Hong Kong residents flocked to major supermarkets, stocking up on goods during a 'price war' initiative by chains like ParknShop and Wellcome ahead of Mother's Day. Online platform HKTVmall also joined the promotion.

Hongkongers packed the aisles of supermarkets with carts full of daily necessities as the city’s major grocery chains engaged in what some were calling a “price war” ahead of Mother’s Day. Hong Kong’s two major supermarket chains, CK Hutchison Holdings-backed ParknShop and Jardine Matheson’s Wellcome, each offered 12 per cent off everything in their stores for those who bought a certain amount of goods on Saturday. HKTVmall, the city’s popular online shopping platform, entered the fray and...