Beware of promotional items
(Baonghean.vn) -The end of the year, with many important holidays such as Christmas and New Year, is an opportunity for stores to open promotions with many attractive discount programs...
Walking along the streets of Vinh City, almost every street has one or two discount stores. Most of these are fashion stores, followed by phones, and then household goods.
Stepping into the Mello office fashion store on Nguyen Van Cu Street, customers are very excited with many office products at reasonable prices. And although the store has only been open in Vinh for less than 3 months, this time the prices of all products have been reduced to 100,000 VND.
Clothing is one of the most heavily discounted items.
On the first floor of Bic C supermarket, where many domestic fashion brands are concentrated such as Ninomaxx, Maxx - style, John - Henrny, Alcado, Winni, Owen, An Phuoc, May 10... almost every store has discounted goods, from 10 - 20% to 50 - 70%. In particular, Maxx - Style and Nino Maxx stores are having an attractive "clearance" period with each product such as shirts, jeans, and dresses priced at only 50,000 VND.
On Le Hong Phong Street, many fashion stores also have big promotions with discounts across the board. Regarding electronics, the "Mobile World" store has a promotion to exchange old phones for smartphones, the Plaza electronics supermarket has 1,000 gifts for customers on the occasion of Christmas. At the Hong Ha electronics supermarket, there is a "Big Sale" promotion on the occasion of Christmas for customers who purchase from December 3rd to February 10th, 2013 with preferential prices and many accompanying accessories.
With so much information about promotions, the majority of consumers love to buy goods at the end of the year. Especially with big brands, products of reputable companies, this is an opportunity to buy genuine goods at prices from only one-third to one-half.
However, with promotional goods, customers also need to be careful because there are many stores that, although they hang promotional signs to "attract" customers, when they come in, they find that the majority of these goods are large-sized, old goods, inventory or goods from previous seasons. Besides, many stores also hang "promotion" signs, but they deliberately raise the prices of the items, then hang discount signs, but in fact the prices remain unchanged. Therefore, according to the experience of Ms. Hang (Hung Phuc Ward - Vinh City): During promotional periods, you should only buy goods from reputable brands because these stores often sell at listed prices. When buying, customers can compare old and new prices to choose the right product. In addition, with goods from these brands, the purpose of discounting is to stimulate consumption and to thank customers, so a discount period of these stores only lasts from 5 to 10 days, so customers must go during the period to enjoy the promotion. After the promotion, the prices of the products will return to the original listed prices.
Particularly for electronic products, customers need to consult before buying because many items in supermarkets are said to be "discounted" but in fact are high or only equal to the retail price in small stores. Meanwhile, discounted items are often not exchangeable or returnable. For food products, it is necessary to closely monitor the expiration date, especially canned goods or fresh goods, because most promotional items are short-lived and difficult to sell.
It is known that for the authorities, monitoring promotions only stops at price management, while the quality and origin of products are still largely left unchecked.
My Ha
