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SINGAPORE: The unit pricing pilot programme<\/span> at supermarkets will be expanded progressively from Thursday (Oct 1) to cover more supermarket operators and a wider range of grocery items.<\/p>\n For the first time, online stores will be included, said the Competition and Consumer Commission (CCS) and the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) in a joint press release on Monday.<\/p>\n The expansion of the pilot builds on the positive consumer response to the first stage of the programme, CCS and CASE said.<\/p>\n Under the pilot, participating supermarket stores displayed the unit prices for selected grocery categories.\u00a0<\/p>\n Customers were able to see the price per unit of measurement of a product, such as per kilogram or per litre, making it easier to compare value across different product sizes and brands.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first stage of the pilot, which included supermarket chains NTUC FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Prime Supermarket, Cold Storage and Giant, ran from September to December 2025.<\/p>\n The expanded pilot will include more operators and a wider range of commonly purchased grocery items such as flour, milk, butter, snacks, soups and sauces.<\/p>\n Operators Don Don Donki and RedMart will join the pilot.\u00a0<\/p>\n NTUC FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Prime Supermarket, Don Don Donki and RedMart will commence the expanded pilot from Thursday, while Cold Storage and Giant will do so from Nov 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n The pilot will also extend to online stores for the first time, CCS and CASE said.<\/p>\n Sheng Siong and RedMart will display unit pricing for selected grocery categories on their online stores from Thursday, with other operators rolling out progressively on their respective platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: The unit pricing pilot programme at supermarkets will be expanded progressively from Thursday (Oct 1) to cover more supermarket operators and a wider range…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--416n5pCF--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2023\/05\/26\/20230519_1149022.jpg?itok=GED1EjxI","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7043,12262,17667,1357,1656,5002,488,890,2408,4053],"class_list":["post-88508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-cover","tag-expanded","tag-grocery","tag-items","tag-oct","tag-operators","tag-pilot","tag-pricing","tag-supermarket","tag-unit","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88508","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=88508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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