Shops offer students cheap books
Shops offer students cheap books
As a new school year approaches, students and families nation-wide are hoping to take advantage of promotions to cut expenses during difficult economic times.
It is a time when they scour all media for details of deals being offered by different supermarkets and bookstores.
On the other hand, supermarkets and bookstores are hoping they can boost sales of stationery and other items by attracting as many customers as possible to their stories before schools open.
To this end, they have launched promotions specifically targeting the back-to-school crowd.
The Co.opMart supermarket chain, for instance, has co-ordinated with its partners to offer discounts of up to 47 per cent on 800 items, including student uniforms, notebooks, pens, other school supplies.
It will also set aside about VND4 billion (US$140,000) to present 800,000 notebooks as gifts to shoppers on July 20-21 under its "Vo xinh chung em den truong" (We go to school with nice notebooks) programme.
Accordingly, all its stores in HCM City will present eight 96-page Co.opMart brand notebooks for every invoice of VND500,000 ($23) and above. Those with invoices of VND300,000 ($14) and above at Co.opmart stores outside HCM City will receive five of the same notebooks.
French supermarket chain Big C is also running a discount programme called "Cung be toi truong" (Go to school with kids) until July 22.
The programme offers special discounts of five-50 per cent on more than 700 items including notebooks, pens, uniforms and school bags.
Many bookstores in HCM City, including Thang Long, Nguyen Van Cu, Van Lang and Gia Dinh, are offering 10-15 per cent discounts on textbooks, notebooks backpacks and other items.
Nguyen Thi Hong Van of Binh Thanh District said she usually buys all school supplies for her son under a Big C promotion programme that helps her save 20-30 per cent on their market prices.
Big C has also announced that in a special effort to help disadvantaged children, it will collect used clothes and books for 2-12 year olds at all its 24 outlets nation-wide.
Donors will be awarded 1,000 "Big Xu" points on their member cards for each book contributed and a VND10,000 ($0.4) voucher for each shirt or pair of trousers.
Big C has said it will attempt to hold the "world's biggest clothes collection day" at its Long Bien outlet in Ha Noi on July 21.
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