Yahoo Finance Best Grocery Credit Cards for NTUC FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Giant & RedMart (2019)
In between comparing the prices of the various instant noodle brands at NTUC FairPrice and marvelling at how much cheaper alcohol is at Sheng Siong than in bars, why not save even more money by using a cashback credit card that’s optimised for your grocery shopping?
Because banks work with different supermarket chains, it can be a hassle to find out which one actually gives you the most cash rebate for your go-to grocery store. Plus, many of them come with different rebate tiers depending on how much you spend on that card that month, making it even more confusing.
Here’s a list of credit cards you can use on your next grocery run.
Best credit cards for groceries in Singapore 2019
Supermarket chain | Best cashback credit cards |
NTUC FairPrice | NTUC / OCBC Plus! Visa Card |
Sheng Siong | BOC Sheng Siong Card |
Cold Storage | Maybank Family & Friends |
Giant | Citibank SMRT Card |
All supermarkets incl. RedMart | CIMB Visa Signature, Citi Cash Back |
Here’s a more detailed breakdown of which cashback cards give you rebates where. Swipe to see the full table:
Cashback card | NTUC | Sheng Siong | Cold Storage | Giant | RedMart |
CIMB Visa Signature | 10% at all supermarkets, online and offline | ||||
Citi Cash Back Card | 8% at all supermarkets, online and offline | ||||
DBS Live Fresh Card | 5% on all online transactions & contactless payment | ||||
DBS Visa Debit Card | 5% on contactless payment up to $200 | – | |||
Citibank SMRT Card | 4.7% / 5% | 4.7% / 5% | – | 4.7% / 5% | – |
Maybank Family & Friends | 5% / 8% | – | 5% / 8% | – | – |
OCBC Plus! Card | 7% | – | – | – | – |
BOC Sheng Siong Card | – | 7% | – | – | – |
POSB Everyday Card | – | 5% | – | – | – |
UOB Delight Card | – | – | 3% / 8% | 3% / 8% | – |
CIMB Visa Signature – best credit card for all supermarkets (10% cashback)
The newly revamped CIMB Visa Signature card is so tok gong that it beats all the competition on the list, giving you a cool 10% rebate on all groceries everywhere, including online supermarkets like RedMart.
This way, you can always shop at whichever chain has the best Ben & Jerry’s promotions – no need to compromise. A must-have for all commitment-phobes!
The drawback, if you can call it that, is the minimum spending requirement of $600 a month in order to get your rebate. Luckily, CIMB also gives you 10% cashback on dining and online transactions, so $600 is absurdly easy to hit.
Groceries rebates are capped at $50 a month (meaning you shouldn’t exceed $500). The other 2 categories are also capped at $50 each, and the maximum total rebate you can get each month is $100. That’s still a pretty high cap, though.
Citi Cash Back Card – best credit card to use on Redmart (8% cashback)
Citi Cash Back Card
Card Benefits
Chinese New Year Giveaway - Win up to S$300 NTUC FairPrice Vouchers!
8% cash back at supermarkets & grocery stores worldwide
8% cash back is also applicable for online groceries delivery including honestbee and RedMart
Total minimum retail spend of S$888/statement month to get 8% cash back, capped at S$25 per category (Dining, Grab rides valid till 6 Apr 2018, Groceries, Petrol). For retail spend less than S$888 and/or other retail spend categories, 0.25% cash back is awarded, no cap
If your idea of a great weekend is one spent comparison shopping online, this is the card for you. Their 8% cashback offer is one of the best in town, and it applies to all groceries stores including online grocery delivery from Honestbee and RedMart.
If you’re a regular RedMart user, it’s also a no-brainer to also sign up for their loyalty membership programme, LiveUp (free trial for 60 days, subsequently $28.80/year). When you use a Citibank credit card, you get 8% LiveUp rebate instead of the usual 5%. That’s on top of your credit card rebates.
The main drawback for the Citi Cash Back Card is that the minimum spending requirement is a high $88. Since the grocery cashback is only $25 a month (which limits your spending to $312.50), you probably don’t want to spend that $888 all on groceries to feed your 8 kids.
On the bright side, there’s lots of other stuff you can spend on to meet the minimum spending requirements, since you also get 8% cashback on dining, Grab and petrol.
OCBC Plus! Visa Card – best credit card to use at NTUC FairPrice (7% rebate)
If you’re a die-hard fan of NTUC FairPrice, you probably already have an NTUC membership, right? You probably also have the NTUC Plus! Visa Card too. On paper, it gives you the absolute highest rebates at NTUC FairPrice – “up to” a whopping 12%.
