As our cover feature details, more change is on the way. State-of-the-art malls are set to pop up all over the country, bringing a new way of shopping to the country. The sparkling TK Avenue in Tuol Kork is already proving a draw for thousands of customers, while the massive Aeon mall is hotly anticipated in the capital.
You might be asking whether this drive towards a new era of shopping is a good or bad thing? For now, I think it’s an inevitable development that symbolises rising wealth, but doesn’t mean the end of traditional values, yet. As the experts in our story say, local markets can and do coexist with malls, and Cambodia’s capital is a long way off being the mall mecca that is Bangkok.
