New SPH site offers shoppers retail, F&B promotion codes and discounts

Shop For Good aims to help stimulate the economy with promotional code and voucher listings from brands and eateries.
Shop For Good aims to help stimulate the economy with promotional code and voucher listings from brands and eateries. PHOTO: SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS

A new e-commerce platform offering shoppers promotional codes and discounts for their favourite brands and eateries has been launched by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).

The Shop For Good online platform aims to help businesses and consumers stimulate the economy, SPH said last Friday.

It provides listings of promotional codes and discount vouchers from food and beverage (F&B), retail and lifestyle merchants to consumers.

SPH deputy chief executive Anthony Tan said: "We hope to rally our readers to help local businesses tide over these difficult times. SPH is happy to use our network, through Shop For Good, as a catalyst for our retail and service sectors to regain momentum."

One of the eateries found on the site is Fill A Pita. The Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant in the Central Business District has taken a 90 per cent to 95 per cent hit to its lunch dine-in earnings after more people started working from home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Its director Ibrahim Khater said: "As we're all going through a difficult time, we are participating in Shop For Good to offer our customers great value deals to allow them to dine at their favourite restaurants at a better price."

He added: "We share the same vision of thinking of the customer first."

Apart from Fill A Pita, eateries such as Anglo Indian Cafe & Bar and BTM Mussels & Bar, retail brands including Cath Kidston, Pedro and Dorothy Perkins, as well as lifestyle merchants Ning Foot & Back Spa and Pink Parlour, have also joined the platform.

Users can find vouchers on the site by region or category, or search for their favourite names.

The vouchers can be bought for both personal use as well as giving away to friends and family.

Enterprises that want to list their deals as part of the campaign can do so by writing in to sfgmerchant@sph.com.sg from now until Aug 31.

Anglo Indian Cafe & Bar's managing director Vinod Jhakmola said that the food and beverage sector has been one of the hardest hit due to the pandemic.

"The fact that we are getting a complimentary listing and have partnered Shop For Good for voucher sales makes it even more appealing for us," he said.

"We are looking for business and we would like to reach out to both new and existing patrons of Anglo Indian Cafe & Bar."

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 05, 2020, with the headline New SPH site offers shoppers retail, F&B promotion codes and discounts. Subscribe