First Time at MARA Digital

This article was originally written in August 2016

MARA Digital was launched in a big fanfare, dubbed at the Low Yat killer. I suspect it was hastily planned, after there was an incident at Low Yat. And the Menteri trying to prove that Low Yat Plaza was just a flook and given the right resources, there could be another IT hub in town. And his vision was for the business to be controlled by Bumiputera.

This was almost about it ....So, after almost a year after the launch, I went to have a look.

And it was lame! I wanted to look for a new mouse, but they couldn't give me what I wanted. I wanted a gaming mouse from Razer. One of the vendor even pretended that he never heard of the brand! OMG!

The shops occupied one of the middle floors, and I was done after 10 minutes. It was that bad. I ended up spending more time at Permata Complex next door afterwards. And there were even more selection of hand phones there!

I don't think that MARA Digital will be anything near a success. With news that the stock was controlled by a single supplier - to make sure that the stock were all "original" - you could already see the corruption and monopoly there. Business will not prosper with such control, and I predict that it would die a slow death.