In recent days, social networks in Lang Son have been stirred up by the incident in which a parent reported that an imported fruit store was selling 3 clusters of Korean milk grapes for 1.5 million VND/cluster, a total of 4.5 million VND.
Accordingly, Facebook account Vi Dung posted a status sharing: "The guys asked me if this price was reasonable? The 4.5 million VND Korean milk pot includes 3 groups of fruit with khoi and quy, all of which are advertised as imported fresh fruits".
Sharing with PV of Lao Dong Newspaper, Ms. Dung said that she placed the fruit at an imported fruit shop called Huong Dang Fruit shop on Tam Thanh Street (old Lang Son City) to celebrate her daughter's birthday. In addition to Korean milk grapes, she also bought honey plums, melons and cherries.
The sales invoice clearly shows that Korean milk grapes are 1.5 million VND/cube (3 clusters of 4.5 million VND); plums are 250,000 VND/kg; melons are 180,000 VND/kg; cherries are 700,000 VND/kg. The total value of the order is nearly 8.5 million VND.
It is worth mentioning that, according to Ms. Dung, despite paying a fairly high price, the grapes show signs of spoiling and are no longer fresh.
Cherries are also uneven, "heavy, lackluster", and are even suspected of mixing old and new.
"Immediately after responding to the store, the store refunded me 500,000 VND and said it was the staff's packaging, not the store owner's fault, and the prices of the items remained unchanged," Ms. Dung said.
The article quickly attracted many comments. Many people expressed sympathy, saying that they had also bought goods at this store during Tet but the quality was not as advertised.
A customer also said that she had bought 2 nanas for a total of 900,000 VND at this store.
Another person also said that recently, when a partner ordered a fruit basket to celebrate the 10th birthday of her cosmetics store chain, they were also "ripped off" by this store with fruit baskets worth 4.5 million VND with bunches of wine with rot.
An account commented: " My cherry is sticky, the standard price is only about 198,000 VND/kg. In the past, I sold a whole weight, so I knew that price was too expensive.
Another person said: "This time the cherry blossoms are expensive but the delicious variety is only about 500,000 VND/kg".
On August 28, speaking with reporters, Mr. Dang Van Ngoc - Head of the Market Management Department of Lang Son province - said that the market management force had stepped in to verify and would provide specific information after the inspection results were available.
