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Groceries Shopping
By Money Sick | December 9, 2007
Royalty Rewards
At Shop N Save, you spent S$10 and you get a stamp. Collect 12 stickers and you get S$6 voucher. That was a year ago. This year, they had changed their policy. You have to spend S$15 in order to get a stickers. Collect 12 stickers for the particular month and you get S$9 voucher.
Incentives Attract
This is indeed saving. Imagine I buy the same things at Cold storage or NTUC, I would not have cashback like that. At NTUC Fairprice, I get to accumulate points. Rebates or points accumulated can be used to exchange for shopping vouchers or other things. These are the things that attracted me to these store. They are near my home too.
Money is not the only Motivator
That does not mean that I don’t shop at Cold Storage. I love cold storage. They are so much better than Shop N Save and NTUC. Clean, spacious, nice to shop — just that there are no incentives there. But I love to buy hot dogs and Sushi from Cold Storage.
Where to buy frogs?
I had heard of Sheng Shiong and Giant. They are not that near my home. I need to take bus and even MRT to go these places. In Woodlands, there are time where I passed by Sheng Shiong Supermarket, at Marsiling and Causeway. But I do not like to enter Sheng Shiong. It is very cramp and you can smell ‘stale air’ as you passed by these places. The only thing which I like about Sheng Shiong is their live frogs. They sell cheap live frogs.
This is Sheng Shiong Supermarket at Causeway.
Comfort or Cheap?
This was what I had to squeeze my way through when I walked that pathway last month. On the left is Sheng Shiong Supermarket. The stench was very strong upon passing by the store. I went inside the store twice, some years back. That was because Richard wanted to take a look at it. I would not want to go there to shop if I have a choice. However, their things are known to be cheap. If I want to have pleasure shopping, I definitely will not go there, but if I want to get my particular thing there — “grab and go”, I would go there to buy live frogs.
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January 18th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
[...] We went back by taxi. On the way, we saw Chinese New Year Flowers Sale outside Ten Mile Junction. Sheng Shiong Supermarket there seem crowded too. I went there a few times, before Sheng Shiong Supermarket was there, and I [...]
January 31st, 2008 at 4:56 am
[...] told us to stop wasting money. Buy bird’s nest, buy tonic and buy Chinese New Year food from NTUC Fairprice or Shop & Save is definitely cheaper and save you more money for other things than buying [...]