{"id":9510,"date":"2021-05-14T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2021-05-14T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T11:51:43","slug":"make-bulk-purchases-reduce-daily-visits-to-markets-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9510","title":{"rendered":"Make bulk purchases, reduce daily visits to markets &#8211; CAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GEORGE TOWN, May 14 \u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) today called on all Malaysian consumers to refrain from going to the market on a daily basis\u00a0as the country is still\u00a0battling\u00a0the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, CAP education officer N.V. Subbarow has urged consumers to plan\u00a0the purchase of items that can be stored in advance so that there is no necessity to go to the market or supermarket every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png\" alt=\"daily\" class=\"wp-image-9511\" width=\"486\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png 583w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22-184x100.png 184w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22-350x190.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Consumers should plan to purchase items for three or four days of use. Hundreds of consumers go to markets and supermarkets every day. The COVID-19 infectivity can be curbed if this is controlled,&#8221; he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said a CAP survey found consumers who go to the market every day to buy vegetables and other ingredients spend hours there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCAP would like to urge Malaysian consumers to stop this daily buying culture,\u201d he said, adding that&nbsp;Malaysians should be disciplined and practice self-control&nbsp;to help the government in its efforts to curb&nbsp;the spread of the virus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news.php?id=1961643\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGE TOWN, May 14 \u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) today called on all Malaysian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22-300x163.png",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-19.49.22.png",583,316,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}