Black Friday sale success sparks hope for stores
Cash registers rang steadily last weekend as retail stores in Singapore saw more shoppers stream in during the annual Black Friday sale.
Shoppers queue overnight to snap up bargains on Black Friday
SINGAPORE - Bargain-hunting shoppers armed with sleeping bags, tables and foldable chairs were settling in for a long night outside Robinsons' Orchard Street store on Thursday (Nov 28) to ensure...
Online shoppers all set for Singles Day frenzy
Bride-to-be Lynn Yang has been planning for this year's Singles Day sale for the past five months.
Checking into Singapore hotels to be a breeze with automation
Checking into a hotel can be a tedious process involving hotel staff manually examining documents, but a new automated system under way here promises to get guests their room keys much faster.
Sweet online booking deals leave bitter taste
A Straits Times check of more than 20 hotel and airline booking sites found opaque pricing on most of the deals.
DFS offers to help retrenched staff find other jobs
Travel retailer DFS Group, which surprised workers at its Scotts Road shop last week by asking them to go immediately, is now offering them help to get another job.
Give pricing guidelines more teeth, say experts
Harsher penalties are needed to give more teeth to the recent price transparency guidelines proposed by the competition watchdog, said industry experts.
Travel sites' dodgy practices: Experts say harsher penalties will give more weight to proposed guidelines
One expert also suggested consumers should be made more aware of what to look out for when making purchases online.
Unified cashless payment system rolled out at 500 hawker stalls across Singapore
Many hawker patrons will now have an easier time paying for their dishes without fumbling with notes and coins, or figuring out which card they can use to make payments.
Raffles Hotel rolls out new tech as part of productivity push
Guests at posh Raffles Hotel can now bypass the butler service and order food, spa sessions and other treats with a click on a tablet that comes with the room.