What happened to Econ Minimart?

Dean Koh
4 min readFeb 3, 2023

The death of a 1980s-1990s icon in Singapore?

Above image: A Econ Minimart 200th Outlet with More to Come commemorative phone card from the 1990s. Credit: Ebay

Growing up in the 1990s, Econ Minimarts were a common sight — you could virtually find an Econ Minimart outlet around the corner in your own or nearby neighbourhood. These were small to mid-sized mini supermarkets with lots of daily necessity items such as rice, drinks and snacks — very convenient and accessible.

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