Maintaining price-stabilized goods
Since the start of this year, despite complication of domestic market and price hike, businesses joining in the 2012 price-stability program have positively implemented plan on price stability plus promotional programs.
At Co.opMart Binh Duong, 9 groups of essential goods listed in the price-stabilized program include cooking oil, sugar, egg, pork, rice… Meanwhile, CitiMart Binh Duong has offered competitive prices of veggies and pork…
Along with implementation of selling price-stabilized goods at supermarkets, businesses bring price-stabilized goods to remote areas, industrial parks across the province. Aside from essential commodities, other items such as book, notebook and learning aid, medicine or petrol have been listed in the program.
Shortage of preferential loans
However, owing to common difficulties of economy, the provincial budget collection strongly decreased during the past 9 months, so the provincial People’s Committee suspended offering of preferential loans for the price stability program in line with Document No.1844/UBND-KTTH dated July 3, 2012.
Despite shortage of preferential loans, businesses joining in the 2012 price-stability program have still maintained sources of price-stabilized goods as committed.
Ben Cat district-based Vinatex My Phuoc director Pham Thi Thanh Loc said despite shortage of preferential loans from the State, we have set up plans of price stability for the coming months but to actively minimize risks, we hope that the State will facilitate businesses’ preferential loan approach.
In the meantime, Co.opMart Binh Duong has displayed essential items with stabilized prices. However, the supermarket’s price stability program is based on Sai Gon Co.op’s loan assistance.
Co.op Binh Duong director Vo Huu Thach, said Sai Gon Co.op has cooperated with suppliers of items such as seafood, veggies and other essential foods to offer the most stabilized prices for customers.
According to the Finance Ministry’s Management Bureau’s forecast, market price in the last 3 months of this year will jump highly, owing to the world impacts on price and natural calamity and epidemic diseases.
Therefore, units joining in the price stability program hope to approach preferential loans in a bid to ensure high results for the 2012 price stability program.
Reported by T.Huynh – Translated by A.C
