{"id":93772,"date":"2026-10-17T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93772"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:56:58","slug":"consumers-urged-not-to-overbuy-n95-masks-major-retailers-are-actively-replenishing-stocks-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93772","title":{"rendered":"Consumers urged not to overbuy N95 masks; major retailers are &#8216;actively replenishing&#8217; stocks: CASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Consumers should also be careful when buying masks and air purifiers from the secondary market &#8211; including on social media platforms &#8211; as the sellers often cannot be verified, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Those who want to buy the items online should only buy from e-commerce platforms such as Shopee and Lazada, as CASE has worked with them to put in place measures to verify merchants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avoid deals that are too good to be true on the internet, as these could be scams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are strongly encouraged to use the Price Kaki app to monitor and update the prices of haze-related products so that people can compare prices across retailers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/n95-masks-stock-shortage-haze-case-6468201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers should also be careful when buying masks and air purifiers from the secondary market &#8211; including on social media platforms &#8211; as the sellers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--ghKE73ol--\/c_crop,h_540,w_960,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/file-photo--various-n95-respiration-masks-at-a-laboratory-of-3m--which-has-been-contracted-by-the-u-s--government-to-produce-extra-masks-in-response-to-the-country-s-novel-coronavirus-outbreak--in-map-1_0.jpg?itok=1YYIKEL5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3578,596,7886,1406,11681,28375,31846,31847,712,15257,8986],"class_list":["post-93772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-actively","tag-case","tag-consumers","tag-major","tag-masks","tag-n95","tag-overbuy","tag-replenishing","tag-retailers","tag-stocks","tag-urged","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93772","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=93772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}