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Singapore Retail Festival debuts in September: Can GSS 2.0 save Singapore’s department stores?

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(Clockwise from top left) Tangs, Takashimaya, Metro and BHG are among the department stores signing on for the Singapore Retail Festival.

(Clockwise from top left) Tangs, Takashimaya, Metro and BHG are among the department stores signing on for the Singapore Retail Festival.

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SINGAPORE – A national icon is reborn.

The Great Singapore Sale (GSS), launched in 1994 and retired in 2023, finds its successor in the Singapore Retail Festival (SRF), which from Sept 26 to Oct 12

will make its inaugural swing

for the house-bound and close-fisted shoppers of today.

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