Singapore News - Supermarket chain FairPrice will absorb the upcoming 1 percentage point increase in GST for some daily essentials for the first half of 2024, in what the company said was an effort to cushion the tax hike’s impact for consumers. The scheme, which will offset the tax hike. Read more at www.tnp.sg
In its tell-all book The Price of Being Fair, FairPrice Group chronicles its journey from being an unwanted player in malls to becoming a retailer with a core social mission of moderating the cost of living for all in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Melanie Oliveiro speaks to Vipul Chawla, Group Chief Executive Officer at FairPrice Group & Sue-Ann Chia, co-editor and author of 'The Price of Being Fair'. The book celebrates Fair Price Group’s 50th anniversary, and gives readers access to its people and archives, and the crises FairPrice has had to navigate
SINGAPORE: One of the first things Vipul Chawla did when he joined FairPrice Group as its chief executive in 2022 was to take a stroll in a FairPrice supermarket, where he struck up a conversation with an elderly customer.