Supermarkets in Vietnam: the chains, what they cost and where they are

A basket of 12 everyday items (milk, eggs, water, beer, instant noodles, coffee, rice, toilet paper) cost 513,300 ₫ (~$19.70) in WinMart's online store on 23 October 2026 and 523,300 ₫ (~$20.10) on Co.op Online. That's a 2% gap, and one rice promotion creates it: leave the rice out and Co.op comes out cheaper.

The rest of this page covers how the chains differ, which of them actually have a store in your beach town according to their own lists, what's worth buying at a market instead, how to pay and what's open at night. For souvenirs and things to take home, see what to buy in Vietnam.

Which supermarket chains Vietnam has and how they differ

Vietnam has five big supermarket chains: WinMart (Vietnamese, Masan group), Co.opmart (Vietnamese, Saigon Co.op), Lotte Mart (Korean), GO! (Thai-owned Central Retail, formerly Big C) and AEON (Japanese). Next to them you'll find MM Mega Market, a wholesale-and-retail chain, and Bách Hóa Xanh, a grocery chain. In our basket WinMart and Co.op came out almost the same; we couldn't price the other chains. What separates the chains most visibly is store size and which cities they're in.

It helps to think in three tiers. At the top are hypermarkets and malls: Lotte Mart, GO!, AEON Mall, MM Mega Market. You go there for the big shop, groceries and non-food under one roof.

Then supermarkets: Co.opmart, WinMart and Tops Market. Full grocery range and household goods, no mall around them.

And the corner stores: WinMart+, Bách Hóa Xanh, Circle K, GS25 and the rest. Water, snacks, noodles, beer, eggs, sometimes vegetables. According to Masan, WinMart+ alone had 3,844 stores at the end of February 2026: 1,781 in cities and 2,063 in rural areas.

Bách Hóa Xanh opened its first Hanoi store in 2026. MWG management says the chain plans 1,000 new stores this year, half of them in the north and centre of the country.

Which chain is in which city

Nha Trang, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi have nearly every big chain. Phu Quoc and Da Lat have far fewer. The table below is built from each chain's official store list (October 2026). For GO! it relies on OpenStreetMap, because the chain's full store list couldn't be retrieved from its website.

"—" means the city isn't on that chain's official list. In the administrative reform of 1 July 2025, Binh Duong and Ba Ria–Vung Tau provinces became part of Ho Chi Minh City (more in our admin reform explainer). So the HCMC counts include those stores: six for Lotte Mart (four city stores plus Binh Duong and Vung Tau), five for MM Mega Market (plus Binh Duong and Vung Tau) and seven for AEON (three of them in former Binh Duong). WinMart counts stores by the old provinces: 297 covers old HCMC only, and for Hoi An, Cam Ranh and Da Lat you can only see that the chain has shops in town, not how many.

Nha Trang

Nha Trang has two Lotte Marts: the main one at Số 58, Đường 23/10 and Lotte Mart Nha Trang Gold Coast on floors 3–4 of the Gold Coast mall (01 Trần Hưng Đạo). Co.opmart is at 02 Lê Hồng Phong. GO! Nha Trang (4 đường 19/5 per OpenStreetMap) was one of the first five Big C hypermarkets to reopen under the new name, on 31 December 2020. MM Mega Market sits on the western edge. The chain's site still uses the old address, xã Vĩnh Trung; under the new system it's Phường Tây Nha Trang. There's no AEON. Maps and what to buy where: Nha Trang shopping guide.

Phu Quoc

Phu Quoc doesn't appear on the store lists of Lotte Mart, Co.opmart, AEON or WinMart, and we couldn't check GO!'s list. MM Mega Market has only a logistics centre on the island, not a store. OpenStreetMap shows three King Kong Mart stores (on Trần Hưng Đạo, in Sonasea and a mini format) and an An Khang pharmacy, and no other chain supermarkets. Island background is in our Phu Quoc guide.

