April 10th, 2009Uniqlo in Singapore!
Uniqlo is a Japanese brand which I got to know and love when I was studying in Shanghai. The first Uniqlo store in Shanghai was opened way back in 2002. When I first came to Singapore, I was surprised to learn that there was no Uniqlo store here. In fact, I even thought that it was weird. Now Uniqlo has finally opened its first store in Singapore at the new Tampines 1 mall. The grand opening of the mall was yesterday. I met up with Lisa and her colleague during their lunch time. They work at Tampines. (Lucky them!) I wanted to check out the Uniqlo store to see if it was as big and as nice as the ones in Shanghai. I’ve heard that a 2nd Uniqlo store will open at Orchard in a couple of months.
Some information about the new Tampines 1 mall: (source)
Net Floor Area: 260,000 sq ft.
No. of Levels: 5 levels plus 2 basements
No. of Shops: Estimated 172 (6 retail levels)
No. of Carpark Lots: 203 ( Basement 2)
Compared to Jurong Point or Vivocity, Tampines 1 is small. I have no complaints about shopping in Singapore. There are so many shopping malls here and people who get sick of shopping here can easily go to Malaysia or Thailand to do more shopping. That’s my opinion anyway.
I took this photo at the Tampines MRT station.
Once we reached Tampines 1, we went straight to Uniqlo but we didn’t go in the store. There were too many people queuing up to get inside the store.
The queue was very long, all the way to the corridor leading to the toilets.
We didn’t want to waste time queuing up and went to other stores instead. Lisa went back to her work place after we had lunch and I went back to Uniqlo but the queue wasn’t getting any shorter. ARGH. It’s really weird to see so many people at the mall during office/school hours.
I gave up. :laughing: I’ll go there again another day. I had a quick peek at their collection and what I’ve seen so far looks kinda disappointing. They don’t seem to have as many items as the Uniqlo in Shanghai but then again, it is summer all year round in Singapore. I know that I can’t expect a big variety of clothes. The prices also seem to be a bit higher. I’ll go again next week when there are less people.
lol … useless store …
haha i saw ur post ^^
Me too, will go there again! xD
Dun be disappointed. Here’s a lobang. Check out http://www.uniqlosurprise.com for the Singapore launch. Get shopping vouchers here and you may be the lucky one to win trips to Japan!
So you managed to come down to Eastern side of Singapore to have a look at the new shopping mall at Tampines :laughing:
As seen from your photos,it is so packed over there.I may consider going there to look at the running lab outlet on a weekday instead
jc : Thanks for the link!
I’ve tried and so far, I’ve only gotten wallpapers. Will try again. 
karl : hehe yes. I want to go there again but it’s a bit too far for me. Maybe I’ll go again next week.
Aargh I could never queue up to go shopping…
I want to discretely throw some live rats on the floor and enjoy watching people panic
(Insane but it’s a effective @ getting people out of the way.)
Is there a pet store nearby?
Josh: I was going to join the queue if there were only 4-5 persons in front of me.
Shah: lol. That’s an evil thought. Nopes. I didn’t see any pet shop nearby and I have never seen rats on sale in pet shops either.