Save and Easy | Jimat dan Senang

Hello folks!

Beginning of April 2008 the Government introduce the concept of Save and Easy where prices are rounded up to the nearest five cents.

Save - means you save some money (one or two cents)
Easy - don't have to carry one cent coins

(sorry it's in Bahasa Malaysia, but I am sure you can interpret the figures)


Well, it's clear that, not in all occasions you will save one or two cents because there are times when you will have to 'donate' to the shop. I am not sure whether this would apply to online shopping as well.

This system has resulted in mixed reactions but most of us are surely do not feel good about giving the money that we shouldn't be paying in the first place. Meanwhile, somebody proposed something different. The Sabasun are very kind as they will decrease the price to the nearest five cents. In all, we'll be saving at maximum four cents for every receipt.



While you cannot always find a generous store, there is always a way to get around this. It involves some strategy and only (easily) applicable to single kind of item in one purchase. Consider this:

Jusco is now having an offer for their drinking water. The cheapest 1.5 liter bottled drinking water is priced at RM0.69 (filtration water) and RM0.89 (distilled water).
If you buy:-

one : pay extra 1 cent
two : pay extra 2 cents
three: save 2 cents
four : save 1 cent
five : nothing to lose, nothing to gain
six : pay extra 1 cent

Buying three bottles at a time will give you the maximum savings. If you are planning to buy 12 bottles (equivalent to 1 carton) which will costs you RM10.70 at a time, why not buy three bottles at a time? This will saves you 8 cents =)



p/s I bet no one is bothered enough to do that just to save 8 cents.