Skip the supermarket queues: we compared the four biggest online grocery shopping platforms in Singapore on delivery fees, speed, and product range so you can stock your fridge without leaving home. The single most expensive assumption shoppers make is that free delivery kicks in at the same basket size everywhere. It doesn't. FairPrice Online goes free at $59, RedMart at $60 on a standard 6-hour slot, Cold Storage only at $80, and Sheng Siong Online not until $100. So a $59 trolley ships free at the first, misses the bar at the second, and still costs $7 at the third. And 'free' is not quite free at FairPrice: its help centre confirms the separate service fee, currently $3.99, is charged on every online order no matter how big your basket. Digital Club members escape it on $59+ subtotals, and from 3 September 2026 so do CHAS Blue and Orange cardholders on their discount day with a $100 minimum spend. Note too that Amazon Fresh shut its Singapore grocery service on 6 July 2026. Fees, thresholds and membership perks below were re-checked against each platform's own published terms in September 2026.
How we compared
Grocery delivery has changed how Singaporeans shop. No more fighting for parking at NTUC, no more lugging heavy bags home in the heat. With same-day and next-day delivery now standard, online grocery shopping is faster and often cheaper than heading to the supermarket yourself.
We compared Singapore's grocery delivery platforms across delivery fees, speed, product range, and promo frequency, checking each figure against the platform's own published terms in September 2026. Whether you're restocking weekly essentials or hunting for a specific brand, the four above are the ones worth comparing head-to-head.
What changed in 2026: Amazon Fresh has shut down
If you were an Amazon Fresh user, that option is gone. Amazon announced on 7 May 2026 that it would discontinue Amazon Fresh grocery delivery in Singapore and wind down its local third-party seller marketplace, with the service ending on 6 July 2026. Partner storefronts on the platform, including Watsons and Little Farms, closed alongside it. Amazon said shoppers here valued items from its international stores in the US, Germany and Japan, so it is prioritising cross-border selling instead.
Amazon.sg itself is still running, and Prime (S$4.99/month) still covers Prime Video and shipping benefits on the international storefront. You just can't order local groceries through it any more. If Amazon Fresh was your default, RedMart is the closest like-for-like replacement on range, while FairPrice Online is the cheaper everyday swap.
How to pick a grocery delivery app
- By price: FairPrice Online is the cheapest for everyday staples thanks to its house-brand range; Cold Storage sits at the premium end.
- By speed: RedMart Now delivers in as fast as 30 minutes in covered areas, daily from 10am to 9pm; FairPrice Express Delivery is the same idea in selected Northeast areas; Shopee's "Buy Today, Get Today" covers free same-day for Fulfilled by Shopee items ordered before noon. Everything else is same-day or next-day slots.
- By range: RedMart has the largest dedicated online catalogue; Cold Storage wins on imported and specialty items.
- By delivery fee: don't assume one number covers everything, and don't assume free delivery means free. FairPrice Online goes free at S$59, RedMart at S$60 for a 6-hour slot (S$150 for a 2-hour slot), and Cold Storage only at S$80. Below those you'll pay roughly S$5 to S$7. FairPrice alone among the four adds a separate service fee, currently S$3.99, to every online order no matter the basket size.
- By what you already use: if you're already a heavy Shopee or Lazada shopper, stacking existing vouchers and coins usually beats switching platforms for a marginally lower shelf price.
Delivery fees, free-delivery thresholds, membership prices and coverage areas change often, so confirm the current terms on each platform before you check out.
How to avoid FairPrice's S$3.99 service fee
FairPrice's service fee is the one charge on this page that a bigger basket cannot fix. Its help centre answers the question "If I hit the minimum free delivery amount, do I still need to pay for service fee?" with a flat "Yes, the service fee is a fixed fee that will be included for all online orders." There are exactly three ways around it.
- Digital Club membership. S$9.99 a month, or S$7.99 a month billed annually at S$95.88. Members get the service fee waived on every order with a subtotal of S$59 or more, plus unlimited free delivery and 2x Linkpoints. The first month is free if you haven't been a member in the past 12 months. It pays for itself at roughly two or three deliveries a month.
