Vietnamese goods absent from Thai-owned supermarketsVietNamNet Bridge - The shelves at Thai-owned supermarkets such as MM Mega Market and Big C are full of foreign-made products, while the products bearing Vietnamese brands are sparse. The director of a fish sauce company complained that his products had been ‘dislodged’ from the MM Mega Market. The shelves at Thai-owned supermarkets such as MM Mega Market and Big C are full of foreign-made products, while the products bearing Vietnamese brands are sparse. The discount rate is ‘too high’ said Lam, who believes that if the supermarkets raise the discount rate, Vietnamese enterprises cannot bring their goods to the supermarkets. Previously, the sale through MM Mega Market and Big C brought 30 percent of Saigon Food’s revenue, but now brings 20 percent only.

Source: VietNamNet News August 29, 2018 09:22 UTC