Visiting Thu Dau Mot town in these days, a lively ambience of selling and buying appears everywhere. The breath of Spring has spread across province.
Unlike muggy ambience in the daytime, Thu Dau Mot night market has become bustling with buyers. At 6 p.m, many buyers await for goods display of stalls’ owners. Ambience of selling and buying at the market has become more jubilant in the year-end days. Numerous commodities have met shoppers’ rising demand. Dung Le, the owner of ready-to-wear clothes stall, said “on the year-end days, our stalls lure many customers”.
A lively ambience at Thu Dau Mot night market.
The mobile clothes stalls list attractive prices making many people curious. Ready-to-wear clothes price at VND40-50,000 per set whilst belts are at VND20-30,000 per item. Most of shoppers are students, housewives. Dao in Phu Tho ward, said “I sometimes come to the night market to buy some essential things and most of goods at the market has a very cheap price”.
Aside from patterns and prices, quality of products is customers’ concerned issue. Through surveys at markets in Thu Dau Mot town, most of ready-to-wear clothes and spare parts are imported from the HCMC markets of An Dong, Tan Binh, Kim Bien, Cho Lon… At the Thu Dau Mot night market, goods is divided into 2 kinds with prices from VND5,000 to VND20,000 per product. Most of experienced customers are often dubious about cosmetic products being displayed across streets.
In reality, customers often think that cheapest is dearest. Therefore, the night market-based shoppers pay less attention to quality. And, advantage of sellers of and excitement of buyers create a unique image of night market. When it gets darker, the night market seems more crowded.
Reported by L.Na – Translated by A.C
