Accordingly, enterprises ensure to reserve and supply goods in sufficient quantity and quality as required. Essential items to serve the shopping needs of people during the Covid-19 pandemic situation include: Food (rice, sticky rice, etc.); processed food (sugar, milk, monosodium glutamate, instant noodles, cooking oil, dipping sauce, beverage, confectionery, candy, etc.); fresh food (cattle and poultry meat, chicken eggs, duck eggs, etc.); petroleum products; goods for pandemic prevention and control (masks, medical equipment for pandemic prevention and control, etc.).
The total value of regularly stocked goods in the supermarket's warehouses always ensures about 685.5 billion VND of the 11 participating supermarkets, excluding petroleum, medicine, masks, medical equipment for pandemic prevention and control.
Regarding the supply of cattle and poultry meat, eggs, it is expected that the number of cattle and poultry will be supplied to the local market: Buffalo and beef meat 2,250 tons/month; pork 7,500 tons/month; poultry meat 3,750 tons/month; poultry eggs 40,000,000 eggs/month. Stabilizing the market of vegetables, tubers and fruits of all kinds by connecting supply and demand with enterprises inside and outside the province.
Assigning 2 petroleum enterprises, Thanh Le General Import Export Trading Corporation and Petrolimex Song Be Co.,Ltd to undertake full supply for the entire petroleum system in the province with the expected quantity to increase from 10% - 12% over the same period.
Assigning units that are implementing Plan no. 1749/KH-UBND dated April 10, 2020 of the Provincial People's Committee on preferential loans to produce masks and medical equipment to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, including: Sen Viet Medical Supplies Co., Ltd, Branch of Dinh Huong Phat Trading Production Co., Ltd, Nalt Garment Co., Ltd, HTC Joint Stock Company to ensure sufficient number of services at hospitals and community residents.
Binh Duong ensures the supply of essential goods to serve the people. Photo: Phuc Tuong
Regarding the plan to supply goods at enterprises, currently, MM Mega Market supermarket has provided 70% for enterprises in industrial parks in the province.
In residential areas, organizing in the form of arranging mobile vending carts or establishing points of sale of essential goods to sell directly to people at post offices and cultural post offices in communes, wards and towns, the points of sale when there is an additional need introduced by the locality.
If the traditional market is not locked down, business activities can be carried out, but the area must be disinfected for 3 days; retail traders have negative tests within 03 days; with warning tapes to ensure that the distance between the seller and the buyer is at least 2m; selling publicly posted prices, selling at the right price.
Particularly for the locked down areas, the Steering Committee for pandemic prevention and control at district and commune levels, depending on the actual situation in the locality, actively arranges to receive orders from people in different forms such as: online, Google form, paper, etc. to arrange the forces to the post office to buy and receive goods on behalf of people. Encouraging people to increase online shopping with online phone numbers or supermarket apps on their phones.
Full range of fresh vegetables, tubers and fruits on store shelves
Representatives of supermarkets in Binh Duong province said that supermarkets have increased by 50-100% of essential items such as sugar, rice, instant noodles, cooking oil, salt, dry food and especially pandemic prevention and control items such as gels, hand sanitizers, medical cloth masks. At the same time, they are willing to extend the opening time to serve the maximum needs of consumers, so people should not hoard goods and avoid the situation of large gatherings at some distribution points. In addition to ensuring a stable supply of goods, in the face of the current complicated situation, commercial centers, supermarkets, and convenience stores also continue to improve the level of pandemic prevention and control, in order to ensure no disruption to the supply chain of goods.
As noted by reporters at some supermarkets and convenience stores, currently the supply of goods in Binh Duong is abundant, the retail system has actively stocked essential goods, ready to serve people in accordance with each different anti-pandemic scenario. Essential items of food, foodstuffs and necessities at wholesale markets, commercial centers, supermarkets are abundant, prices of essential items have not increased.
Binh Duong is making efforts to both prevent and control the pandemic while ensure a sufficient supply of goods to serve all needs of the people. Therefore, people should not be too worried, leading to unnecessary food and foodstuff hoarding, causing market instability. Especially in the complicated situation of the pandemic, the number of cases in the community increases, people should not gather in large numbers at supermarkets and shops to spread the pandemic.
Here are some pictures of Binh Duong Portal recorded at some supermarkets and shops on the morning of June 17, 2021:
Abundant and diverse goods to meet the essential needs of the people
Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang