In particular, what retailers are covered in the
Guidelines?
A. Corporate, partnership or individually owned supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience and mini-convenience stores and shops, and bakeries are the retailers contemplated under the Guidelines.
Sari-sari stores, as well as talipapa, wet markets; and
cooperative stores are exempted from granting the 5%
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In particular, what retailers are covered in the
Guidelines?
A. Corporate, partnership or individually owned supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience and mini-convenience stores and shops, and bakeries are the retailers contemplated under the Guidelines.
Sari-sari stores, as well as talipapa, wet markets; and
cooperative stores are exempted from granting the 5%
discount to senior citizens. Sari-sari stores refer to “mom
and pop” type of establishments that are engaged
exclusively in retail business, specifically selling an
assortment of commodities in “tingi” or in small quantity
solely to end-users.
Groceries operating inside the wet markets are covered
by the Guidelines to grant the special discount on select
goods.
Products that may be subject to the 5% discount are as
follows:
canned sardines;
tuna;
evaporated filled milk (e.g. Alaska, Alpine, Carnation,
Liberty, Evaporated Creamer, and Angel);
condensed filled milk (e.g. Alaska, Carnation, Liberty,
Condensed Creamer, and Milkmaid); and
powdered milk (e.g. Alaska, Bear Brand; and Nido
Full Cream);
coffee;
bread;
white and brown sugar;
cooking oil;
instant noodles;
luncheon meat;
meat loaf;
corned beef;
ready-to-cook (processed) pork, beef, and chicken
whether frozen/refrigerated/preserved;
powdered, liquid, bar laundry, and detergent soap.
Milk products that are not listed above as basic
necessities or prime commodities but with doctor’s
prescription for therapeutic purposes will be considered
as medicine. Hence, the senior citizen can avail of the
20% discount when these milk products are purchased
with prescription from a drug store. However, if the senior
citizen buys the said milk products from groceries or
supermarkets, he/she could not avail of the discount.

The law has been upheld by the Supreme Court Here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph...

The 20-percent senior citizen discount applies to the purchase of food, dessert, and other consumable items including value meals, promotional meals offered for consumption of the general public by the establishments.

"As long as the amount of food purchase is the amount verifiably determined as exclusively for the consumption of the senior citizen and said senior citizen presented a valid Senior Citizens Identification Card, then they should be able to avail of the 20 percent discount privilege," Cabral said.
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