Shopping Time -- The Christmas Season

It is the time of the year for everybody to happily shop around again. It is the Christmas shopping season. Walked around Orchard and City Hall areas over the last weekend. Many shops are having discounts to attract customers.

5-10% discounts are easily available almost every corner you turn. 15-20% are not uncommon. And then you see more steep discounts varying from 50% to 70%. (Lee Hwa is the one having the 50% discount, so ladies....)

However, those discounts are very much subject to scrutiny. Some of the items still cost about the same as a few weeks ago after the 'attractive' discount. If you are a consumer of short-term memory, or have no sense of prices, you might be duped into believing you are having a good deal. So, please, when you shop around and happily grapping the bargains, make sure they are the real bargains, ok? :D