Seniors lament cessation of Kopitiam card, citing challenges in using FairPrice app to get discount

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Seniors lament cessation of Kopitiam card, citing challenges in using FairPrice app to get discount
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SINGAPORE — Since 2015, Ms Choy Haw Me, 70, and her husband have been using Kopitiam's stored-value cards when they go to their nearby Kopitiam in Yew Tee for a meal or to eat their favourite dessert, ice kacang.

They use the card to get a 10 per cent discount at the food court. The top-up machine has become a familiar routine, with the duo remembering what to press from mostly muscle memory.FairPrice Group, which runs the Kopitiam chain of food court, coffee shops and hawker centres, said on Thursday that they will be. Users will be able to get a cash refund on any stored value starting March, or can transfer the amount to the FairPrice mobile application in the form of Linkpoints.

For senior citizens like Ms Choy who are not as digitally savvy, switching to the FairPrice app poses a challenge. Of the 11 seniors who spoke to TODAY on Sunday, only two were confident about learning to navigate the app. Another hurdle the elderly cited was the language barrier, as the FairPrice app is currently available only in English.

"It's easy for younger people, but for people my generation who grew up without this technology or who don't speak English, it's very difficult."

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