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Pacific's 58th Anniversary Shop & Win Closes 16 September: RM50 Buys One Entry, However Much You Spend
The Store Group's 58th Anniversary Shop & Win has been running since 22 May 2026 and stops accepting entries on 16 September. Spend RM50 in a single receipt at a Pacific, Pacific Grocer, The Store, Market Place, TS Concept Store or Super Jimat, scan the QR, upload the receipt, and you are in the draw for a Proton e.MAS 5. We read the full official terms on the organiser's own entry site this run, and the line that matters is buried in the middle of them: each purchase receipt is entitled to one entry only, regardless of the total purchase amount. A RM500 receipt and a RM50 receipt are worth exactly the same. Two more things the posters do not tell you: winners pay the registration, insurance and road tax on the cars themselves, and anyone who does not turn up in person at the prize ceremony forfeits the prize. This is also the rare national campaign that is almost entirely out of town: Pacific's own store list runs to ten outlets across Kedah, Penang, Perak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang and Johor, and not one of them is in Kuala Lumpur or Selangor.
Tourism Tax in Malaysia 2026: The RM10 a Night Malaysians Never Pay, and the Johor Rule That Changed on 1 September
A new federal regulation quietly took effect on 1 September 2026. P.U. (A) 307, the Tourism Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2026, moves Johor out of Malaysia's Friday-Saturday weekend group for tourism tax administration, so the tourism tax offices there now open 7.30am to 4pm Monday to Friday instead of 8am to 4pm Sunday to Thursday. It is a small change with a long backstory, and it lands on top of a rate order gazetted only nine months ago. We read all four instruments on the Customs Department's own portal and set out what tourism tax is, who actually pays it, who is exempt, and the separate island levy that is not tourism tax at all.
Johor Premium Outlets 15th Anniversary Sale, 10 to 13 Sept 2026: Up to 80% Off, Midnight Closing on Two Nights, and the Offers That Are Not Actually New
Johor Premium Outlets in Kulai turns its 15th anniversary into a four-day sale from 10 to 13 September 2026, and on the Friday and Saturday it stays open until midnight while its sister centre in Genting Highlands closes at 10pm as usual. We read all 83 offer listings off JPO's own event feed on 6 September 2026, then cross-checked every one of them against JPO's own live deals listing. Forty-eight are dated to the four sale days and 24 run the whole month, but several of the headline numbers are not anniversary offers at all: G2000's up to 80% has been running since 16 June, Vans' 50% with two items since 2 May, and MANGO's RM69 off RM350 since 21 August. The one that moved the other way is Akemi, whose fixed RM15 and 2-for-RM29 tiers expired on 6 September and are not in the anniversary version. Re-checked on 8 September, we also found the 48 standing VIP Shopper deals the anniversary page never mentions, and four brands whose two JPO listings now disagree. Ecco changes its offer by the day. A separate contest called Shop More, Win Bigger runs seven days longer than the sale, to 20 September, and the Maybank voucher everyone mentions does not work on Malaysian-issued cards.
Village Grocer Opens at Horizon Mall, Iskandar Puteri on 3 September: Buy 1 Free 1, Then a Freebie Every Thursday to 24 September
Village Grocer opens its Horizon Mall store in Iskandar Puteri on Thursday 3 September 2026, and the opening is running four separate offers on the same day: Buy 1 Free 1 on four items, three spend-based freebies from RM100, two more gifts reserved for Bites members from RM30, and a free Lotte Pepero pack for anyone who leaves a Google review in store. We read every slide of the brand's own campaign carousel and the developer's own tenant listing. The freebie dates are not random, they are every Thursday, with one Saturday exception on 12 September when a RM350 fresh-seafood receipt buys you a whole 3kg to 4kg Norwegian salmon. That single item is worth roughly RM196 at the store's own opening-day price, and only 30 are given away.
LEGOLAND Malaysia MERDEKA Fest 2026: Free With Admission Until 20 Sept — and a Buy 1 Free 1 on Day Tickets That Beats the 20% Offer
MERDEKA Fest at LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort runs until 20 September 2026, and what has changed since it opened is the ticket maths, not the programme. The four Merdeka competitions finished on 31 August and the JDT collector card stopped being redeemable the same day, but LEGOLAND is now running an open-dated Buy 1 Free 1 on 1-Day tickets for Malaysians that beats the Book Now & Save 20% offer for every group except a lone adult. We re-read the campaign page, the event guide, both offer pages, the Family Pass pages and the Scheduled Ride Closures list on legoland.com.my, priced all three routes for a couple and a family of four, and found The Forestmen's Hideout is no longer down until 31 August but closed until further notice.
Shabu-Yo AEON Tebrau City, JB: No Weekend Surcharge on Buffet (Till 31 Aug)
Shabu-Yo's outlet at AEON Mall Tebrau City in Johor Bahru is waiving its usual weekend and public holiday buffet surcharge through 31 August 2026 — Saturday, Sunday and public holiday diners pay the same RM44.90-RM64.90 per-adult tiers as weekdays.
5 Best Laksa Johor Spots in JB (2026 Prices & Rest Days)
Laksa Johor isn't curry laksa or assam laksa — it's spaghetti drowned in a thick, spice-pounded fish gravy, eaten with sambal and a squeeze of calamansi. Five JB spots re-verified in September 2026, with the one published menu price (RM17.50 à la carte at Sedap Corner), the crowd-reported spend at the rest, and — the part that catches people out — a different weekly rest day at almost every one.
7 Best Movers & Self-Storage Companies in Johor Bahru (JB) 2026
From MoverJB's published Singapore-JB minimum charges to Crown Relocations' corporate office inside the SiLC industrial park and storage.my's fully public rate card in Iskandar Puteri, here are seven currently-trading movers and self-storage operators actually serving Johor Bahru and Iskandar Malaysia in 2026 — with the real ringgit figures two of them publish, and the availability crunch nobody mentions.
8 Best Tuition & Enrichment Centres in Johor Bahru (JB) 2026
Eight tuition and enrichment centres verified against their operators' own locators in Johor Bahru and Iskandar Puteri — including the one chain that publishes a national price (Kumon, RM50 registration plus RM175–RM185 a month per subject), the JB robotics company running nine Johor centres, and the coding club whose weekday classes are not after-school at all.
7 Family-Friendly Things To Do in Johor Bahru (2026)
From LEGOLAND Malaysia's theme park, water park and SEA LIFE aquarium to the century-old Johor Zoo's new night safari and Danga Bay's free waterfront playground, here are 7 real, currently-open family attractions across Johor Bahru in 2026.