Skyrocketing pork prices are worrying many housewives but creating good chances for others to earn some more money or just to make jokes.
T-shirt producers have recently launched some new collections featuring 3D pictures of pork products. The shirts have soon attracted lots of young people and have sold like hotcakes.
Following the success of the T-shirts, coats and underwear featuring pork have also been introduced.
According to some online shops, the T-shirts and coats are among the best sellers on their Shopee e-commerce site. Customers are mostly young people.
“We’re offering a sale of 30% on these products to attract more customers,” a shop representative said. “T-shirts are being sold at VND199,000 (USD8.65) each, coats at VND259,000 (USD11.26) each.”
The shops said that they also have some other items and accessories of the same image including socks, hats or bracelets and necklaces.
However, they said that these products are imported from China, and are not always available and customers have to wait a week or ten days.
On social internet sites, many young people are showing off their items featuring pork or creating funny photos about the topic.
Pork is the main source of protein in Vietnam and accounts for about 70 per cent of meat consumed in the country, but output has fallen by 9-10 per cent, or 380,000 tonnes, compared to 2018.
Source: Dtinews