> Quick view: Padini Concept Store at The Spring Kuching began a renovation clearance on 10 September 2026, with stock going out from RM9 before the shop closes temporarily to be refitted. Padini has published no end date, no clearance product list and no reopening date. The poster's fine print is the entire rulebook: only valid at The Spring Kuching, no reservation, no refund, while stocks last.

What Padini actually announced

Padini Holdings posted the campaign on its official Facebook page on 9 September 2026, tagged at The Spring Mall, Kuching Sarawak. The wording is short: "Big savings before we take a little break from The Spring Kuching. Items from RM9 ... We'll be taking a little break for renovation, so come say goodbye for now and shop your favourites before we temporarily close our doors." The post signs off by pointing at "deals starting tomorrow onwards", which puts day one at Wednesday 10 September 2026.

The artwork carries more detail than the caption does. It reads RENOVATION CLEARANCE, then AS LOW AS RM9, then four asterisked lines: only valid at Padini Concept Store The Spring Kuching, no reservation and no refund, terms and conditions apply, and while stocks last.

What is missing from the caption and from the poster is a closing date. There is no "until 30 September", no countdown and no reopening date for the refitted store. That is not a gap we are willing to fill in for you, because printing a date Padini never gave would be inventing the single most important fact in a clearance. Treat this as a shop-it-now sale that can end on any day the racks run dry or the shutters come down.

Where it is, and the one store it applies to

Padini Holdings' own store locator lists the shop as Padini Concept Store, The Spring Kuching, Lot No. 141-144, First Floor, The Spring, Jalan Simpang Tiga, on +60 82-425 785. The Spring opens 10am to 10pm daily, so a weekday morning run before work is realistic.

The fine print pins the clearance to that address and no other. Kuching's second Padini Concept Store, at Vivacity Megamall, is trading normally and its prices are unaffected.

What RM9 is actually beating

"As low as RM9" is a floor, not a flat price, and a floor is usually one thin rack near the back. The useful question is what that floor beats.

We read Padini's own Concept Store listing on padini.com during this run. It showed 131 items. Only three of them were priced under RM20, all at exactly RM19: a Seed Dragon Ball kids' polo, a pair of Padini Authentics Essential ladies' short jeans, and a PDI casual boys' short-sleeve shirt. Only six of the 131 came in under RM30. The prices that actually repeat are RM49 on 33 items, RM69 on 31, RM59 on 17, RM79 on 14 and RM39 on 13, and the range runs all the way to RM269.

So an RM9 tag sits RM10 below the cheapest thing on Padini's online Concept Store page, and roughly RM40 to RM60 below what the chain normally asks for a mainstream tee, skort or shirt. Five items at RM9 come to RM45, which is still less than one RM49 item at the online price.

That is the honest scale of the discount. It also explains the no-refund line. This is end-of-life inventory being moved before a shopfitter arrives, not a seasonal markdown.

What is likely to be on the racks

A Padini Concept Store is a multi-label shop rather than a single brand. Padini's own Concept Store page groups its stock under six house labels: Padini (in Casual and Work lines), Padini Authentics, PDI, P&Co, Seed and Miki. On the online listing this run, Seed, PDI and Padini Authentics were the three largest blocks, which is a fair guide to what a Concept Store clearance rack tends to be heavy on: casual basics, kids' and boys' wear, and workwear staples.

The catches worth knowing before you go

No reservation means staff will not hold a size behind the counter while you think it over or go back for a partner. No refund means no exchange either once you have paid, so anything that depends on fit has to be tried on in the shop rather than at home.

"While stocks last" behaves differently on a clearance than on a normal sale. Sizes empty unevenly: the middle of the size run goes first, and what survives to the end is the extremes. Week one is worth considerably more than week three, and there may not be a week three.

One local timing note. The Spring is running Torabera ACG Fest from 11 to 13 September and a Little Reader's Club session on 12 September, so that first weekend will be the busiest the mall gets this month. If you want room to work through a clearance rack, pick a weekday.

Who this is for, and who should skip it

Go if you live in or near Kuching, already wear Padini basics, and take a common size. A clearance floor of RM9 at a chain whose cheapest online item is RM19 is a genuinely good hour of shopping.

Skip it if you are not already in Kuching. This is one shop, with an unknown quantity of stock and no published end date, which is not something to plan a trip around. Skip it too if you need a particular size or a current-season piece, because no refund plus no reservation is a poor combination for a fussy purchase. If you simply want Padini's current range rather than its leftovers, the Vivacity Megamall store and padini.com are both still open to you.

What Kuching is left with afterwards

The detail worth carrying away is what happens to the city's Padini footprint. Padini Holdings' locator lists ten group stores across Sarawak, four of them in Kuching: Padini Concept Stores at The Spring and at Vivacity Megamall, plus Brands Outlets at Vivacity Megamall and at AEON Mall Kuching Central. Once The Spring store closes for its refit, Kuching is down to a single Padini Concept Store, the one at Vivacity.

Elsewhere in the state, Padini Concept Stores continue at Permaisuri Imperial City Mall in Miri, and at both The Spring Bintulu and Times Square Megamall in Bintulu.

Padini says the closure is temporary and that the store will be back, but it has not published a reopening date either. Padini's nationwide, online-side offers work on a completely different basis, on percentage discounts with minimum spends rather than absolute clearance prices, and we cover those separately in our write-up of the Padini Concept Store clearance and its sitewide code.

*Image: Padini Holdings*