In Vietnam, duty-free supermarkets now become customer-free venues
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 15:20 GMT+7
Gone are the days when people eagerly rushed to supermarkets along Vietnam’s border with Cambodia to buy duty-free goods.
Shoppers no longer find the commodities available in that area attractive, whereas supermarket operators said some policy changes have stripped them of all the preferential treatments that used to help them woo customers.
The Moc Bai Border Economic Zone, located in the area bordering Cambodia in the southern province of Tay Ninh, and Tinh Bien, its counterpart in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta, used to be the most famous destinations to buy tax-free products, with a number of busy supermarkets there.
