With only three days to go for Tet (the Lunar New Year), Co.opmart and Co.opXtra supermarkets around the country are increasingly offering discounts, causing them to be always crowded with shoppers.

Fresh foods are the biggest sellers.

So, from now until New Year Eve (February 11), many fresh foods and ready-to-eat dishes are being sold at discounts of 15-35 per cent at more than 100 Co.opmart and Co.opXtra supermarkets.

For instance, fruits used as offerings in five-fruit trays like buoi duong la cam (pomelo with orange leaf), dragon fruit, black raisin, yellow papaya, and red apple, are sold at a discount of 15 per cent, round seedless watermelons and red pineapples are discounted by 20 per cent and vegetables such as broccoli and cucumber, by 35 per cent.

The prices of minced pork and pork cuts are discounted by 15 per cent, and braised meat with eggs and pork-stuffed bitter melon soup are also reduced by 15 per cent. Roasted chicken costs VND99,000 per kilogramme.

Also at this time Co.opmart and Co.opXtra are offering big discounts on processed foods and regional Tet specialties: a 1kg pack of Vissan pork paste is reduced to VND185,000, a 200gr pack of 10 Lai Vung Giao Tho fermented pork rolls cost VND23,800, a 500gr pack of G Fed green chili pork paste is discounted to VND91,600, a 400gr box of Vu Dai Co.op Select braised carp fish costs VND219,000, a 450gr box of APT dried shrimp is reduced to VND73,000, a 450gr glass jar of Song Huong pickled vegetables costs VND40,500, a 510gr box of Thuan Phat fermented tofu costs VND23,500 and a 150gr pack of vegetarian pork costs VND39,000.

Under the ‘Buy more, get more discounts’ programme from now until New Year’s Eve, customers can buy a variety of packaged food items, soft drinks and cleaning products at extremely low prices with certain products in fact given away for free.

When buying a second item, a 500ml Budweiser can has been reduced from VND27,500 to VND15,500, a 85gr bottle of Nestle Yogu yogurt drink costs VND2,500, a 250gr pack of Meizen premium vegetarian instant noodles has been reduced from VND16,400 to VND4,500, and a 1.5l bottle of Mirinda orange/7up / pepsi costs VND10,000.

The products with the biggest discounts are a pack of 80 pieces of Mamamy wet tissues reduced from VND39,000 to zero for the second item and a 3.8kg bag of Lix matic laundry liquid with perfume scent reduced from VND199,000 to zero for the second, fourth and sixth items. — VNS