With just around one month to go to the Tet festival, which will begin on 5 February, many of Da Nang’s supermarkets and retailers are busy preparing for Tet goods for customers. The majority of their goods are confectionery, alcohol and beverage products, and processed foods, and all of them are all in eye-catching designs.

Various types of Tet products being displayed at the Co.op Mart

In particular, the Dien Bien Phu Street-located Co-op Mart supermarket has stockpiled around 4,000 tonnes of food and consumer goods totalling over 80 billion VND, a rise of 10% against the same period last year, in order to supply local residents over the upcoming festival.

Best-selling products are expected to be fruits, vegetables, fresh fish and pork, Tet specialities, and beverages.

Mr Phan Thong, the supermarket’s Director, remarked, from now until the Tet festival, his supermarket will continue to supplement more Tet goods in a bid to meet the increasing demand of local residents.

“My unit plans to extend its opening hours and increase the number of employees in order to provide better services for our customers”, he added.

The BigC Mall is seeing a 20% increase in the consumption of Tet goods against the same period last year. Its best-sellers include different types of beer and wine, candies, cakes, fashionable clothes, and household appliances.

According to a spokesperson for the Vingroup, there are a total of 95 Vinmart+ convenience stores across the city, and these stores have already made plans to stockpile Tet goods in order to ensure sufficient supplies of safe, high-quality goods for local shoppers.

In addition to fresh food and fruits, many types of Tet flowers and imported confectionery products will be displayed for sale at these stores.

In order to offer a wide range of Tet goods to shoppers, Big C Mall representatives have to negotiate with food suppliers to ensure sufficient supplies of essential Tet goods at reasonable prices.

In a similar vein, small traders touting for business at such many traditional markets across the city as Con, Han, Moi, Dong Da and Hoa Cuong, have taken the initiative to stockpile Tet goods to ensure sufficient supplies for local residents.

According to the Management Board of the Hoa Cuong wholesale market, around 10 days to go to Tet, the Hoa Cuong Wholesale Market is likely to receive an average of up to 1,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetables per day, a 3-fold rise compared with normal days.

Amongst, diversified types of fruit are mainly sourced from Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Tien Giang, Tay Ninh and Binh Thuan, whilst vegetables come from Lam Dong, Gia Lai, Quang Nam, Bac Ninh and Nghe An provinces.

Notably, many of the city’s businesses, supermarkets and traders have already spent around 1,600 billion VND in total on stockpiling food and consumer goods ready to supply local residents over the Tet Festival.

In detail, 12 of local large businesses have stored various types of goods, worth over 363 billion VND in total.  The products include 255 tonnes of rice and glutinous rice, 2,151 tonnes of different types of meat, 264 tonnes of vegetables and fruit, and 2,000 tonnes of processed and dried products.

Meanwhile, a total of around 750 billion VND has been used to stockpile Tet goods by traders in 8 major local markets.  They are the markets of Han, Con, Dong Da, Moi, Hoa Cuong Wholesale, Sieu Thi, Hoa Khanh, and Tho Quang Seafood Wholesale.

The remaining around 500 billion VND has been spent on storing essential consumer products by traders at local specialised shopping areas.

As planned, meat will be sold under market price stabilisation programme at 14 locations in local busy areas between 2 and 4 February. The meat will be stored by the Dac Vinh Company and the city branch of the CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company.

In addition, sales programmes for processed meat products of the city branch of the Viet Nam Industrial Livestock Production Company (VISSAN) will be organised at 4 markets nearby busy residential areas.