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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.
7 Coworking, Serviced & Virtual Office Operators in Johor Bahru 2026 — Who Publishes a Price, and Why the Same Business Address Costs RM24 or RM150 a Month
Johor Bahru now has more branded flexible-workspace branches than any Malaysian city outside the Klang Valley — one operator alone runs nine of them — and almost none of them will tell you what a desk costs without a WhatsApp conversation first. We read every one of these seven operators' own websites on 26 August 2026 and found only two that publish a rate you can act on. The gap between them is the story: a Johor Bahru business address costs RM288 for twelve months at a Skudai shoplot operator that prints its full rate card, and RM150 a month at a Level 18 suite in Johor Bahru City Square — the same service, six times the price, and the difference is the postcode on the letterhead. Private rooms run from RM290 to RM690 a month, and the cheapest branch in one seven-branch network is the one furthest from town while two of the ones nearest the highway cost the most. Rechecked on 29 August 2026: Regus, whose site would not open for us three days earlier, turns out to publish the fullest ladder of the lot — a Johor Bahru business address from MYR5 a day, which is about RM152 a month and lands within RM2 of the priciest local address here.
Your Passport Is a Discount Card at Mid Valley Southkey: 20% Off Bonia, 15% Off TGI Friday's, RM300 Off Diamond & Platinum — and Maybank Singapore's RM50 e-Voucher Sitting on Top
Nearly everyone who crosses the Causeway to shop in Johor Bahru walks past the one counter that would have saved them money. At The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey, any foreign passport holder aged 16 and above can walk up to an Information Counter on the Ground Floor and be handed a free Tourist Privilege Card, valid for seven days, that carries flat discounts at more than forty tenants — 20% off normal-priced Bonia, 15% off the à la carte menu at TGI Friday's, 10% off Starbucks food and drinks, 30% off normal-priced diamond jewellery at Tomei, RM300 off a RM6,000 purchase at Diamond & Platinum. Running on top of it until 31 December 2026 is a Maybank Singapore card offer: RM50 in shopping e-vouchers on RM500 of spend, plus a separate RM10 off dining. Re-checked on 4 September 2026: every Merdeka campaign that used to out-price the card has come off the mall's deals page, and of the ten tenants now promoting something, only one — Diamond & Platinum — appears on the card sheet at all. That makes the card worth more this month than it was last.
8 Interior Design & Renovation Firms in Johor Bahru 2026 — and How to Check One Before You Pay
Seven of the eight interior design firms we read in Johor Bahru publish no price at all; one publishes two. What all eight do publish is a registration number — and that, plus a free CIDB contractor search and the MBJB permit rule most owners miss, is a far better filter than any online quote. We re-read eight JB firms' own websites, from Johor Jaya to Mount Austin to Skudai, and set out what each one actually states about its scope, its address and its registration.
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.
8 Best Maid & Domestic Helper Agencies in Johor Bahru (JB) 2026
From a 40-year-old Klang Valley chain's dedicated Taman Molek branch to a Permas Mall agency incorporated in 2012, here are eight domestic helper agencies with real, verifiable offices across Johor Bahru and Skudai — none of them overlapping with our KL/nationwide list.
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.
REX Home Renovation Expo JB: RM100 Voucher, RM29 Blind Box (8-10 & 14-16 Aug)
The REX Home Renovation Expo runs as a Double Weekend edition at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, Mid Valley Southkey, Johor Bahru — 8-10 and 14-16 August 2026 only (closed 11-13 Aug), 11am-9pm daily, free admission, an RM100 early-bird cash voucher for the first 100 visitors each day (min RM1,000 spend), an RM29 home appliance blind box with a minimum RM2,900 spend, and an 8pm appliance lucky draw every event day.
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.
8 Best Confinement Centres & Postnatal Care Centres in Johor Bahru (JB) 2026
From hotel-style suites in Medini to boutique postnatal homes in Skudai and Taman Pelangi, here are eight real, currently operating confinement centres serving Johor Bahru and Iskandar Puteri families.
7 Wedding Banquet Venues Worth Booking in Johor Bahru (JB) & Iskandar Malaysia (2026)
From Berjaya Waterfront's 1,000-guest Grand Ballroom to Cantonese banquet specialists like Restoran Pekin and Senibong Bay Seafood Restaurant, here are seven currently-operating wedding venues across Johor Bahru and Iskandar Malaysia — hotel ballrooms and Chinese restaurant banquet halls alike — with published RM prices where venues state them. Includes what happened to Thistle Johor Bahru.
8 Best Seafood & Zi Char Restaurants in Johor Bahru (2026)
From a seafood restaurant built on stilts over the water to zi char institutions wok-frying economy dishes since the 1970s, here are 8 real, still-trading spots for chilli crab, salted egg prawns and claypot classics across Johor Bahru and greater Iskandar in 2026.