> Quick view, updated 9 October 2026: Mesra Run 2.0 registration closed on 30 September, and the race goes ahead on Saturday 10 October 2026 from 6:30am. Today, 9 October, is the last day to collect race kits (10am to 6pm, Sport Lobby, inside Mesra Mall). The free Mesra Care health screenings run 12pm to 5pm until 10 October, walk-in, no race entry needed. The mall's 1 October drop added a Secret Recipe weekday lunch set from RM16.90 and TMC dinner sets tagged RM20 to RM30. The next drop is due 15 October 2026.

Update, 9 October 2026: the Hari Sukan Negara weekend, then a quiet October

Mesra Mall's only mall-wide event this month is the Mesra Run weekend with Jabatan Belia & Sukan Negeri Terengganu (JBSNT), and it ends on Saturday. After that, the mall has published nothing mall-wide for the rest of October as at 9 October — no Deepavali campaign, no shopper reward. What is left is a handful of tenant offers, listed below with their real prices.

Mesra Run 2.0: race day, 10 October

  • Registration is closed. The entry terms on gofun.my set the cut-off at 30 September 2026 or when the quota filled. The form page still loads, but treat it as closed — there is no walk-up entry on race day in the terms.
  • Kit pickup ends today. Collection runs 8 and 9 October 2026, 10am to 6pm, at the Sport Lobby inside Mesra Mall — the terms now name the spot, which they did not in September. Postal kits were sent 20 to 25 September and were due to arrive by 5 October; if yours has not, go to the Sport Lobby before 6pm today rather than on race morning.
  • Race day: Saturday 10 October 2026, 6:30am to 2pm, starting at Mesra Mall, Kemaman, with separate 5km and 10km routes on the mall's event page. The medal is handed over after you finish, and the e-certificate comes by email.
  • Weather clause: the organiser can postpone, cancel or reroute for bad weather or safety reasons, and fees are non-refundable. Check the GOFUN.my and Mesra Mall pages on Saturday morning before you drive in.

A date error to ignore. The new Mesra Run banner the mall put on its homepage on 7 October reads "8 - 10 October 2025". That is a typo on the artwork. The event page, the entry terms and the kit-pickup notice all say 2026, and the run is this Saturday.

Free health checks and community sport, to 10 October

Mesra Care puts Klinik Kesihatan Kemaman and Hospital Kemaman in the mall for free blood pressure checks, BMI assessments, finger-prick glucose tests and general health screening, 12pm to 5pm on 8, 9 and 10 October 2026. Walk-ins are open to all shoppers — you do not need a race bib.

Mesra Active runs badminton, futsal, snooker, Muay Thai, esports and community games from 10am to 10pm on the same three days. Mesra Mall already has its own badminton courts, futsal centre and snooker hall, which is why the line-up leans that way.

Who it suits: anyone in Kemaman, Chukai or Kerteh who has been putting off a blood-pressure or sugar check — the glucose test is a finger prick, not a lab draw. Plan around: the 12pm start. Screening does not open with the mall at 10am, and it closes at 5pm.

The 1 October tenant drop

The 1 October batch arrived on schedule with four posts. Two are offers with prices and two are features.

  • Secret Recipe — weekday lunch set from RM16.90. One main course plus one drink from RM16.90, Monday to Friday, 12pm to 3pm, not on public holidays. No end date is published. Two people at the starting price pay RM33.80; the price climbs with the main you pick, so check the set menu at the counter.
  • TMC — home décor and dinner sets. The supermarket-department store has table décor (artificial orchids, potted greenery) and a dinner-set promotion. The mall's own photo shows sets tagged RM20.00, RM29.90 and RM30.00. While stocks last; no end date.
  • Bata — Bata Energy collection from RM139. The Power Energy Pulse and Energy Firefly 100 walking shoes, selected pairs from RM139. This is a range feature, not a markdown.
  • U-Bowl — a bowling feature with no price or offer attached.

Still listed from 15 September: Popular's three children's books for RM30 and Blockbuster Fiction at RM25, and Thunder Match's iPhone 18 launch offers with 0% instalments on selected cards (no prices published; this is the IT-wing store, not TMC).

What comes next

The mall posts new promotions only on the 1st and the 15th, so the next batch is due 15 October 2026, then 1 November. Its event pages are the exception — the Mesra Run page went up mid-cycle on 14 September — so a Deepavali or year-end campaign could still appear between those dates.