Phan Thiet and Mui Ne

Lotte Mart and Co.opmart are in Phan Thiet itself, not in the Mui Ne resort strip. Lotte Mart is in the Hùng Vương I neighbourhood and Co.opmart at 1A Nguyễn Tất Thành. OpenStreetMap also shows two Co.op Food stores and a Bách Hóa Xanh in town. Getting there and what to buy: Phan Thiet shopping.

Cam Ranh, Da Lat, Hoi An

Cam Ranh has a Co.opmart at 2038 Đại Lộ Hùng Vương; details in Cam Ranh shopping. Da Lat has no Co.opmart: the chain runs five stores in Lam Dong province, none of them in Da Lat. What you do get there is GO! Da Lat (07:30–22:00 per OSM), WinMart+ and Bách Hóa Xanh. Hoi An has no Lotte Mart, Co.opmart, MM or AEON, only WinMart+ and Bách Hóa Xanh. For Lotte Mart or Co.opmart, people head to Da Nang, which has shops for every budget.

What a grocery basket costs at WinMart and Co.op

The 12 items cost 513,300 ₫ (~$19.70) in WinMart's online store and 523,300 ₫ (~$20.10) on Co.op Online on 23 October 2026. Nine of them are the same brand and pack size in both chains. Eggs, bread and bananas are the closest equivalents from different producers, and they're marked in the table. WinMart prices are for its Times City store in Hanoi, which the site shows by default. Co.op Online uses its own default store and doesn't name it until you enter a delivery address.

What the table tells you:

• The chain barely matters. Without the rice, Co.op comes out 29,100 ₫ (~$1.10) cheaper; with it, WinMart wins by 10,000 ₫ (~$0.40).
• The promotion matters more. At Co.op, 7 of the 12 items were on sale, at WinMart 2. The ST25 rice at WinMart was half its regular price.
• Own brands are cheaper. Two-ply WinMart Home toilet paper (10 rolls) cost 39,200 ₫ (~$1.50) against 116,900 ₫ for three-ply Elène. Co.op is the same story: Co.op Select, 10+2 rolls, 75,500 ₫ (~$2.90).

For a cross-check, Numbeo's Vietnam averages on 22 October 2026 were 38,673 ₫ for a litre of milk (range 30,000–50,000 ₫), 12,999 ₫ for 1.5 L of water (10,000–20,000 ₫) and 29,126 ₫ for a kilo of bananas (15,000–50,000 ₫). The chain prices sit inside those ranges, except Aquafina at Co.op (9,600 ₫), just under the bottom of the range. How this adds up to a weekly or monthly budget is in Vietnam prices and our trip budget. We couldn't price Bách Hóa Xanh, Lotte Mart, GO! or MM: their online stores wouldn't load.

Prices taken from winmart.vn and cooponline.vn on 23.10.2026. They'll differ in your city and on another day: promotions change every week.

What to buy at a supermarket and what at a market

At a supermarket the price is on the tag and it's the same for everyone; at a market it's quoted to you personally. So the rule is simple: anything packaged, with a label and a barcode, buy at a chain. Fresh and sold-by-weight goes to the market, if you're up for haggling.

At a chain:

• milk, yoghurt, packaged coffee, noodles, water and beer: you know the price in advance and there are often promotions;
• household goods, toilet paper, nappies, mosquito repellent;
• coffee and tea as gifts when a factory-sealed pack matters (see what to buy in Vietnam);
• bulk packs: MM Mega Market.

At a market:

• fruit, herbs, fish and seafood. Use the chain price as your anchor: bananas were 22,000–29,000 ₫ a kilo in the two online stores;
• things sold by weight: dried fish, spices, nuts.

Markets run on cash and small notes, and haggling is expected. How to haggle and which markets are worth the trip: markets and customs. What fruit to buy in season: Vietnamese fruit.

Convenience stores: Circle K, GS25, 7-Eleven and the rest

Is there 7-Eleven in Vietnam? Yes, but mostly in Ho Chi Minh City, where it arrived in 2017; Hanoi got its first stores only in mid-2025. GS25 and FamilyMart follow a similar pattern. In beach towns their place is taken by WinMart+ and Bách Hóa Xanh.