- A CHAS Blue or Orange card. This is the route almost nobody mentions, and it is new. Under FairPrice's CHAS discount scheme running from 3 September 2026 to 1 January 2027, CHAS Blue and Orange cardholders get a 6% discount on eligible purchases, capped at S$200 of spend per customer per day, and a service fee waiver worth S$3.99 on online delivery orders with a S$100 minimum spend. Blue cardholders get it on Thursdays, Orange cardholders on Fridays. The scheme covers FairPrice Online as well as the supermarkets and Unity, but you must first update your profile with MyInfo in the FairPrice Group app for the discount to auto-apply. Note the S$5 delivery fee still applies below the S$59 minimum, and the 6% excludes marketplace and direct-fulfilment items, alcohol, tobacco, infant formula for 0 to 12 months, gift cards and statutory items such as TOTO.
- Buy a Direct Fulfilment Marketplace item. FairPrice confirms these third-party items don't carry the S$3.99 service fee, though they run on their own delivery charges.
One thing that does not work: the Pioneer Generation, Merdeka Generation and Seniors discount schemes are in-store only. FairPrice lists their participating platforms as its supermarkets, Scan & Go, self-checkout, cashier lanes and Unity Pharmacy, and cardholders have to be physically present for verification. CHAS Blue and Orange are the only ones of that family that reach FairPrice Online.
RedMart vs FairPrice: which is cheaper?
This is the matchup most Singaporean households actually agonise over, and the honest answer is that it depends on what's in your trolley.
FairPrice Online is cheaper for a normal weekly shop. Its house-brand range of rice, eggs, milk, cooking oil, cleaning supplies and tinned goods is priced well below equivalent name brands, and because those items make up the bulk of a typical grocery run, the gap compounds across a full basket. It also carries the same range as the physical stores, so what you'd have bought in the aisle is what you'll find online.
RedMart is cheaper on breadth and bulk. With 100,000+ products, it stocks brands and pack sizes FairPrice simply doesn't list, and its multi-buy and bulk pricing on things like drinks, pet food and detergent can beat FairPrice on a per-unit basis. If you buy big and buy specific brands, price the exact items rather than assuming.
On delivery, FairPrice has the slightly lower bar. FairPrice is free from S$59 and charges S$5 below that; RedMart is free from S$60 on a standard 6-hour slot, rising to S$150 if you want a 2-hour window. It is a one-dollar difference on paper, but it does mean a basket built to exactly S$59 clears the delivery charge at FairPrice and still attracts one at RedMart. The more important gap runs the other way. FairPrice charges a service fee on top of delivery, currently S$3.99, and its own help centre confirms it is fixed and applies to all online orders even once free delivery kicks in. RedMart has no equivalent. So a S$59 FairPrice basket costs S$3.99 to receive while a S$60 RedMart basket costs nothing, which quietly reverses the one-dollar advantage.
Subscriptions change the maths again. FairPrice's Digital Club (S$9.99 a month, or S$7.99 a month billed annually, first month free for new members) removes both charges on S$59+ orders. RedMart answers with RedMart+ at S$7.99 a month or S$71.88 a year (S$0.99 for the first month), which drops the free-delivery bars to S$40 and S$100, adds 3% off orders above S$100 and 1% below (capped at S$50 of savings a month), and includes one free same-day delivery a month on orders above S$100. RedMart's real differentiator is still speed rather than price: RedMart Now delivers in as little as 30 minutes for S$3.99 on orders above S$30 in covered districts.
The practical answer: if you buy mostly staples and are happy with house brands, FairPrice Online wins on cost. If you want a wider catalogue, specific imported brands, or a fast top-up, RedMart is worth the small premium. Plenty of households run both, using FairPrice for the weekly bulk shop and RedMart for everything FairPrice doesn't stock.
