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Room for Sheng Siong to grow despite e-commerce threat

With improved earnings for 2017, Sheng Siong aims to open five new outlets per year over 2019-2020, spanning 25,000 sq ft of space in total.

THE entry of e-commerce players hasn't been quite the market disruptor for the Sheng Siong Group as expected, it seems.

Even as the local supermarket chain made its foray into China with its first overseas store in the fourth quarter of last year, it remains in a position to open even