Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Traditionally, fresh flowers are among the top gifts on the occasion.
Shops at the Ho Thi Ky Flower Market in District 10 are selling a wide range oflocally grown orchids, lilies, roses, sunflowers, carnations, and other flowersand imports from Ecuador, the Netherlands, South Africa, and elsewhere such asroses, hippeastrums and allium globemasters to offer customers more choices.
Chi Dien, a shop owner there, said customers could choose bouquets at pricesranging from a few thousand to millions of dong.
Others said sales had increased sharply in recent days as had prices, and wouldincrease further on March 8.
Flower shops in Districts 3, 5 and 10 are also selling bouquets besides fruitssuch as strawberries and cherries that cost from 600,000 VND (25.4 USD) to over2 million VND (84.8 USD).
Fashion and cosmetics shops on Nguyen Trai, Hai Ba Trung and Nguyen Dinh Chieu andLe Van Sy streets are decked out in promotion banners.
Tailor shops have been offering discounts of up to 50 per cent on clothes andstitching a traditional long dress.
Supermarkets have introduced a wide range of products for International Women’sDay and are offering promotions to attract buyers.
Saigon Co.op is offering discounts of up to 40% on more than 830 beautyproducts such as lipstick, skin care cream, body lotion, shampoo, and clothesat its Co.opmart, Co.opXtra, Co.op Food, Co.op Smile, Cheers, Finelife, andCo.oponline.
Women members shopping at Co.opmart and Co.opXtra on March 8 will get up to 300reward points depending on bill value.
Besides the system-wide programme, each of Saigon Co.op’s retail brands havetheir own.
Another supermarket chain, WinMart, is also offering attractive promotions onmany cosmetic and personal care products under its "Nhan sac thang hang – Ronrang san sale" promotion week.
E-commerce platforms, commercial banks, travel companies, restaurants, andothers have also rolled out promotion programmes for women customers.
Sacombank has launched a promotional programme worth 6 billion VND (253,040 USD)for women with thousands of gifts in cash and vouchers for dining, fashion andbeauty services, and other privileges between March 1 and 8.
Women applying for a Visa credit card will get the issuance, cash withdrawaland annual fees waived. Transactions of 1 million VND in the first month usingthe card will get them a refund of 500,000 VND.
At Viet Capital Bank, women customers making a savings deposit of 10 million VNDor more for six to 15 months will get an extra 0.38 percentage point.
Those opening a current account from March 6 to 10 can get their preferredaccount number for free./.
VNA
