The People’s Committee of HCMC has approved the proposal on allowing employees of supermarkets and convenience stores in the city to go out between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. to prepare commodities, clean and disinfect their commercial spaces.
HCMC citizens are complaining about the long and crowded queues at grocery shopping locations, while supermarkets struggle to anticipate the flow of shoppers and stock shelves on time.
Local celebrities line up at big supermarkets every 8am in Phu Nhuan district, district 10 and district 11 (HCMC) to grocery shop for people during the Covid-19 outbreak.
There is only a week left before the peak business season of the year ends. The Tet market this year has seen fierce competition among producers by reducing the price of their products and giving valuable gifts, some products are even sold at cost prices in order to boost consumption.
According to the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City, since the beginning of this year, total goods retail sales and service revenues were estimated at nearly VND600 trillion, an increase of 12.2 percent over the same period last year while it was 12.5 percent last year.
A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted murder.
