Why Hong Kong supermarkets dipping into the public till for coronavirus relief is distasteful

When the government decided to compel the city’s two supermarket chains to give shoppers discounts in return for tapping deeply into the Employment Support Scheme, the government’s Covid-19 wage subsidy programme, it elicited some mirthless laughs. The city’s two main supermarket chains haven’t been known for their generosity. Rather, it’s their spectacular greed that puts them among the first to come to mind whenever anticompetitive behaviour in Hong Kong is discussed. A global public health…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103067/why-hong-kong-supermarkets-dipping-public-till-coronavirus-relief