At some supermarkets and convenience stores in Ho Chi Minh City, there are people queuing and gathering to buy and stockpile food.
Supermarket chains call on people to stay calm, the supermarkets still have plenty of goods, but the hoarding of goods by people makes it difficult for supermarkets to stabilize their stock at this time.
Confirming with VOV reporters, a representative of Saigon Co.op said that the situation of customer congestion and queuing to shop occurred locally at some supermarkets in some areas, especially in Thu Duc City. These supermarkets then quickly replenished their supply of goods and made efforts to guide people to ensure epidemic prevention when shopping.
Also according to the representative of Saigon Co.op, today, a large amount of fresh meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits have arrived at nearly 300 supermarkets, Co.opmart, Co.opXtra, Co.op Food stores in Ho Chi Minh City and increased by more than 30% compared to the previous days. In addition to the large reserves of rice, noodles, dried foods, frozen foods, chilled meat, price-stabilized goods... Saigon Co.op will ensure the supply of goods to the market for the next 3 to 6 months.
Vegetables are abundant and listed at stable prices at supermarkets in the Saigon Co.op system.
Crowded shopping also occurred at other supermarkets and convenience stores in the Satra, Bach Hoa Xanh, VinMart systems... when many people spread false information about the closure of the entire city. Representatives of these supermarkets also confirmed that goods are still very regular, even increasing delivery to stores, some stores double the usual days to serve people.
In addition, supermarket systems are promoting sales on applications and websites, helping people have a shopping channel to avoid contact, ensuring disease prevention. However, due to the large number of orders sent to the system causing congestion, the shipping parties are still working hard to resolve the remaining orders. Therefore, information about shortages of goods leading to slow delivery is completely unfounded.
In one of the areas with a high number of Covid-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Tan district, people are shopping steadily, lining up in a distance at most stores.
Employees at a store continuously arrange vegetables on shelves to meet customer demand.
Mr. Vuong Huu Dung, a resident of An Lac Ward, Binh Tan District, said that in recent days, he has been shopping regularly to support people in quarantine areas. The general situation is that vegetables and eggs are chosen by many people so they quickly run out of stock, but they will be quickly replenished by supermarkets and stores.
“Currently, I am supporting people in the blockaded and quarantined areas. There has been no congestion in shopping in recent days. People line up to shop, there are no rumors of people rushing to shop and causing disorder in supermarkets and stores in the area,” said Mr. Dung.
Supermarket chains have called on people to stay calm and not rush to shop because the goods are always guaranteed. Collecting and hoarding many goods at the same time will generally affect the stability of goods in supermarkets and stores.
According to VTC News