Selling everything for zero dong, Sieu Thi Hanh Phuc (Happiness Supermarket)was launched by the provincial People’s Committee, People’s Council together with local chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, provincial Department of Trade and Industry and APEC Group.

Locals choose products at the "Happiness Supermarket” selling products for zero dong.

The store is open for one month from April 20 to May 20. It will provide necessities for poor and near-poor households and policy beneficiaries, along with freelance labourers impacted by COVID-19.

The store allows customers to choose five products such as rice, sugar, nuts, spices, salt and cooking oil, at a total cost of less than 100,000 VND (4.20 USD). Each shopper can come to the store twice a month.

At the store, customers are requied to wear face masks, have their temperature taken, wash their hands, stand two metres apart, and closely follow preventive measures.

A leader of the Hoa Binh city People’s Committee said with the spirit of taking some if you are in need – savingfor others if you are able to get by – donating if you can, the committee has called on local firms, organisations and individuals to donate essential goods at free distribution points during the social distancing period, with an aim of leaving no one behind in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic./.

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