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Reserves increased by 300%

These days, the Royal Seafood supermarket chain continuously imports a large amount of seafood from foreign goods such as King Crab, Canadian lobster, abalone, etc., to domestic products such as Ca Mau crab, green crab, and snail… to prepare. for the upcoming holiday.

“The holidays of April 30 and May 1 are one of the supermarket’s retail and wholesale peak periods. This year, when the city has controlled the epidemic, tourism is open, more tourists come to Ho Chi Minh City, creating favorable conditions for us to expand our service scale. Therefore, we actively increase the amount of seafood products by nearly 300% compared to normal days to serve the needs of people on this occasion,” said Mr. Tran Van Truong, General Director of Hoang Gia Seafood Supermarket. In addition, the supermarket also serves to enjoy fresh seafood on the spot for diners.

Assessing that purchasing power will increase during the holiday of April 30, Vissan Animal Industry Vietnam Joint Stock Company affirmed, always ensuring enough goods to serve the increased purchasing demand of the people. At the same time, Vissan ensures not to increase the price of goods to support consumers. “Since Tet, purchasing power has decreased deeply in both modern and traditional distribution channels. Therefore, it is expected that during big holidays, people who take a long break will spend more,” said Mr. Nguyen Ngoc An, General Director of Vissan.

Although the purchasing power is forecasted to increase compared to normal days, according to Mr. An, it is still not able to compare with the purchasing power of many years ago because Ho Chi Minh City has just experienced the COVID-19 epidemic; People’s lives are still difficult, so they “tighten their belts” more in spending. “Currently, the prices of input materials, transportation charges, gasoline, etc. have increased; However, Vissan will still try to keep the price to support people. If input prices continue to rise further, the company will reconsider,” added Mr. An.

Meanwhile, commercial centers and supermarkets are forecast to welcome a spike in the number of visitors on this occasion. To attract customers, many supermarket chains announce discounts on goods from food to household items. Specifically, the Satra system has a promotion program “Jubilant gifts – Celebrate the big holiday” from here until May 8, many products are discounted up to 50%; With bills from 99,000 VND, customers can also choose to buy rice, seasoning powder, soft drinks at a shocking discount; Co.op Mart offers 50% discount on many food and consumer goods. On this occasion, Dai Phat Food Company also opened a store with many attractive dishes; at the same time implementing the program of the same price of 48,000 VND/piece of rice; Buy 1 get 3; roast duck gift…

The market is empty of customers

Talking to the reporter of Tien Phong newspaper, Mr. Le Hoang Phong, sales manager of Hoc Mon wholesale market for agricultural products and food, forecast that the volume of goods arriving at the market during this holiday season could only reach about approx. 2,000 tons/day and night, 15-20% lower than normal.

The reason is that the food at the market is often supplied to schools and industrial kitchens. Now on holiday, these units are also closed, so small traders do not import much. Moreover, due to long holidays, families travel, so purchasing power does not increase. Although the goods to the market are less, the price is still stable. “The price of goods depends on the situation of purchasing power on holidays, if the retail market consumes strongly, the price will move up, if the goods sell slowly, the price will not increase or even decrease” – Mr. Phong shared.

Representatives of many traditional markets such as Ban Co market (District 3), Ba Chieu (Binh Thanh district), Binh Thoi market (District 11) … also admitted, usually during Tet, the number of visitors to the market is less than usual.