Market full of fresh flowers and gifts
Presents for couples such as jewelry, teddy bears, T-shirts, decorative objects and gift boxes are on sale along Luong Van Can, Lo Duc and other main streets.
A small box of domestic chocolates costs from at least
VND50,000-100,000 up to VND300,000-500,000. Imported boxes of chocolates with
particular designs are worth more than VND1 million each. 
Meanwhile, the price of roses hovers around VND10,000 per flower. A bunch of roses sells for VND150,000-250,000, and orchid goes for VND250,000-350,000. Especially, each basket of artistic flowers on order is between VND400,000-700,000.
Home-made name cards attached to gifts cost VND15,000-30,000 each while foreign ones are three or four times more expensive. Name cards made in China are fairly cheap at VND2,000-3,000 each.
Supermarket promotions
Valentine’s Day in Vietnam is celebrated with special promotion programmes at many commerce centres and supermarkets.
BigC supermarket has already offered customers a generous discount on chocolates, roses, T-shirts, and other kinds of gifts from January 26 to February 14.
Co.op Mart has also launched a sales promotion with a discount of 40 percent for over 400 products as from February 2.
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