Globe, Puregold launch mobile shopping app !-- -- Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star) - February 2, 2020 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Ayala-led Globe Telecom Inc. has expanded its partnership with Puregold Price Club Inc.

, the retail chain owned by Lucio Co, with the launch of a mobile app seen to upgrade customers' grocery shopping experience. Globe said the Puregold Mobile app is designed to take grocery shopping experience to another level with features such as item barcode scanning, store pickup, and real-time updates on order status and stock replenishing.

The app also allows loyal customers to link their Tindahan ni Aling Puring or Puregold Perks Card for easier tracking of their points and access to exclusive discounts. "Puregold Mobile is one of our efforts in partnership with Puregold in enhancing the grocery shopping experience for Filipinos," Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu said.

"We are happy to collaborate with the country's most digitally advanced and well-known grocery brand in co-developing an app that enables customers to maximize mobile connectivity in doing basic and essential everyday things with utmost convenience," he said. Globe said shoppers may pay their purchased items via GCash as well as other payment options such as credit card and cash upon pick up.

In-store pickup is currently available in select Puregold branches in Greater Manila Area. Puregold Mobile is free for download on Google Playstore and the App Store.

Puregold was among the first national supermarket chains to accept mobile payments via GCash. In July last year, GCash and Puregold introduced the GCash scan to pay via barcode.

Puregold has a total of 369 stores nationwide as of the end of September. The company is also behind 17 SandR membership shopping warehouses and 37 SandR New York Style QSR.

GCash, which is operated by Globe Fintech Innovations Inc. (Mynt), has 20 million registered users and over 63,000 partner merchants nationwide.

Mynt is owned by Globe Telecom, Ayala Corp. and Ant Financial, an affiliate of Jack Ma's Alibaba Group.

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