While the Lunar New Year is coming, provincial Industry and Trade Department suggested that Number One mini supermarket network under Becamex ISC would be one of locations selling stably priced goods. With extensive coverage at industrial parks, new residential zones as its strong point, Number One mini supermarket has created conveniences for workers and residents in remote areas.  Customers were shopping at Number One mini supermarketKeeping expanding branchesBecamex ISC opened its second Number One mini supermarket at TDC Plaza tenement, Binh Duong New City in this year. Like other supermarkets within the network, TDC Plaza Number One mini supermarket sells more than 10,000 essential goods including home appliances, cosmetics, foods, drinks, sweets etc., bringing conveniences for residents, workers, businesses in Binh Duong New City, industrial zones.By now, the branch number of Number One network is 11 mini supermarkets at industrial parks, residential zones of My Phuoc, Bau Bang, Hoa Loi, VSIP etc. While the economy is facing difficulties, purchasing power is declining, this supermarket network still developes steadily and continues to increase branch number. Number One mini supermarket network’s Director Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen Duong said, Number One supermarket does not run after profits, but is to cater for the masses, stabilize human resources, and attract investments in industrial parks. Therefore, since the first mini supermarket was born at My Phuoc town in 2006, majority of local community has appreciated and favored it. Thus its network has kept expanding and is planed to be widen in the future. Being a companion of workersPreviously, workers working overtime worried that they could not buy essential items because stores and markets closed early. Currently, Number One mini supermarket with various essential goods has been a companion of workers. Worker Le Thi My working at Panko Vina Company in My Phuoc 1 industrial park is a loyal customer of the supermarket said: “We do not have to afraid of out of stock or poor-quality goods because of overtime working any more, Number One mini supermarket has become a close friend of workers”.Tran Thi Chi living at Hoa Loi social housing area (Hoa Phu ward, TDM City) said, Number One mini supermarket is really useful, because it can help workers to find quickly what they need with reasonable prices.The Department of Industry and Trade appreciated the utility of Number One mini supermarket network, thus chose this would be one of price-stabilized goods selling locations during the Lunar New Year 2014. Director Nguyen Thi Yen Duong said, because the huge demands on this big occasion, their supermarkets prepared carefully adequately to serve customers with the heart of “a worker’s companion”.Reported by V.Giang – Translated by Ngoc Huynh