Tet products hit market but buyers keep away

The newly opened South Korean supermarket Lotte Mart in District 7. With Tet approaching consumption normally surges at this time but not this year.

With just over 20 days to go for Tet (Lunar New Year), businesses are busy churning out new products for the year’s top shopping season, but things are duller than normal. [...]

Students take a Tet vocation

A student (L) works as a product promoter for a company at a Ho Chi Minh City supermarket.

With the shortage of funds a chronic reality as students, many who study in big cities work hard to pave their way home for Tet.

Tet is above all a time for the entire family [...]

Companies eye more affordable Tet gifts

Figures from several supermarkets show that purchases for Tet account for up to 30 percent of their revenues in the months leading up to the holiday.

Companies are trying to squeeze Tet gifts out of their budgets despite the economic downturn as the nation’s biggest holiday approaches in January.

Nguyen Thanh Hung, marketing director [...]

Cutbacks extend to Tet holidays, wedding celebrations

Workers from Binh Duong Province’s Song Than Industrial Park buy vegetables for their daily dinner at a nearby market.

Thousands of workers are feeling the pinch after their employers stopped paying salaries, forcing them to make cutbacks on things that used to be considered ’necessities’

Nguyen Thi Hang, a worker at Vietnam Garment Technology [...]