Charity groceries, vendors
there is no doubt that the imbalance in the demographics is a problem and concern to every conscience and living thought, especially in the absence of any radical solutions.
the public authority for manpower (pam) may be the only government agency concerned by the situation by virtue of being informed of the real numbers and the extent of the disaster, but its powers are not absolute, and it needs support from those who stand with it.
there is considerable pressure on pam not only to keep the situation as it is but push it by some to agree to increase the imbalance in order to achieve greater material benefits, commercially and from the real estate angle, and our words here do not mean agreeing to the non-practical proposals submitted by mp safa’a al-hashem.
i say this, although as a businessman i will be affected by the reduction of the population, the public interest is more important, especially since the amendment of the demographic structure will have greater financial and security benefits in the future.
why do we need armies of porters and cleaners at our airports, cooperative societies, schools, ministries, and markets?
what is our real need, for example, to have ice cream vendors moving in residential areas since all that they do is help obstruct traffic and add to this their inhuman and unhealthy working conditions, especially during the summer season? what they are selling can often be injurious to health, in addition to causing harm to security and social issues?
what is the actual need of the country for the ridiculous number of mobile groceries whose presence is becoming frightening especially for those who ‘shuttle’ between saudi arabia and kuwait? there is no equivalent for this behavior for a country that respects itself. most of what, the grocery phenomenon is deplorable from the hygienic point of view.
some of these mobile groceries have switched to coffee shops, smoking hookahs, unacceptable gathering points and the accumulation of garbage around them, especially since it is easy to replace hundreds, if not all of them, by improving service at gas stations.
the presence of a large number of groceries near each other eliminates their usefulness in the first place, and the real benefit may lie in trading residences of workers to manage them, or benefit from the sale or lease of commercial licenses to them while the owners who are the citizens do not know anything about them.
the situation has also recently worsened with the entry of some charity associations who obtain permits to open mobile groceries in commercial and industrial areas, and the obstacles they impose to traffic and unfair competition for shop owners and it is not known if the workers in these groceries have residence permits or health certificates.
is there really a need for so many of these groceries, including mobile groceries?
