Long queues at the most popular stores across the malls of Ho Chi Minh City RELATED CONTENTS: Online sales spike on a less chaotic Black Friday As Black Friday nears, US stores get creative to battle e-commerce Millions of customers rush stores on Black Friday Vincom Center Dong Khoi, which houses Zara, H&M, Charles and Keith, and several other famous brands, saw swarms of shoppers searching for Black Friday deals. The stores offered numerous promotions and discounts for a wide range of products like clothes, shoes, bags, cosmetics, accessories, and watches. Nguyen Ngoc Thao, a 27-year-old office worker, told VIR that she is really excited about Black Friday sales. Branded handbags normally cost over VND1 million ($44), but with the up to 50 per cent discounts, the bag became almost inexpensive. She has bought a bag worth VND2 million ($88) for VND700.000 ($30.8). At Takashimaya shopping mall, there are long queues of shoppers in front of the cosmetics counters. A cheerful female customer said that she is waiting to buy lipsticks as the Japanese brand is offering a buy one get one free deal. Beside attractive deals offered by different brands, shopping mall operators also issued promotion programmes for Black…