MERRYMART (MM) Wholesale marked its 200th sari-sari store transformation to mini-mart on Friday, March 22. This project 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 set-up 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.”
The MM Distribution Center locations in Tarlac and Laguna will be followed by the roll out of two in Luzon, three in Visayas and three in Mindanao to achieve the first 10 MM Distribution Center network nationwide.
The MM Wholesale E-Commerce platform supported by its modern distribution centers are expected to eventually be available in all the 82 provinces of the Philippines. This direction aims to cover 99% of the Philippine consumer market.
MerryMart is continuously expanding its branches with MM Group now totals to 127 operating branches, and as well focusing on further enhancements in the MerryMart Wholesale’s super App which is seeing continued exponential growth in registered users as the MM Wholesale App is envisioned to eventually become the most dominant online wholesale e-commerce platform in the Philippines.
“The whole MerryMart Team will continue its entrepreneurial approach as it pursues to achieve its set goals,” said Sia./PN
