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LOADING up the shopping cart is getting to be an increasingly expensive exercise, going by price checks conducted by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) over a two month period.
Yes, the price of rice is going up.
But so too, cooking oil and other items such as instant noodles.
Consumers who buy premium brands face the steepest increase, compared to those who pick products packaged by the supermarket chains.
The price of a 10kg bag of Royal Umbrella fragrant rice jumped 44 per cent - from $18.65 in March to $26.80 in April.
The housebrand version of rice jumped too, but by less.
More details to come.
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