OpenStreetMap shows no GS25, Ministop or 7-Eleven in Nha Trang, Hoi An, Phan Thiet or Da Lat. It shows three Circle Ks in Nha Trang and one in Da Nang. A missing map pin isn't proof a store doesn't exist. Still, outside HCMC and Hanoi don't count on a Thailand-style 7-Eleven on every corner.

What they're good for: water, beer, noodles, snacks and ready meals. Ministop's site, for instance, shows hot oden and pastries. Wine, spirits and what to try locally are covered in alcohol in Vietnam.

Pharmacy chains: Long Châu, Pharmacity, An Khang

Pharmacies in Vietnam are chains too. The largest, Long Châu (FPT), had 2,678 pharmacies in early June 2026; Pharmacity has 1,118 and An Khang (MWG) had 416 at the end of May. OpenStreetMap also tags 24-hour Pharmacity branches, for example in Da Nang and Hue.

What you can buy without a prescription, how to explain what you need and where the private clinics are: our full guide to hospitals and pharmacies in Vietnam. One tip is enough here: buy medicine at a branded chain pharmacy, not at a market.

How to pay at the checkout

Every chain takes cash in dong. With foreign Visa and Mastercard cards the picture is patchy. In OpenStreetMap, individual WinMart, WinMart+, Circle K, Co.opmart, FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, GS25, Ministop and AEON MaxValu stores are tagged as accepting cards; some Circle K, 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, GS25 and Ministop points are also tagged for Apple Pay or Google Pay, and some Circle K, WinMart+, GS25 and Ministop stores for QR payments. Those are tags on specific stores, not a chain-wide rule. The chains don't publish an in-store payment policy: their payment pages only cover online orders.

So carry some cash even if you plan to pay by card, especially for markets and small corner stores. For rates and where to change money, see dong exchange rate.

Opening hours and old names

Hypermarkets open between 06:00 and 08:00 and close at 22:00–22:30. AEON's site gives 08:00–22:00 for all 18 locations. Per OpenStreetMap, Lotte Mart Da Nang runs 07:30–22:30, Lotte Mart Gold Coast and GO! in Nha Trang 08:00–22:00, and MM Mega Market Da Nang opens as early as 06:00 and runs until 22:30. GS25 and Ministop say on their sites they're open 24/7. WinMart+ is usually open 06:00–22:00, Bách Hóa Xanh 06:30–21:30.

Old names still pop up in reviews and on maps:

• Big C → GO! and Tops Market. At the turn of 2020–2021 Central Retail began renaming its Big C hypermarkets GO! and its supermarkets Tops Market. The first to reopen under the new name, on 31 December 2020, were GO! Nha Trang, Dĩ An, Cần Thơ, Hạ Long and Vĩnh Phúc. The group still lists Big C among its brands, and points with that name still show up in OpenStreetMap.
• VinMart → WinMart. The chain changed its name on 15 January 2022 and is now run by WinCommerce, part of the Masan group. Its small stores are called WinMart+.
• Lotte Mart in Da Nang and Nha Trang switched to a grocery-focused format in January 2026.

Addresses in older reviews are often out of date too. Since the 1 July 2025 reform there are no more districts, so the chain's site now lists Lotte Mart Nha Trang under Phường Tây Nha Trang rather than an old district.

Common mistakes

1. Assuming every beach town has a Lotte Mart and a Co.opmart. Phu Quoc isn't on the lists of Lotte Mart, Co.opmart, AEON, MM Mega Market or WinMart, and Da Lat has neither Co.opmart nor Lotte Mart.
2. Looking for Big C. Since the turn of 2020–2021 the chain's hypermarkets have been called GO!.
3. Counting on paying by card everywhere. Card acceptance is store by store; markets are cash only.
4. Going to MM Mega Market for a bottle of water. It's a wholesale-and-retail centre with bulk packs, and in Nha Trang it's on the edge of town.
5. Grabbing the first thing on the shelf. A promoted product or the chain's own brand next to it can cost half as much: ST25 rice on sale, WinMart Home toilet paper.
6. Expecting a 24-hour mini-mart on every corner. 24/7 chains are mostly in HCMC and Hanoi. In beach towns, not every WinMart+ stays open at night.

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