Big appetite for bargains on last day of expo

Nickkita Lau The Standard 08/18/2009 15:07

The Food Expo has proved a huge success, with the traditional final-day rush pushing the attendance up 15 percent on last year to 350,000.

Retailers reported a jump in sales as a crowd of mostly housewives on the hunt for bargains filled the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on day five of the expo.

Hong Kong Trade Development Council assistant executive director Raymond Yip Chak- ya expressed satisfaction after the five-day crowd easily eclipsed last year's 314,000.

Expo debutant Sun Wah Japanese Food, which sold Japanese snow crabs at less than half the retail price, had to refill its shelves three times just to meet demand.

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