Our 24 September check, in brief

On 24 September the Mesra Run entry was still open at RM45 (short-sleeve shirt) or RM50 (long-sleeve), the same price for 5km and 10km, plus a RM1 service charge per transaction. A family of three in short sleeves paid RM136 in one order. The 15 September drop had carried no Malaysia Day offer, and Big Apple's RM6.90 Dreamy Pink ended on 20 September.

The rest of this article is our 9 September check, kept for reference.

The campaign is over. The page announcing it is not.

Mesra Mall in Kemasik ran "Celebrate Style, Celebrate Malaysia" from 22 August to 8 September 2026: spend RM350 or more across a maximum of two original receipts at specialty stores and redeem a limited-edition 69th Merdeka T-shirt at the Information Counter, same day only. The last qualifying purchase was Tuesday 8 September. We re-checked the mall's own systems on 9 September 2026, and this is what a shopper walking in this week actually finds.

The campaign page is still live, and still looks open

The campaign page at mesramall.com.my/merdeka-2026 returns a normal page, not a redirect and not a 404. It still carries the scrolling "22 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2026" banner, still lists the T-shirt under a "Shopper Rewards" heading, still invites you to "Take a Closer Look at the Limited Edition 69th Merdeka T-Shirt", and still links to the full Malay terms, which are also still live. The mall's homepage still links straight to it.

Nothing on the page says the offer has closed. The only signal is the date range itself, and a shopper who reads "8 September" on 9 or 10 September has to do the arithmetic themselves. If you are driving in from Kerteh, Paka, Kijal or Dungun on the strength of that page, you will reach the Information Counter and be turned away.

There is a second reason this matters. The mall has not published a successor. On 1 September it posted four items — two lifestyle guides and two tenant promotions — and none of them is a mall-wide campaign. Its Facebook page has posted nothing about Malaysia Day on 16 September either, as at 9 September. So the Merdeka page is currently the newest campaign artwork the mall is showing, which is exactly why it keeps drawing clicks a week after it stopped meaning anything.

What was still live on 9 September 2026

These are the offers the mall or the tenant is still publishing. Prices are the operator's own.

  • Big Apple Donuts & Coffee — the one with a real date. Buy any Kita Anak Malaysia Box of 6 and add a Dreamy Pink drink at RM6.90 instead of the usual RM9.90, or add a soft drink for RM1.50. The mall's post is explicit: valid until 20 September 2026, while stocks last. That is eleven days past the T-shirt deadline, and it is the only Merdeka-period tenant offer with a stated end date still in the future.
  • Levi's — free card holder on RM299. The Levi's outlet's own poster, published on the mall's Facebook page on 27 August 2026, offers a free Levi's card holder with a minimum RM299 purchase. Read the artwork rather than Facebook's automatic caption: the caption reads it as "LEVI'S 501 PERCUMA", but the 501 is store signage in the background and the gift pictured is a red card holder. No end date is printed, so treat it as while-stocks-last.
  • Levi's gift cards. Separately, on 1 September the mall published that Levi's gift cards are available, redeemable at the Levi's outlet only. No denominations and no dates were published.
  • Rotiboy — a new five-item bundle. Published 1 September 2026: five signature Rotiboy items in one bundle, described as a limited-time offer. No price is published, which is worth knowing before you plan around it.
  • The Chicken Rice Shop — Good Lunch Promo. From RM10.90, weekdays only, 10am to 3pm. Undated, described as a limited-time offer.
  • F.O.S — men's and women's pieces from RM5, published 15 August 2026 for a limited period.
  • Al-Ikhsan — an RM50 rebate on a minimum RM250 spend on selected PUMA footwear and apparel. Undated.
  • Siti Khadijah — save up to RM130 on selected collections. Undated.
  • TMC — free delivery on refrigerators within a 30km radius of Mesra Mall. This is a delivery waiver, not a discount, and the post dates to 15 May 2026.

Two recent Facebook posts are product launches rather than offers: Polaroid Eyewear at Focus Point and the COSRX x Watsons under-eye range, both posted in the first week of September with no price attached.

One offer we could not re-verify: the article previously listed a ZUS Coffee buy-3-free-1 Tuesday deal with a voucher code. ZUS does not publish a promotions page on its own website, so we cannot confirm it is still running. Check the ZUS app before counting on it.

