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We all dread grocery shopping, but FairPrice Online is a website that seeks to help parents out with that.
1. A Lack Of Time
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One of the most precious things that we have a limited amount to give out is time. It’s something that we’re placing a lot more value in, especially in our fast-paced Singaporean society!
The majority of us will work until 6pm every weekday, and once we’re done, we’ll grab our kids from childcare and then head home afterwards.
Depending on where your childcare is, you should reach home at around 7pm to 7:30pm. After that it’s usually dinnertime, then spending some quality time with your family, and finally heading to bed after that.
If our schedules are structured that way, the only time where we’ll be free to do grocery shopping is over the weekend!
FairPrice Online Solution: If only there was a way to help you save your precious time… oh wait, there is!
We all know about NTUC FairPrice; we’ve probably grown up alongside them and went shopping there with our parents when we were kids too. They, too, have changed and grown up alongside us as shopping with them now is not just limited to walking down to their outlets!
They’ve seen and understood the problems and issues that we parents are facing – time is important, and the more time we’re able to free up, the happier we’ll be!
We’re now able to shop online with FairPrice, and they deliver straight to our doorstep.
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2. Crazy Queues
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Since weekends are usually the only times when we’re free to buy groceries, we can expect the same for other parents too! No matter what time we go to the supermarket, it’ll be insanely crowded, which means the queues to pay for our stuff will be pretty crazy too.
Long queues tie in to our first point, where we’re already fighting against time and are trying to maximise what little time we have to spend on other things that are more fruitful. Pretty sure that we can agree that spending around 10 – 15 minutes waiting in line with a trolley stuffed to the brim, and tired and cranky kids doesn’t sound that fruitful!
FairPrice Online Solution: No queues await you online, and you’ll be saving a ton of time and sanity when you don’t have to wait forever to pay for your items!
For those who stay within walking distance of a FairPrice outlet and choose not to use their home delivery, you can always do their Click & Collect option with orders totalling $29 and above, where you order the items online and choose your preferred date, time, and store to collect them at!
Cutting out 40 mins of grocery shopping per week means we’ll be saving slightly more than 2.5 hours per month. When you look at it for the whole year, it’s a whopping 32 hours! That’s more than an entire day!
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3. Lugging Bulky Items Home
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After we’ve bought our groceries and baby essentials, the next part of our journey is transporting our haul back home! For the lucky few who live right above a supermarket, it’s not that difficult or tiring, but for the rest of us who either needs to take a car back, walk a distance, or take public transport back home, it’s more time and energy that’s spent.
Lugging a bunch of diapers and formulas, in addition to veggies, canned food, fruits, meat, washing detergent, and anything else that you’ve bought back home can be compared to doing some heavy lifting in the gym!
FairPrice Online Solution: As mentioned before, FairPrice Online does home delivery too, and it’s free of charge with orders totalling $59 and above, and trust me, you’ll definitely hit that amount when you’re ordering for a week or two of groceries.
What’s more, you can specify the date and time for them to come by your home and deliver your items. It’s all about convenience for us parents!
Just think about it – we won’t need to spend time travelling to-and-fro, which frees up our precious time, and for those of us who drive, save a bit more on petrol. All these small gains add up the more we do it!
Best of all, no more lugging heavy and bulky grocery bags back home!
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4. Savings
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One thing I realised when grocery shopping is that it’s quite hard to find items which are discounted or on sale. Baby essentials are rather expensive and we’re always on the lookout for a good deal when it comes to them, and the easier it is to get to them, the better!
FairPrice Online Solution: For you parents who’re looking for some great deals on essential baby items, look no further than Fairprice Online! They’ve got over 30 baby brands for you to choose from on their website, so all your needs will be well covered.
They’ve got quite a few sales going on for baby essentials and other products, and they’re all easily found on their site – with deals of up to 80% off on selected items!
Currently, they’ve got an Online Baby Fair from 1 to 14 March 2018 and here are examples of the deals they’ve got for us:
To see their whole list of deals, visit their website here.
FairPrice Online Babymoji Contest!
Coinciding with their Online Baby Fair, they’re giving away $100 worth of Shopping Credits to 3 winners which will run from now till 14 March! Check out the contest details here.
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