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Local products favoured for Tet gift hampers

Many local products are favoured by customers and chosen for Tet gift hampers in Ho Chi Minh City.
Local products favoured for Tet gift hampers ảnh 1Shoppers buy Tet gift hampers at a supermarket in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Many local products are favouredby customers and chosen for Tet gift hampers in Ho Chi MinhCity. 

Some regional specialties such as Binh Phuoc cashew nuts, Can Gio driedfish, Soc Trang sausage, Tra Vinh cylindric glutinous rice cake, Binh Thuanfish sauce, dried shrimp, macadamia nuts, and prawn cracker are themost popular products among customers this year.

According to many small retailers, this year customers haveprioritised buying Tet gift hampers of regional specialities with mid-rangeprices instead of expensive gift hampers that have imported products andbeautiful designs.

Many businesses and retailers in the city also promote promotionalactivities for consumers to shop early for Tet.

At Co.opmart supermarkets, the hampers are carefully selected toensure quality.

From now until January 24, 2024, at Co.opmart supermarkets, therewill be more than 2,000 Tet related products discounted by 50% ormore, along with millions of Tet gifts delivered to member customers.

Co.opmart and Co.opXtra also launched 2024 Tet gift hamperswith Co.op's own products, along with many local products.

Nguyen Ngoc Thang, Director of Co.opmart and MarketingDirector of Saigon Co.op, said that customers shopping for Tet 2024 atCo.opmart will experience many promotional activities and discounts.

Similarly, LOTTE Mart launches Tet gifthampers with affordable prices and variety of designs toreach every consumer's demands.

Besides hampers, customers also want to buy individual itemsas gifts. Retailers are also offering free packaging to customers whowant to choose products to put in gift hampers.

Shopping websites are also flooded with hampers these days, butexperts said, as always, when buying online, buyers should be careful.

During the year-end period, retailers have beendisplaying many kinds of Tet (Lunar New Year) gift hampers toserve the shopping and gifting needs of consumers.

Gift baskets from supermarkets and enterprises includetypical items for Tet such as confectionery, cooking oil, softdrinks, instant coffee, wine, and Tet jams.

Their prices range from 200,000 VND to several million VND./.
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