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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ARRANGEMENT WITH RELA FOR PATROLS OF KK MARTS, WHICH WAS REPORTED ON TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2013?

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11 March 2016

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WHEN CRIMINALS SEE THIS, THEY SEE A PLACE TO ROB.

There were 600 robberies in the past 5 years. Now, KK Super marts are protected by Rela personnel.

THIS IS THE SAFEST KK SUPER MART IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY! Yes, it’s inside KLIA2, on Level 1.

Can you imagine several mat rempit riding all the way to KLIA2, robbing this KK Super Mart branch, and riding back to KL?

We know that many of them are not exactly intelligent but they’re not this stupid.

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KK Group founder and chairman Datuk Dr Chai Kee Kan “With 600 robberies at our stores in the past five years, it’s all the more crucial to have Rela personnel around to fend off potential robbers.” 

WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG TO COME TO THIS SOLUTION?

Will 7-Eleven ask for Rela’s protection, too?

Star

Tuesday December 10, 2013 MYT 7:22:31 AM

Rela members to patrol KK marts after spate of robberies at outlets

KUALA LUMPUR: Patrons of KK Super Marts can breathe a sigh of relief as Rela members will be patrolling the premises at 10 of its outlets in the Klang Valley following a spate of robberies at its outlets over the past five years.

KK Group founder and chairman Datuk Dr Chai Kee Kan said the company would be working together with Rela to prevent crimes in the premises.

“With 600 robberies at our stores in the past five years, it’s all the more crucial to have Rela personnel around to fend off potential robbers,” said Chai.

He added that the company had identified 10 outlets in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur for this security spruce up.

The outlets in these areas recorded the highest frequency of robbery incidents compared to other places.

“A Rela personnel will be stationed from 10pm to 7am at each of these hotspots to assist in crime prevention,” said Chai, adding that the initiative would take effect in the next week or two.

Rela members to patrol KK marts after spate of robberies at outlets

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He added that he had instructed KK Supermart’s security team to guard its worst-hit outlets, but conceded that since they are unarmed, they would be powerless in the event of a robbery.

“If the robber has a knife, how can you defend yourself? Only the police (can),” he said.

Malaysiakini

Koh Jun Lin & Zulaikha Zulkifli 12:50PM Dec 23, 2012

Police are not doing enough to prevent robberies at KK Supermart outlets despite assurances that it would post plainclothes police at outlets that are prone to robbery, said one of the chain’s field managers.

Danish Chai, who is in charge of outlets surrounding Gombak, said the robberies continue despite assurances from Setapak police, even after one of the alleged robbers was shot dead recently.

“I think the police not taking serious action. The robberies are still happening although they said they will send their people to stand-by there, but still I think they have not taken any action.

“One of the robbers was injured and then escaped. Until now we have not received no news of the escaped one,” he said when contacted on Friday.

He was referring to an incident on Dec 17 where – according to media reports – alleged robbers were leaving after a heist at the Rampai Business Park outlet when they were confronted by the police.

One suspect reportedly charged at the police with a machete and was shot dead on the spot. The other is believed to be wounded but still at large after the 4.30am incident.

However, robberies continue to occur in the area, including both of the chain’s outlets in Wangsa Maju on Friday.

Cops not doing enough, says KK Supermart manager

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Malaysian Insider

Koh Jun Lin & Zulaikha Zulkifli 8:03AM Dec 22, 2012

On Wednesday, KK Supermart Holdings Sdn Bhd had reportedly told reporters that its convenience store chain suffered a whopping 134 criminal cases a year, half of which were robberies.

One might imagine frequent armed hold-ups to be disturbing, but KK Supermart staff member Hasem Magrabali (right) is nevertheless unfazed despite personally facing at least 10 such incidents over his two years at KK Supermart.

“I am not afraid. Why should I be scared? We are going to die someday anyway,” he said when met at his workplace along Jalan Besar, Serdang – one of the frequently hit 24-hour stores.

However, first-time KK Supermart robbery victim Hanifa Wirae said she was shocked and traumatised by her ordeal, which occurred only two days ago.

“It was my first time. I’m now scared whenever I’m in charge of the cashier’s counter,” said the supervisor at the store outlet in Jalan Metro Wangsa, Wangsa Maju.

Unfazed despite 10 robberies in two years

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Star

Thursday December 20, 2012

One KK Mart outlet held up every 31 hours

KUALA LUMPUR: The operator of 24-hour convenience store KK Mart is seeing a 400% increase in robberies at its outlets nationwide – an average of one outlet robbed every 31 hours.

General manager Hooi Weng Kheong said 56 robberies in 82 of their outlets were recorded last year.

After the chain expanded to 127 outlets this year, the number of cases rose to 217 as of Dec 17.

Hooi describes the figure as “alarming and scary” as KK mart has incurred losses of over a million ringgit since 2008.

“Even more terrifying is the danger to our 1,300 staff and customers as the robbers were usually armed,” he said at a press conference held at Wisma KK in Desa Petaling yesterday.

Over the past four years, at least 20 KK Mart employees had suffered injuries during such robberies. Three have been hospitalised for serious wounds.

One KK Mart outlet held up every 31 hours

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Sundaily

Convenience store chain robbed 217 times this year

A video grab taken from the surveillance camera showing the botched robbery at KK Mart in Wangsa Maju on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 18, 2012): Since early this year, a 24-hour convenience store chain has been robbed 217 times.

Apart from its three outlets in Malacca, Seremban and Kuching, the bulk of the company’s 127 stores are in the Klang Valley.
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KK Supermart general manager Hooi Weng Kheong said today that the growth of the company from 31 outlets four years ago to its current number also saw a rise in crimes affecting its business.

He said that out of 800 cases since 2008 involving the outlet where more than RM1 million was lost, about half were robberies while the rest were cases of shoplifting and theft by its staff.

He said 20 staff manning the affected stores were injured in the cases reported over the years.

Convenience store chain robbed 217 times this year

KK SUPER MART is the flagship business of the Group. Established since 2001 and was Founded by Dato’ Dr KK Chai who viewed retailing in daily essentials and necessities as an evergreen means for a livelihood then. Development in our country hastened sophistication within our discerning society, created a hectic lifestyle and lengthened wakening hours in the push for material gains and emotional pleasures so much so the only time left for family life is the weekends but sad to say most of which are spent at departmental stores or hypermarket shopping for grocery instead of taking them to the open and enjoy family intimacy with Mother Nature.

Visionary Dato’ Dr KK Chai took on the social responsibility in availing such time for the rakyat and their family by creating long 24-hrs grocery shopping hours in the form KK SUPER MART that are conveniently accessible even in the wee hours of the morning.

The first KK SUPERMART & SUPERSTORE SDN BHD (KK SUPER MART) has its humble beginning in June 2001 occupying only the ground floor of a shop-house in Kuchai Entrepreneurs’ Park, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama in Kuala Lumpur. By mid of 2011, KK SUPER MART has established 70 outlets and mainly located at the center of Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley and also expanded to other states like Malacca and still growing and expanding rapidly.

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