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| Customers choose school uniform at Co.opmart supermarket. Co.opmart and many other retailers are offering attractive discounts to enable customers to shop necessary items for their children at the most saving way. — VNS Photo |
HCM CITY (Biz Hub) — As the new school year approaches, supermarkets and bookstores in HCM City have launched major promotions for stationery and school supplies.
Co.opMart and Co.opXtra supermarkets nationwide are offering sharp discounts on more than 1,000 items, including student uniforms, school bags, notebooks, pens and other school supplies until August 7.
School student uniforms like white shirts, blue trousers and skirts have an average discount of 35 per cent.
While notebooks, school bags, shoes and many kinds of school supplies of familiar brands like Sanding, Viettien, Novelty, SGC, Biti's, Bita's. Miti, Thien Long and others have prices discounted up to 50 per cent.
Big C is also running a discount programme called "Hanh trang den truong" until August 8, with discounts of 15-42 per cent on more than 880 items, including student uniforms, footwear, notebooks, school bags and desk lamps, of which many are new models.
In addition to discounts on prices, the programme will also apply "buy 2 get 1 free" to certain items such as notebooks and notebook covers.
Lotte Mart supermarkets has also launched attractive discounts, including 15 per cent reduction on school uniforms, and 30 per cent discounts on pens, rulers, backpacks, notebooks, pencils and other items.
Many bookstores in HCM City, including Thang Long, Nguyen Van Cu and Fahasa, are offering 10-15 per cent discounts on textbooks, notebooks, pens and other items.
Price-stabilised programme
As in previous years, HCM City is offering goods as part of the city's price stabilisation programme, including school equipment, which will continue until March next year.
School equipment suppliers have been told to increase supply by 15-30 per cent and meet 35-50 per cent of market demand.
Fifteen enterprises have registered to offer stable prices for 28 million notebooks, 1.369 million schoolbags and backpacks, and 320,000 pairs of shoes.
Tran Ba Dung, deputy director of Huong Mi Handbags Co., Ltd, told Biz Hub that his company was assigned to offer stable prices on 600,000 backpacks and schoolbags.
The company has created many new models this year, including terrain backpacks (which are easy to pull up stairways) and backpacks that prevent back deformities, he said.
Besides providing products under the city's price stabilisation programme, the company has also supplied products to other provinces and cities nationwide.
Its wholesale volume sold to Co.opmart supermarket chain, Fahasa and PNC bookstores and first-level agents rose by 15 per cent over the same period last year, he said.
Tran Van Tac, director of Tuan Viet Shoes Co., Ltd, said the company expected to sell 60,000 products in the 2016-17 school year.
Duong Chi Thanh, general director of Vinh Tien Joint Stock Company, one of the largest manufacturers of high-quality student's notebooks and paper stationeries in Viet Nam, said the company had produced at least 20 per cent additional number of notebooks for this school year. Forty per cent are part of the price stabilisation programme. — VNS