In recent years, along with the development of industrial parks, markets for workers have loomed large across the province, meeting the local workers and people’s demand for shopping. Commodities at markets for workers are not less than those bought at large-scale ones. Special importance has also been attached to the management and organization of these markets, contributing to creating stability in business and facilitating customers’ shopping. That’s reason why they have absorbed more and more customers…
Diversification of commodities
Phu Chanh A market frequently gets crowded with customers, especially workers on the afternoons. It is known that this market begins from 16 pm to 22 pm daily.
At the food section of
the market, stalls are always full of fresh and delicious meat, vegetables,
eggs, fruits…The market’s garment and footwear section is also very attractive
to customers with eye-catching products. 
A glance of Phu Chanh A market
Whilst, at the eating and drinking section of the market, there are a lot of stalls with attractive dishes like bun rieu (noodles in crab chowder), pho (noodle soup)…To Nguyen Thi Nhung, the owner of a food stall at the market, her stall lasts untill 22 pm daily with cheap prices, so it lures more customers who are workers about here.
The market also gets animated with many mobilize stalls trading in clothes, CDs, hair-pins…
Cheap prices
Main customers of Phu Chanh A market are workers and poor laborers, so prices at the market are very cheap and reasonable. Le Thi Hoa, the owner of a cloth kiosk at Phu Chanh A market said: “Main sellers at the market are workers, so we have selected products with prices lower than those sold at shops. Hence, customers are easy to sort out commodities suitable to their financial ability…”.
Tran Thi Hien, from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, said: “I works as a worker, so my monthly salary is not much. As an alien worker, my daily cost is very great. This has made many saving money for shopping very little. But, prices at markets for workers like Phu Chanh A are very reasonable and suitable to my financial ability.
Strong purchasing power
Phu Chanh A market now has a strong purchasing power because commodities here are very plentiful with cheap prices.
Ma Van Nam said that his “sweet soup” shop is very crowded with the average profit of between VND400,000 and VND500,000 per day. Whilst, each “Pho” stall sells tens of kg of rice noodle per day; each “duck porridge” eatery also sells tens of ducks per day...
Along with its function of buying and selling, Phu Chanh A market is an useful playground for alien workers. Binh Duong is home to many industrial parks with a large number of immigrant workers, so the birth of such markets is very necessary. They not only meet workers’ demand for shopping, but also contribute to eradicating street markets that frequently cause unhygienic situation and traffic jam…
Reported by Phuong An-Translated by K.T
