the country progresses, we can only accept such losses are inevitable.
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