Officials at a groundbreaking ceremony for Co.opmart Kon Tum supermarket in Kon Tum Province on April 12. – VNS Photo Courtesy of Saigon Co.op

Leading retailer Saigon Co-op on April 12 began work on a new Co.opmart Kon Tum supermarket on Le Hong Phong Street in Kon Tum Province’s Kon Tum City.

Covering 7,000sq.m, the two-storey store will cost more than VND100 billion (US$4.38 million) and sell around 30,000 essential items, 90 per cent of them Vietnamese products.

Scheduled to open by the end of this year, the supermarket will be a distribution site for products with clear origin, assured quality and reasonable prices, said Nguyen Anh Duc, deputy director of Saigon Co.op.

Co.opmart Kon Tum will act as a conduit for the province’s specialties and other products to enter the Co.opmart chain, he said.

The new store is being built as part of an economic co-operation programme in the 2016-20 period between HCM City and Kon Tum Province. — VNS