MERRYMART (MM) Consumer Corp. welcomed the opening of the 100th MM Wholesale-powered mini-mart member on Tuesday, Oct. 3.
This project of MM Wholesale aids the transformation of sari-sari stores to become a mini-mart while purchasing their grocery inventory from the MM Wholesale App.
“We have been observing and studying in detail the sari-sari store industry around the country, and we believe that the true long-term solution for these hundreds of thousands of sari-sari stores to thrive is to transform and become a mini-mart. From doing the selling of items from a small hole in their window, they transform to become a grocery mini-mart where their customers or suki can now enter their tindahan, just like the setup of their branded and modern mini-mart competitors that recently opened near their sari-sari stores. This will enable them to compete and thrive thus retaining and enhancing their household livelihood income,” said MM chairman Edgar “Injap” Sia II.
He added: “I personally have been an SME provincial entrepreneur not so long ago, and I feel for the sari-sari stores who are struggling to compete with the modern branded mini-marts sprouting around them.”
MM Wholesale App now has over 180,000 registered users and growing./PN
