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Supermarket sales soar 27%

HCM CITY — While sales at traditional marketplaces in HCM City have stepped within the last ten years, grocery stores happen to be growing at 19-27 percent annually for the reason that period.Researching the market companies say customers prefer shopping at grocery stores to traditional marketplaces nowadays.The modification within the shopping habits has strongly affected the character of products offered at grocery stores, using the focus switching to food.Bui Hanh Thu, deputy general director of Sai Gon

Makeshift companies clutter new cities

Makeshift companies clutter new cities

by Thu Hien A brief market in Ha Noi's Nam Trung Yen urban area. Temporary marketplaces, shops and parking lots are entering public spaces within the city's new urban and resettlement areas, partially because of deficiencies in grocery stores along with other services during these areas. Photo Thu Hien HN — The cries of shop suppliers ring out across a playground within the Nam Trung Yen urban area in Cau Giay District, tempting citizens using

Customers abandon street suppliers for grocery stores

Customers abandon street suppliers for grocery stores

Customers shop in a Co.op Mart in HCM City. The introduction of grocery stores is threatening traditional marketplaces. — VNA/VNS Photo Kim Phuong HCM CITY — With grocery stores in HCM City offering a barrage of promotions, increasingly more customers are abandoning traditional marketplaces.Many merchants like Large C, Sai Gon Co.opmart, Lotte Mart, and Maximart constantly offer discount rates and giveaways in exactly what is a very competitive

Japan’s convenience store to be opened tomorrow

HCMC – Japan’s Ministop convenience store chain operator will open the first Ministop store tomorrow on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street in HCMC’s District 3 as part of its ambitious plant to open 500 such stores in five years’ time.

Price-subsidized goods in stock for Tet holiday

HCMC – The volume of price-subsidized goods now in stock will meet 30%-40% of HCMC’s demand ahead of the forthcoming Tet holiday, said Le Ngoc Dao, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Industry and Trade.

Ambitious local distribution chain in final throes

Ambitious local distribution chain in final throes

Five years after its grand debut in 2006, aiming to become a powerful competitor to foreign distribution chains, the G7 Mart convenience store chain has eventually thrown in the towel

Saigon Co.op to open nine stores in next few months

Saigon Co.op to open nine stores in next few months

HCMC - Saigon Co.op, owner of Co.opMart supermarket chain and Co.op Food stores, planned to open nine supermarkets and food stores before the Lunar New Year holiday in order to meet the higher consumption demand on this occasion.

Supermarkets trail behind in discount race

Supermarkets trail behind in discount race

Though they are being sold at discount prices, many products at supermarkets in Hanoi are still more expensive than the same products sold elsewhere

US retail company to open stores in Vietnam

U.S. retail company, the Gap, Inc. on Aug. 23 revealed plans to expand into Vietnam as part of its effort to carve out a bigger spot in the global apparel market.

City awash with sales promotion stores in September

HCMC – Consumers will find the city awash with thousands of sales promotion venues next month offering discounts of up to 50% on many items and necessary services, an official said on Tuesday.

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Paris spotlights traditional festivals

Paris spotlights traditional festivals

A place of culture: A customer sights photos in an exhibition that explores traditional Vietnamese culture and festivals. The exhibition has been held in the Vietnamese Culture Center in Paris. Photo PARIS — An exhibit of 80 photos of traditional Vietnamese traditional is happening at theVietnamese Culture Center in Paris, organised through the Vietnamese community in France to celebrate the 122nd birthday from the late Leader Ho Chi Minh.The

Art auction to aid cleft palate surgery for kids

Art auction to aid cleft palate surgery for kids

With higher cause: Wild Dream, an oil on canvas painting by Ha Hung Dung, is going to be offered in a charitable organisation auction held by Operation Smile Viet Nam in HCM City now. HCM CITY — Functions by several popular artists goes underneath the hammer in an annual charitable organisation dinner in HCM City on Saturday to boost funds for carrying out cleft palate procedures for Vietnamese children, this time around in Nghe An Province.To