IMM Shopping Mall
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IMM Shopping Mall or IMM Building (Chinese: 国际商品批发中心大厦) is a shopping centre located at Jurong East
Jurong East
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, Singapore
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. IMM is an abbreviation
Abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase...

 for "International Merchandise Mart". The shopping centre is managed by Capitaland
CapitaLand
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. In 2007, IMM expanded and now has 3 new levels of shops.

Major anchor tenants are Giant Hypermarket
Giant Hypermarket
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, Best Denki
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, Popular
Popular Holdings
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, Kopitiam, Burger King
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, McDonald's
McDonald's
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, Mos Burger
MOS Burger
, doing business as , is a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan. It is now the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan after McDonald's, and owns numerous overseas outlets over East Asia, including Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, and until 2005, Hawaii...

 and Daiso
Daiso
is the largest franchise of 100-yen shops in Japan owned by . Daiso has a range of over 100,000 goods, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China. Many of these are own-brand goods....

.

History

After IMM opened in the early 1990s, only IMM card members could enter the shopping mall on levels 1, 2 and 3, including Megamart, the supermarket. However, this restriction ceased in 1999 or 2000 and Giant Hypermarket has since replaced Megamart on level 1.

During the early to mid 1990s, level 5 of the building was an exhibition hall which held various temporary warehouse sales and exhibitions. It has been vacated since then.

Facilities

Some facilities in IMM include:
  • Indoor Playgrounds.
  • Kids' Corner, a mini theatre-cum-playroom which regularly screens cartoons and children’s movies.
  • MotherCare, a resting place for mothers and babies.

Children and elderly-friendly Facilities

  • Children Play Zone at the roof top garden.

  • Baby Rooms are available at Level 1 (near Giant/ Loading Bay Toilet) and at Level 1 (near the Letter Box corridor - leading to covered car park.)

  • Urinals for boys in the upgraded male toilets.

  • Low sinks (kids' height) in female toilets at some upgraded toilets at Level 2 & 3.

  • Kiddy rides strategically located along corridors at Level 1 to 3.

  • Arts and Craft corner located next to the travellator landing at Level 3 outside Bagus food court.

  • Baby strollers and wheelchairs for the elderly are available at the Customer Service Counter at Level 1 for loan free of charge.

Services

Frequent free shuttle bus services are only available to and from Jurong East MRT Station
Jurong East MRT Station
Jurong East MRT Station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station that is part of the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore, and serves as an interchange station between the two lines....

. Free shuttle bus services to IMM from Boon Lay and Clementi MRT stations have ceased since 2 January 2009.

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