A bag of chicken from Malaysia being sold at $72.27 by NTUC FairPrice has raised the eyebrows of some shoppers and netizens here, prompting a clarification from the supermarket chain that has led to further disbelief. A day before Malaysia's chicken ban kicked in on...
"The image of the product label is of an organic kampung chicken sold at one of our concessionaire counters operated by Swiss Butchery. This product is priced at $22.50/kg , and the product label also showed the product weight of over 3kg as 2 whole birds were packed together, weighed and priced under the same label," FairPrice said in the post.But hours after the post went online, rather than dispelling people's questions, it had resulted in more confusion.
By 10.20pm, four hours after it went up, it had gathered more than 1,300 likes and had been shared 492 times, a much higher engagement than usual FairPrice posts."There's no misunderstanding here. We're just appalled by the price of $22.50/kg for organic kampung chicken sold at NTUC Fairprice," Facebook user Angela Lau wrote in a comment on the post.
"Is $22.5/kg for kampung chicken correct? I know kampung chicken should be more exp but $22.5/kg is like crazy," an Audrey Chen commented. [CLARIFICATION] We are aware of a photograph being shared of a price label for"SB Whole Chicken" affixed on Swiss...
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