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Mr Ng Chee Meng, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, said: “Keeping grocery bills manageable is one way NTUC advances our social mission to support workers and Singaporeans. In particular for lower-income households, with the discount doubled, this will add up to meaningful savings over time.<\/span><\/p>\n “Through our impact businesses like FairPrice Group, more than S$10 million in savings have been provided to CHAS Blue and Orange cardholders this year, and we want to do more,” he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “We will continue working with our partners to extend practical support that makes a real difference, and to help workers and Singaporeans stretch their dollar further where it matters most.”<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this year, FairPrice froze prices on more than 500 daily essentials, including housebrand rice, cooking oil, fresh and frozen meat, and vegetables, from Jun 1 to Aug 31.<\/p>\n It also offered National Day return vouchers for shoppers who spent at least S$61 in a single receipt and ran promotions offering discounts of up to 36 per cent on housebrand essentials earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr Ng Chee Meng, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, said: “Keeping grocery bills manageable is one way NTUC advances our social mission to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--ttk-giZE--\/c_crop,h_896,w_1594,x_5,y_99\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2023\/05\/08\/jav_9950.jpg?itok=_ZOApaRp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7474,4605,25485,9395,790,2947,8543,8968],"class_list":["post-81642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-blue","tag-brings","tag-cardholders","tag-chas","tag-discount","tag-fairprice","tag-jan","tag-orange","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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