Proactively stabilize the year-end commodity market

To prepare for the year-end business season and the Lunar New Year 2026, most retailers have now planned to prepare goods and are working with suppliers with a commitment to not run out of goods to supply the market. Together with localities, Can Tho City also has a price stabilization plan, ensuring a balance between supply and demand of goods at the end of 2025 and the Lunar New Year 2026.

Join hands to make it happen

Representatives of retail units such as Co.opmart, MM Mega Market, GO!, LOTTE Mart... said that, up to this point, suppliers have started offering products for the end of the year; along with that, the units have planned for this business season. According to the units, the prices of goods during Tet will certainly increase compared to normal days, but they will try to negotiate with suppliers, and at the same time proactively stock up to get the best prices for customers. Regarding the source of goods, suppliers have committed that there will be no shortage at the end of the year, and there will even be discount and promotion programs for consumers.

Business activities at GO! Can Tho supermarket.

Mr. Vu Thanh Tan, communications representative of Central Retail Vietnam Group (the unit managing the Big C/GO! supermarket system), said that the unit has basically finished working with manufacturers and suppliers to prepare enough goods for the end of the year and Lunar New Year 2026. The main products are domestic goods, along with increasing imported goods to meet consumer demand. In addition to ensuring a full range of essential goods from fresh, fast-moving consumer goods, non-food products, seasonal products and gifts are focused on. Due to the advantage of trust with suppliers, experience and implementation capacity, and close coordination with local Departments of Industry and Trade, the unit helps to maintain stable prices and have competitive pricing policies.

Saigon Co.op also promotes demand at the end of the year with the program "Trust and choose Co.op - Millions of grateful deals" with many free gifts and discount and promotion programs for customers. The focus of the program is deep discounts for more than 5,000 items, mainly in the food and necessities group. The representative of this unit said that it has planned to prepare year-end and Lunar New Year goods from mid-2025. Most of the budget is prioritized for reserves of market stabilization goods including rice, sugar, cooking oil, pork, poultry, poultry eggs, processed foods, vegetables, seafood, etc.; food items, non-food items and Tet specialties. In addition to preparing abundant goods with stable prices, at the end of the year, Saigon Co.op also increases the frequency of checking goods sold in the system 2-3 times more than usual to ensure food hygiene and safety quality for consumers.

At this time, the WinMart supermarket system is having a program "Hunting for good deals - The whole family is happy". Accordingly, the discount is up to 25%, from fresh food to processed food. At the LOTTE Mart supermarket system, the promotion program "Membership privileges" is being implemented, with a 20-50% discount on many essential items. MM Mega Market Hung Loi Center applies a series of "good deals" for hundreds of products. Items with good deals include pangasius, chicken, pork, cakes, technological foods, fruits...

Ensuring market stability

On November 4, 2025, Can Tho City People's Committee issued Decision No. 2198/QD-UBND on promulgating the Program to stabilize the market of essential goods, promote trade activities in 2025, Lunar New Year 2026 in the city.

The program aims to contribute to price stabilization, ensure supply and demand of goods, meet people's needs for essential goods at the end of 2025 and Lunar New Year 2026. Implement solutions to stabilize market supply and demand and social security, respond to fluctuations in fuel supply (gasoline, gas) and raw materials for livestock, cultivation, production and export; promote goods distribution activities combined with e-commerce applications so that goods reach consumers conveniently, quickly and directly; especially in the suburbs of wards, communes, industrial parks, export processing zones, and markets in the area. At the same time, support businesses in the city to improve their competitiveness; promote Vietnamese goods, typical and specific products, and local OCOP products.

The program is divided into 2 phases. Phase 1 (from October 1 to December 31, 2025), implements commodity stabilization activities to meet people's shopping needs during the year-end holidays and New Year's Day, and reserves goods to prevent and combat natural disasters. Phase 2 (from January 1 to March 31, 2026), implements commodity stabilization activities to meet people's shopping needs for the Lunar New Year and the first holidays of the year. Participants are enterprises, cooperatives, and business households of all economic sectors.

The product groups participating in the program include foodstuffs such as rice, instant noodles, processed foods of all kinds, meat of all kinds, eggs, seafood, vegetables and fruits; groups serving the needs of Lunar New Year such as soft drinks, beer of all kinds, cakes, candies, jams; spice groups (sugar, cooking oil, sauces of all kinds, MSG, seasoning powder of all kinds); household consumer products (dishwashing liquid, detergents); other product groups proposed by enterprises and fuel groups, requiring the main enterprise to ensure adequate supply for the system of agents, affiliated stores and business traders who have fuel purchase contracts with the enterprise.

According to the Department of Industry and Trade of Can Tho City, in general, the output of rice, meat, seafood, vegetables and fruits not only ensures the consumption demand in the area, but also supplies to other provinces and cities and serves export. The business distribution centers in the city also supply many types of high-quality imported rice; imported livestock, poultry, seafood; imported vegetables and fruits. In addition, there is also a system of purchasing agricultural products, seafood and livestock and poultry meat from provinces and cities across the country to Can Tho, distributing through the market system in the area, the system of restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores, and eateries.

Currently, the system of supplying goods, food and foodstuffs to people in Can Tho city is implemented through a system of 255 markets, widely distributed throughout 103 wards and communes; 20 supermarkets (4 class 1 supermarkets; 9 class 2 supermarkets; 5 class 3 supermarkets; 2 unclassified supermarkets), 15/20 supermarkets selling general goods with fresh food; 290/325 convenience stores selling fresh goods, food, vegetables and fruits. By the end of October 2025, the program received registrations from 16 enterprises with a total value of goods reserves of more than 4,108 billion VND (of which the group of food and food is more than 327 billion VND, the group of fuel is more than 3,781 billion VND).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has also issued a decision on organizing the National Concentrated Promotion Program 2025 - Vietnam Grand Sale 2025. The program will take place from December 1, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Enterprises proactively carry out many promotional activities with diverse and attractive content aimed at customers and consumers; proactively decide to apply a maximum promotion limit of up to 100%.

The early issuance of programs and plans by localities to ensure balance of supply and demand of goods during the end of 2025 and Lunar New Year, especially with the 2025 National Concentrated Promotion Program of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, is expected to continue the success of the programs of previous years, helping to increase retail sales of goods and service revenue at the end of the year, ensuring stability for people's shopping needs during the holidays and Tet at the end of the year, contributing to achieving Vietnam's economic growth target in 2025.

Article and photos: KHÁNH NAM

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