Yup. Everyone’s favourite words: “up to”. Check out the fine print…
That’s right. You only get 12% rebate if you fulfill all the conditions:
(a) NTUC member,
(b) NTUC FairPrice shareholder,
(c) have an NTUC-OCBC Starter Account,
(d) credit your salary to that account faithfully, and
(e) spend $400 outside of NTUC every month.
Wah lao… I think it’s too much lah, even for the most faithful of NTUC fans. If you don’t fulfil all the conditions, the rebate is just 7%, which is basically the same as the “weaker” OCBC Plus! Visa Card which doesn’t require an NTUC membership.
OCBC Plus! Visa Credit Card
Card Benefits
Enjoy 7% off everything at Fairprice and 3% Fairprice Online
Free delivery at www.fairprice.com.sg
Earn 0.22% LinkPoints rewards on all Visa spend
The really irritating thing about this card is that it requires you to spend $500 outside NTUC. Only the most hardcore of NTUC fans will want to do that. For the rest of us, I think it’s easier to just use the CIMB Visa Signature or Citibank SMRT Card.
BOC Sheng Siong Card – best credit card to use at Sheng Siong (7% cashback)
For those of you who prefer to shop at Sheng Siong, you have a few options. Anyway, shopping at Sheng Siong is a commitment to being cheapo right? (Source: I shop at Sheng Siong.)
Hands down, the best one is Bank of China’s Sheng Siong card. There’s no minimum spend to get 7% cashback. Sweet! There’s also an upper tier 12% rebate but it requires you to spend $400 outside of Sheng Siong. Nah, screw that.
POSB Everyday Card
Card Benefits
5% cash rebate with Sheng Siong
S$50 cash rebate cap per calendar month (maximum spend of S$1,000 per calendar month)
Cash rebate awarded in Daily$
Another great fuss-free option is the POSB Everyday Card, which also has no minimum spend requirement, but has a lower cash rebate of 5%.
Or, if you’d rather consolidate your spending into one card and don’t mind having to hit a minimum spend, you could simply stick with the CIMB Visa Signature Card or Citi Cash Back Card.
Citibank SMRT Card – best credit card to use at Giant (4.7% / 5% cashback)
Citibank SMRT Card
Card Benefits
Up to 5% savings on on Groceries. 4.7% (For transactions above $50. If transaction is $50 and below, 2.7% awarded instead) + 0.3% (If monthly card spend is at least $300)
Grocery - FairPrice, Giant, Sheng Siong, FairPrice Xtra Kallang Wave (up to 7.3% savings) only
Savings awarded in SMRT$. 1 SMRT$ = S$1 of vouchers. Vouchers available for Giant, Sheng Siong, Popular, Watsons, Shaw Theatres
High cashback usually comes with high minimum spending requirements. The Citibank SMRT Card is a bit of an exception.
The card offers a generous 5% cash rebate at Giant, Sheng Siong and NTUC FairPrice so long as you spend $300 a month, which is doable for even the thriftiest of us. Even if you don’t meet the minimum spending requirement, you still get a generous 4.7% rebate.
The main thing to pay attention to is to ensure your purchases add up to at least $50 each time, otherwise you will lose 2% cashback.
Maybank Family & Friends – best credit card to use at Cold Storage (5% / 8% cashback)
Maybank Family & Friends Card
Card Benefits
Up to 8% cash rebate at selected merchants
Merchants include Cold Storage and NTUC FairPrice (Singapore) and Giant, TESCO, and more (Malaysia)
Get 0.3% cash rebate on all other spend with no cap on cash rebates
If your goal is to save money, you probably wouldn’t be shopping at Cold Storage frequently anyway, but hey, who are we to stand between a man and his stinky French cheese?
For the times you really need to make a Cold Storage run, it’s handy to have the Maybank Family & Friends card which gives you 5% or 8% rebate at Cold Storage, as well as the more pedestrian NTUC FairPrice.
Best of all, this credit card gives you the same rebates at major Johor Bahru supermarkets (e.g. Aeon, Tesco & Giant Malaysia), so you get rebates on top of the savings you get by paying in ringgit!
To get your rebates, you need to meet a minimum spend of $500 for the 5% tier and $1,000 for the 8% tier. The family-oriented credit card has a whole bunch of rebate categories, like petrol, fast food, pharmacies and Popular bookstores.
What is your favourite cashback credit card for groceries? Share your recommendations in the comments!
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