Hypermarket Price Slash?

As per what Domestic Trade Minister Shahril Ahmad said, hypermarket will start a series of price slash for their items and hope many will follow their lead by slashing their respective prices. What do you all out there think of this 'slogan'?

For me I think it's a totally waste of time and effort. No matter how these hypermarket reduce their prices would not be much help to many of us out here. We will only go to hypermarket probably once a week or even once every fortnight. Let say all price slash by half, not much we would actually save from these shopping trip.

Whereas the real culprit that should reduce their prices are those interacting with public on a daily basis like hawkers, food & beverages, transportations, electricity, water and many more. Why don't Shahril ask these firms to reduce their prices first. That's the one thing I don't think many of us realise out here, which is actually contributed to majority of our monthly expenses.

So for him to say price slash in hypermarket will help, I don't think it's that simple. Unless those related field of supplies reduce their prices too, I don't think it will affect much of our daily life, be it 50% off, 70% off or even higher. The most sensible and effective way is to force those, especially hawkers to reduce their selling price or else it will only be waste of time and effort!