8 Best Budget Shopping Places in Singapore to Shop till You Drop
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Emma Lee |
September 04, 2025
If you love shopping, Singapore is a must-visit destination. As one of the most vibrant shopping hubs in Asia, with hundreds of shopping centres, Singapore is a fashion paradise for millions of tourists who come not only to sightsee but also to shop for the latest fashion items.
Singapore caters to label lovers with numerous world-class brands, yet it also caters to budget-conscious customers by offering trendy items within their budgets. In Singapore, ‘budget’ doesn’t equate to out-of-fashion or low quality; you can easily find items that match your needs, preferences, and budgets.
So, where can budget-conscious shoppers truly enjoy shopping in Singapore? The eight most renowned budget shopping places [updated for 2025] suggested below are dedicated to offering a wide range of goods, from fashion clothing, handbags, shoes, and perfume to various souvenirs.
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Highlights:
- A shopping paradise for fashionistas: Bugis Street has more than 600 shops, and most of them offer fashion clothing, shoes, and accessories. Fashionistas will certainly be impressed by all the latest and trendiest things that are updated almost every day.
- A true budget shopping place in Singapore: With wallet-friendly prices, Bugis Street has attracted a huge number of shopping lovers. With just S$10, you can get a nice casual wear. You can even buy watches, accessories, and souvenirs at prices not more than S$5.
- The largest and most exciting street-shopping place in Singapore: Bugis Street offers shoppers and visitors an exciting experience of street shopping. Colourful products displayed at plenty of shops along small alleys, hum voices from the crowd, and the aroma from food and drink stores will excite you.
Highlights:
- All kinds of products are offered at the cheapest prices: Mustafa Centre’s prices are always competitive. As such, Mustafa Centre purchases products in extremely large quantities to get lower prices so as to pass the saving to its customers.
- You can buy almost anything at Mustafa Centre: Visiting Mustafa Centre, shoppers will be amazed at its huge selection of goods, including jewellery, gold and silver, consumer electronics, fashions, shoes, watches, cosmetics, perfumes, toiletries, medicinal products, household items, stationery, furniture, hardware, books, CDs, DVDs, groceries, confectioneries souvenirs and many other types of products.
- The only 24-hour shopping centre in Singapore: It is the story of a very big shopping centre opening 24 hours per day and 365 days per year, not the story of common 24/7 convenient stores. While hundreds of Singapore shopping centres sleep at night, Mustafa Centre opens to cater for late-night shoppers and that is one of the reasons people love it.
Highlights:
- A place to buy cheap stuff on Singapore’s most luxurious street: While most of the shopping centres on Orchard road sell high-end products to wealthy customers, Lucky Plaza is the only mall catering to budget shoppers. Casual clothing, simple accessories, sunglasses, low-end watches, sweet and chocolate, souvenirs, used books, and medicated oil products are always on sale.
- All sort of perfumes are available at low prices: The same brands, but perfumes at Lucky Plaza has lower prices compared with other shopping centres. Lucky Plaza’s perfume stores also sell branded perfumes in sample sizes. If you want to try out different kinds of perfumes, Lucky Plaza could be your ideal choice.
- One of the last few old shopping malls in Singapore: Shopping at Lucky Plaza, you may not be pleased with its “messy-floor-plan” and low-quality facilities, but these things will give you an experience of Singapore shopping centres in old days. It would be fun to explore and find out stores in unusual locations in this over 30-year-old building.
Highlights:
- Fashion, fashion, and fashion: At Far East Plaza, you can find many shops selling fashionable and trendy clothing, footwear, and accessories. They offer all the latest and trendiest fashion items with a good mix of Korean-style, Hong Kong-style, vintage and retro apparel.
- Affordable shopping: The average prices of clothes there range between S$15 and S$30, and there are many daily sales with S$10 and below stuff.
- Numerous good beauty services are provided at wallet-friendly prices: Far East Plaza is home to many good beauty service stores, providing hair, nail, spa, and tattoo services. These stores are located between fashion shops and do not require a booking, so you can just walk in to engage a service.
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- Student budget-friendly shopping right in Orchard: Being a facility within the SCAPE Company, which is built on the vision to empower the youth, the products sold in the retail space are cheap, as the students are the primary customers. Most young people depend on handouts from parents and stipends, and hence SCAPE Underground offers a perfect avenue for budget shopping.
- Wide range of cheap products: Many activities take place within the SCAPE; as a result, a wide variety of high-quality products related to young people are sold at the SCAPE Underground. These products range from fashion apparel, accessories, electronic accessories, and gifts, just to mention but a few. This shopping space serves all age brackets with cheap ‘youthful’ products. Fashion clothes have average prices from $10 to $15.
- Cheap cost of running a business: SCAPE Underground is a subsidized indoor retail environment with low setup costs and rents as most retailers are youths and students in particular. This, as a result, keeps the cost of selling low, and hence, the prices of the products are incredibly low.
Highlights:
- Biggest outlet mall in Singapore: Occupying the larger part of the IMM building is roughly 37,800sqm of warehouse and retail spaces spread over five levels. You can find there more than 90 outlet stores, 220 retail shops, and 50 food and beverage stores. Also, the mall is complemented by hypermarket and lifestyle stores such as Sony and Daiso.
- Loads of Fashion Brands: Among the leading fashion brands available at IMM Singapore are Calvin Klein Jeans, Coach, Kate Spade, Club 21, Clarks, City Chain, Furla, Converse, Hush Puppies, Juicy Couture, Micheal Kors, TUMI, New Balance, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Winter Time, Timberland, Onitsuka Tiger, and G2000.
- Offering up to 80% discounts all year round: Unlike other shopping places around the world, the IMM mall offers these discounts on different products from different outlets 365 days a year. In other words, there is always a sale at the mall all year round.
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- Five-storied shopping paradise for fashion and food lovers: One of the oldest shopping malls in the country, City Plaza houses a number of fashion shops, beauty salons, jewelry shops, and photo stores. The mall also has an entire floor dedicated to restaurants and fast-food chains where foodies can enjoy delicious food like the flavorful chicken from Arnold’s Fried Chicken and ban mian from Poon Nah.
- Pre-loved fashion at a bargain: Refash and PEONY Collection on level three and Whitefiction on level four are some of the shops that offer great collections of pre-loved clothes, shoes, bags, and accessories. You can get dresses, tops, and pants at prices from $5-$15. These shops also buy pre-owned clothes from shoppers who are willing to sell clothing items for a decent sum of money.
- A hub for fashion at wholesale prices: The affordable wholesale shops in City Plaza are where many fashion bloggers and retailers buy unique fashion items in bulk for their shops. So shopping at City Plaza helps you save a lot, prices can be just half the amount spent for the same items from blog shops. Stores like Posh Allure, Maker’s Mart, and My Beautiful Shoes offer wholesale prices when you buy 12 or more items.
- Gateway to the past: The mall has shops for vintage toys and cameras. Power Photo Store sells vintage games for around $10. You can buy some of these and have a piece of history with you.
Highlights:
- All essentials shopping mall across IKEA Alexandra: This 2-storey shopping centre has all the basic things that a Singapore mall normally offers like supermarket (Cold Storage), hair salon (Organic Express Hair Colours Lab), clinic (Straits Clinic), food court (Koufu), fast food stores (Subway and KFC), ATMs and even launderette.
- Enjoyable and relaxing shopping without a crowd: Being a hidden gem, only known by local savvy shoppers, Anchorpoint provides customers with a comfortable and pleasurable shopping experience. Shoppers usually need not to queue for vacant trying rooms or for getting help from salespersons.
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