Auchan supermarket or self-esteem many people are lowering prices?

jostling, pushing each other to buy goods; After selecting the goods, they did not buy them and threw them in a chaotic mess; feel free to peel off candies, soft drinks and canned milk and then dispose of the leftovers on the shelves; staff could not manage and had to accept to look at Auchan supermarket, Ho Chi Minh City in the last days of operation in Vietnam, disintegrated…

That’s what we read in the newspapers describing the situation at Auchan supermarket – which is in a sharp sale, up to 50% of items in the past few days.

If there is only a small group of people, people can report security, from gentle reminders to applying sanctions, but here are a few hundred people, just waiting for this opportunity to rush in, in order to buy cheap goods, then there are 3 heads and 6 managers who also have to endure.

I remember jostling and jostling each other to eat a free buffet at a restaurant in Can Tho last year; The chaotic scene of fighting for free sushi in Hanoi a few years ago or pushing each other to the point of suffocation, many women in bikinis even climbed the fence to take a free bath in the West Lake water park (Hanoi) also at the beginning of summer a few years ago, but the reporter’s lens still saved “scary” images…

To buy a few things (not only this week, this month, but this whole life) there is a small discount; In order to eat this dish (not only once in life, but people will have to eat it for the rest of their lives) for free, people are willing to defy jostling, jostling, fighting, cursing each other. Why devalue your self-esteem so much?

I go to many supermarkets and am always fed up with customers, regardless of whether they are young or old, male or female, who blatantly jostle other people to pay without queuing. If it’s too urgent, you can politely say a word to get the person in front to let you pay first, why is it so difficult?

From small to large supermarkets, convenience stores, shopping centers… it is not difficult to see the scene of people sneaking up confectionery at stalls selling by kilograms to feed their children; unpaid but still sneaking grapes in the food trays or buying goods to fill the carts… quietly find a corner where there are no people, throw the cart away, leaving the supermarket staff dead at the end of each day to collect carts, put the items on the shelves.

Once, I took my daughter to a children’s sandbar in the park. Suddenly, a woman about 50 years old rushed forward, snatched the car in the hand of a child, giving it to her grandson. Another young mother ran out, pointed her finger directly at the woman’s face, and cursed at each other, indicating why she dared to rob her child’s things. Two poor children burst into tears, and two women cursed each other and rioted in the park.

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It’s time to put this sadness of Vietnamese people into textbooks

I kept thinking, what will the mothers / grandmothers in the above story teach their children and grandchildren about politeness, public culture, before talking about owning other people’s things. Likewise, in supermarkets, like Auchan, in restaurants, buffets or public swimming pools, what will parents teach their children, about culture, about self-esteem, when they are jostling, swearing, just because a meal or a towel is on sale?

“Vietnamese people are very hospitable”; “I love your country because its people are simple, close, sincere, and kind”, we still read every day kind stories about Vietnamese people, not only in our homeland but also in other lands. That let me and many people motivate themselves that the Auchan supermarket case or many other cases, is just a certain part, in a community of many people with enough self-respect and cultural standards, going against the crowd.

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