Tag Archives: Groceries

Alfian Aripin ordered his groceries online from Redmart, “specifying to pack only Halal items”. However, when the groceries arrived, they found pork packed together with other food items! On 13 June, Alfian shared his story in a Facebook post. He also added that the delivery guy left abruptly after placing …

On 22 May, Facebook user Estelle Liu placed a PandaMart order for $259.32 worth of groceries, to be delivered from Pandamart AMK to 202 Serangoon Way (Chen Su Lan Methodist Children’s Home) on 24 May at 11:00am. However, on 24 May, the groceries never reached the Children’s home. “This delivery …

These poor riders have to collect their food in a small alley at the back and the staff just leaves it open in the rain for them to collect.

Our contributor went to Giant at Sembawang Shopping Centre to buy some items like frozen stuff, baby stuffs mainly food and drinks. When he tried to make payment using the Budget2020 Grocery Vouchers which were issued by the Ministry of Finance (MOF), the cashier said he could not use the vouchers for the full transaction.

Sheng Siong supermarket is truly impressive. After announcing an additional one month salary for its employees, it went around neighbourhoods silently giving donations at wakes out of kindness. This is setting the bar way too high for competitor NTUC FairPrice supermarket which is already being accused of raising its prices during COVID-19.

Not sure if anyone notice. NTUC groceries price seems to have gone up by about 20%. Many fresh produce usually one offer or 1 for 1 seems to have disappear. All these happened right after the new announcement that we have to be prepared that food supplies disruption. If you notice or this is worth a thought. Please share and start buying from different source. Support local small businesses too!

I can't believe that the NTUC FairPrice delivery man refused to let me open the bags to check if anything is missing.

Singapore has retained its position as the world's most expensive city, according to research by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The top five most expensive cities in the world remain unchanged from a year earlier and include, in descending order, Paris, Oslo, Zurich and Sydney. Singapore was found to be 11% more expensive than New York for basic groceries.

There has been a greater on-year increase in the prices of hawker food and groceries last year as compared to 2013, Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang said in parliament today. In a written reply to a parliamentary question, Mr Lim said the prices of hawker food increased 3% on-year in 2014, while it increased 1.9% on-year in 2013.