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PETALING JAYA: Malls in the Klang Valley saw crowds that have been missing for months as city dwellers spent the weekends with their families and friends shopping or catching up.
With crowds at shopping malls growing bigger, sales assistants have the unenviable task of reminding patrons to observe the standard operating procedures as they attempt to minimise the risk of spreading Covid-19 at their premises.
Some retail outlets at a mall here imposed limits to enable customers to properly practice physical distancing as shoppers waited for their turn to enter the premises.
One of them, a clothing outlet with a sizable area only allowed 30 people in at any one time.
IKEA unveils its last ever catalogue as a podcast Details 15 March 2021
In December 2020, Swedish furniture manufacturers IKEA said that it would be ceasing its print catalogue completely and 2021 will mark the end of all its catalogues. Now, as a special tribute for its very last production, IKEA has turned its 2021 catalogue into a podcast. Creating 13 chapters of sound bites for its consumers, the catalogue has been uploaded on its YouTube and Spotify platforms, as well as on audiobooks.com. IKEA touts its podcast as the number one audio catalogue for stylish design inspiration. We know that by now, you’ve probably binged through every possible podcast, audio book, and every Best of 2020 playlist there is. So maybe you could use some new soothing sounds to put on while we all continue to wait for normal life to get back to. yeah, normal, the narrator explained in the introduction of the podcast. She added that the audio catal