What has died since Merdeka, so you do not waste the drive

  • The 69th Merdeka T-shirt — closed 8 September 2026.
  • The free magnetic Malaysia flag — a one-day giveaway to the first 100 shoppers on 31 August 2026, at the Concierge Counter.
  • The Body Shop's tiered discount — buy 3 for 10 per cent off, 5 for 20 per cent off, ended 7 September 2026, one day before the mall campaign itself.
  • TMT's MSI laptop sale — "save up to RM13,099" on selected models, ended 31 August 2026. Note that TMT is Thunder Match Technology in the IT wing, a different tenant from TMC, the supermarket named in the Merdeka exclusion list.
  • Giordano's 30 per cent Merdeka collection, the Clarks laundry bag, the Tealive lychee gifts and the Baskin Robbins Upin & Ipin merchandise were all published only as campaign artwork on the Merdeka page. With the campaign closed, treat them as over unless the store confirms otherwise.

The mall publishes on the 1st and the 15th — the next drop is 1 October

This is the most useful thing to take away if you shop at Mesra Mall regularly. Every promotions and What's Hot post the mall has published this year is dated either the 1st or the 15th of the month, without exception: 1 September, 15 August, 1 August, 15 July, 1 July, 15 June, 1 June, 15 May. Nothing lands in between.

So there is no point checking daily. The next batch is due on 15 September 2026, which falls one day before Malaysia Day on 16 September — the natural slot for a Malaysia Day offer if the mall runs one. *Update, 24 September:* the 15 September batch arrived on time with no Malaysia Day offer, so the next window is 1 October 2026.

Do not fill in the Click & Win form

While checking the mall's live pages we found mesramall.com.my/click-win still online. It is the "CLICK & WIN" Contest 2017, which ran 4 to 10 December 2017 — nine years ago — and the page still presents a working entry form asking for your name, email address and IC number.

Do not enter anything. There is no live contest behind it, and there is no reason to hand an identity-card number to a form for a competition that closed in 2017. It is a leftover page rather than anything malicious — the terms name Suria KLCC Sdn Bhd, which manages Mesra Mall (the mall's contact address is info.mesramall@suriaklcc.com.my) — but a nine-year-old data-collection form is not something to fill in either way.

For next Merdeka: the mechanics worth remembering

If Mesra Mall repeats the format in 2027, three clauses decided who actually qualified, and they are all worth knowing in advance.

The two-receipt cap was the real threshold. The terms required at least RM350 across a maximum of two receipts, not two or more. That converts an easy-sounding RM350 into an average of RM175 per shop. A typical mall trip — RM60 at the bookshop, RM45 at a coffee kiosk, RM80 on kids' shoes, RM120 on groceries, RM50 on donuts — adds up to RM355 and qualified for nothing, because it was five receipts. And because a single receipt could not be split or claimed twice, a RM700 bill bought exactly one T-shirt, the same as a RM350 one.

The exclusion list removed the easy routes. Purchases at TGV Cinema, TMC, U-Bowl, U-Sport, banks, promotional booths, phone bills and all service-related outlets did not count. Mesra Mall leans heavily on entertainment — a cineplex, a 24-lane bowling alley, squash and badminton courts, a futsal centre and a snooker hall inside 310,000-plus square feet — so the natural family spend was precisely the spend that earned nothing. Nor did the supermarket, which ruled out the fridge.

Discounts worked against the threshold. The Malay terms required "pembelian sekurang-kurangnya RM350" without saying whether that meant before or after discount, and counters read the printed total. The Body Shop's 5-item, 20-per-cent tier turned a RM350 basket into a RM280 receipt. Al-Ikhsan's RM50 rebate on RM250 had the same effect if taken off the bill. The workaround was to pair one discounted receipt with one full-price receipt — which is why an undiscounted Pierre Cardin bag was, counter-intuitively, the most efficient purchase in the mall.

Practical details

Mesra Mall, Lot 6490, Jalan Kemaman-Dungun, Daerah Kemaman, 24200 Kemasik, Terengganu. Phone +609-8649000. Open 10am to 10pm, Monday to Sunday, including public holidays. Managed by Suria KLCC Sdn Bhd; the Merdeka campaign organiser named in the terms was Metro Kemasik Sdn Bhd. Current tenant offers are listed at mesramall.com.my/promotions — check the date line on each post, because expired entries are left up.

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*Cover image: Mesra Mall*