Cashless payment technology could not have come at a better time.
With shared surfaces being one avenue for COVID-19 transmission, switching to cashless payment could reduce infections and consequently prevent an outbreak.
What’s more, the pandemic has made us so obscenely lazy that the mere thought of taking out cash from our wallets is enough to make us breathless.
Fortunately, more and more stores are going cashless for the sake of safety and efficiency.
NTUC FairPrice App Allows Customers to Do Cashless Payment
A newly-launched feature on the FairPrice app now allows customers to use cashless payments!
The new payment system was announced today (26 July) by NTUC FairPrice in a media release.
Now, customers can pay for their purchases online or at any FairPrice outlet or Unity pharmacy across the country with the enhanced FairPrice app.
As the supermarket chain noted, cashless payments have the benefit of speeding up in-store transactions and reducing queue waiting times, while also minimising physical contact.
This explains why cashless transactions increased by 25% in 2020, after the coronavirus emerged.
App Allows Customers to Track Their LinkPoints Without a Physical Card
Previously, customers had to present a Plus!/NTUC Plus! (Union) card or OCBC Plus! credit card for their purchases in order to earn or redeem loyalty points.
But with the enhanced FairPrice app, you can leave these cards at home.
That’s right, the app now allows you to earn and redeem LinkPoints without the need to carry a physical rewards card.
It also allows you to track your loyalty points and purchase receipts digitally in real-time.
Oh, but there’s more.
From 1 August this year, the Plus! Rewards programme will no longer require a minimum spend for customers to earn LinkPoints.
At the moment, members have to spend at least S$20 when shopping at FairPrice outlets to earn LinkPoints.
What’s more, from 1 Aug, these LinkPoints will be extended to include FairPrice’s online customers.
Relatives of Pioneer Generation Can Buy Discounted Groceries on their Behalf
Last week, FairPrice also announced that it would be reinstating a scheme that allows family members of the Pioneer Generation to buy discounted groceries on their behalf.
Applicable to purchases of up to S$200, the scheme will run from today (26 July) till 31 Aug.
FairPrice explained that it was concerned about the fact that many seniors above 70 were still unvaccinated.
At the moment, 200,000 seniors above the age of 60 have yet to receive a COVID-19 shot.
Many of the recent COVID-19 cases who were hospitalised and suffered severe illness were also unvaccinated and above 60.
So, if you have an elderly family member at home and have the time to do so, you can now do their grocery shopping for them, and get the same discounts.
Or, better yet, use the FairPrice app to make their purchases online so you can further reduce contact with others.