The Hanoitimes - Different from Valentine’s Day, the market of presents for Women’s Day (March 8) features womanliness and focuses on flowers, teddy bears and cards.
The Hanoitimes - Different from Valentine’s Day, the market of presents for Women’s Day (March 8) features womanliness and focuses on flowers, teddy bears and cards.
Fresh flower prices increase
Many flower shops along Kim Ma, Buoi and Tran Duy Hung streets in
A flowershop owner in
She also emphasised that these prices may go even higher on March 8.
Diversified presents and sales promotions
Unlike fresh flowers, the prices of teddy bears, hair-pins and telephone covers don’t change, and some are even enjoying special discounts.
Pham Quang Hung, a shop owner in
Mr. Hung said students are key customers, a small teddy bear goes for VND100,000-200,000 and bigger ones cost VND400,000-500,000. A frame for a photograph sells for around VND30,000-200,000, but a hair-pin is cheaper at only VND20,000-100,000.
More suitable for students are cards, which are both inexpensive and have a lot of meaning. The price of a card hovers around VND3,000-7,000 for a small one, VND10,000-20,000 for a medium sized one and VND20,000-40,000 for the largest ones.
Cosmetics, clothes and footwear are also popular, but mainly with people that have a higher income, because they can be quite pricey, from several hundred to over a million VND.
To attract customers, many shops bring out special offers on Mother’s Day such as free gift wrapping and giving cards to customers who buy high value items. Some trading centres and supermarkets offer a series of sales promotions on March 8.
Media Mart will give 8,300 presents to women who buy their goods between 10am and 11.30am on March 8. Or women shopping in the Vincom trading centre in Hanoi and buy items worth more than VND1 million, will have the opportunity to take part in a lucky draw for some valuable presents.
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