Jingjok
Promo culture: 1 แถม 1 and double-date sales
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Thai shopping runs on promotions. Convenience stores and supermarkets are full of 1 แถม 1 (buy one, get one free) and 'second item half price' tags. Malls and banks offer ผ่อน 0% 'zero per cent instalments' on phones and appliances with a credit card. Online, the big sale days are the double dates: 9.9, 10.10, 11.11 and 12.12, when apps compete with flash discounts and free shipping. Restaurants and cafés offer member points, stamp cards and ซื้อครบ…ลด… 'spend X, get Y off'. At markets the human version is แถม: a regular customer may get an extra handful of chillies or one more fishball. Asking มีโปรไหม costs nothing.
Try this today
Before paying anywhere today, ask มีโปรไหม or มีส่วนลดไหม.
The words that carry it
- ส่วนลดdiscount
- ลดราคาto be on sale
- คูปองcoupon, voucher
- แถมto throw in (for free)
- ผ่อนto pay in instalments
Learn this in “Big numbers, dates, money 2” →
Your first 90 days of Thai
Culture cards in Jingjok are tied to the words that carry them, each ending in one thing to try today.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
- WEEKS 7–12 · RUN YOUR LIFEPharmacy, bank, SIM and apps, how you feel, and a weekend away, all in Thai.
The first week is free.