As expected, the total amount of goods reduced prices supplied by Saigon Co.op cooperating with suppliers and production units to support consumers, due to the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel Coronavirus (nCoV), is 12,000 tons of agricultural and aquatic products, of which 6,000 tons of western farmers who have difficulties in product consumption, and 6,000 tons of essential products and food.
Accordingly, the system of supermarkets Co.opmart, Co.opXtra, Co.op Food of Saigon Co.op across the country have started to reduce selling price of agricultural and aquatic products, especially vitamin-C-boosting items that helps increase user's body resistance. The most discounted items are Co.op Select 's products with seedless fresh lemon, fresh bananas, green-skin pomelo, chicken eggs, spring rolls, cabbage, mushrooms... with a discount of 15 - 20% compared with the previous selling price. Currently, the volume of safe pork meeting VietGAP standards at Co.opmart, Co.opXtra, Co.op Food supermarkets is still stable, these supermarkets is reducing prices from 20,000 to 40,000 VND / kg - equivalent to a 15% discount for all kinds of ham, bone types and young pork ribs.
Earlier, Saigon Co.op provided more than 5 million qualified medical masks and did not raise prices. Saigon Co.op now supplies 200,000 facemasks each day at a constant price to help people protect themselves and their families from the pandemic.
Reported by Thoai Phuong - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