Same-day, free and cheapest online grocery delivery in Singapore
Same-day grocery delivery
All four platforms can get groceries to you the day you order, but they do it differently. RedMart Now is the fastest, at as little as 30 minutes, daily between 10am and 9pm, for S$3.99 on orders above S$30. At launch it covered southern and central postal districts (Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Alexandra, Pasir Panjang, Clementi, Queenstown, Orchard, River Valley, Tanglin and Bukit Timah, broadly postcodes 09 to 16 and 23 to 27), with a phased rollout across the rest of the island, so check your postcode first. FairPrice Express Delivery is the cheaper on-demand equivalent at S$3 on orders of S$30 and above (S$10 below), but it runs only in selected Northeast areas of mainland Singapore, has no slot to choose, and allows no substitutions, returns or exchanges. Shopee's "Buy Today, Get Today" delivers Fulfilled by Shopee items the same day if you order before 12pm, any day of the week. FairPrice Online offers booked same-day slots, and Cold Storage, CS Fresh and Giant are all orderable through foodpanda for delivery in about an hour at in-store prices. Booked same-day slots get taken early on weekends, so if you need a specific window, order the night before.
Free grocery delivery
The cheapest same-day option is Shopee's "Buy Today, Get Today", which uses a free-shipping voucher with no minimum spend on qualifying Fulfilled by Shopee items. For a proper supermarket shop, there is no single number to hit. The threshold moves by platform, and that is exactly where people get caught out. It is S$59 at FairPrice Online (S$5 below), S$60 at RedMart for a standard 6-hour slot (S$150 for a 2-hour slot), S$80 at Cold Storage (S$7 below), and S$100 at Sheng Siong Online (S$6 below). The practical consequence: a S$59 basket clears the delivery charge at FairPrice, falls a dollar short at RedMart, and still costs S$7 at Cold Storage. Consolidating into one bigger order rather than several small ones is still the simplest way to avoid fees, as long as you consolidate to the right number for the platform you're on.
One caveat that catches almost everyone: at FairPrice, clearing S$59 waives the *delivery* fee, not the service fee, so a non-member's S$59 basket still costs S$3.99 to have delivered. Sheng Siong runs the same two-fee structure, with a S$1.99 PickNPack fee on every order whatever the basket size. If you order weekly, FairPrice's Digital Club subscription removes both charges on S$59+ orders, and the first month is free if you haven't been a member in the past 12 months. On the RedMart side, RedMart+ (S$7.99 a month, S$0.99 for the first) lowers the free-delivery bar from S$60 to S$40, which is the cheaper fix if your baskets are usually in the S$40 to S$60 range.
Cheapest online supermarket
For overall basket cost, FairPrice Online is the pick, on the strength of its house brands. Shopee can undercut everyone on individual items when you stack flash deals, Shopee Coins and vouchers, but pricing swings and you're buying across sellers rather than from one supermarket. RedMart sits in the middle with the widest range, and Cold Storage is the most expensive by design: it's the premium and imported option, not the budget one.
What about Sheng Siong, GrabMart and pandamart?
The four platforms above are the ones worth comparing head-to-head for a full weekly shop, but they aren't the only way to get groceries delivered here, and it's worth knowing where the others fit.
Sheng Siong Online is the notable omission from most comparisons. Singapore's third major supermarket chain does deliver from its own site on booked slots, and if you already shop Sheng Siong for its house brands and fresh produce, it's a legitimate option. The catch is the delivery economics, and its own FAQ spells them out: delivery is free only from S$100, with a S$6.00 delivery fee below that, plus a S$1.99 PickNPack picking-and-packing fee on every order regardless of basket size. That S$100 bar is the highest of any platform on this page, S$41 above FairPrice's. A S$60 Sheng Siong order therefore costs S$7.99 to receive, against S$0 at RedMart and S$3.99 at FairPrice, so on a modest shop it works out dearer even where shelf prices are comparable. Two more things to know: a failed delivery caused by wrong address details may attract a S$6.00 service fee, and Sheng Siong says it cannot yet deliver to every area in Singapore, so check your address before you build a basket.
GrabMart and pandamart are a different product altogether. These are quick-commerce services delivering in roughly 15 to 60 minutes from dark stores and partner outlets, priced per-order with delivery fees and often a mark-up on shelf prices. They are for the forgotten ingredient half an hour before dinner, not the weekly shop, and on that job they beat everything above, RedMart Now included, on coverage. Cold Storage, CS Fresh and Giant are all orderable through foodpanda at in-store prices, which is the cheaper way to get a fast top-up from a real supermarket.
The rule of thumb: book a slot on one of the four big platforms for the bulk shop, and keep a quick-commerce app for emergencies. Paying quick-commerce fees on a full trolley is how a cheap grocery run stops being cheap.
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