New Year Grand Sale 2019 to kick off December 15

By THE NATION

 

 

Shopping is all set to become a whole lot cheaper over the festive season with the launch of the “New Year Grand Sale 2019” campaign.

 

Wichai Phochanakit, director-general of the Department of Internal Trade, said that following discussions with more than 20 consumer product manufacturers, department stores and retailers, provisional agreement had been reached to kick off the campaign on December 15 for a full month. The aim is help reduce the cost of living as a New Year gift for the people and according to Wichai, it will offer bigger discounts than last year or up to 80 per cent.”

 

Wichai further explained that this campaign is part of the department’s measures to alleviate people’s financial burden during economic slowdown according to Prime Minister’s policy. “Products to be featured in the campaign will include consumer products, clothes, food, OTOP and community products, and more,” he said. “The event will be held at all branches of participating department stores and retailers, which will be a good way to stimulate the economy around the year end.”

 

The Department of Internal Trade has been organizing New Year Grand Sale campaigns for five consecutive years. In 2018, more than 13,500 branches of department stores and retailers nationwide joined the campaign which lasted for 28 days. The total sales throughout the campaign amounted to Bt55 billion, with estimated cost of living reduction of around 30 per cent. The most popular items included foods and beverages, kitchenware, clothes and accessories, electrical appliances, and construction materials.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30378218

 

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11 minutes ago, webfact said:

The most popular items included foods and beverages, kitchenware, clothes and accessories, electrical appliances, and construction materials.

So just the every day items that people buy anyway around Christmas and new year , with prices increasing sometimes on a weekly basis there needs to be a more sustainable program to keep prices down especially for food .

24 minutes ago, keith101 said:

So just the every day items that people buy anyway around Christmas and new year , with prices increasing sometimes on a weekly basis there needs to be a more sustainable program to keep prices down especially for food .

Keith weekly price increases...don't you know Thailand only has an annual inflation rate of 1.2%. Must be the prices for foreigners only. 

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Products to be featured in the campaign will include consumer products, clothes, food, OTOP and community products,

But not Weetabix and other imported foreign food that should have fallen in price because of the strong baht.

This year I decided to go 'all romantic' and bought my wife 4 new tyres for her car. I'm hiding them from her by putting them on my car first.

Free toll way for the same period please.

Just watch all the prices rise before 15th December so they can drop them all again to where they were when the 'sale' starts.  Seen it happen the last three or four years, it's just a rip off and the big boys don't want to give anyone anything !