The protective strictures that have compulsorily arisen out of the onset of the coronavirus may have put a squeeze on mainstream trading through the accustomed outlets, whether these be conventional shops and supermarkets or traditional municipal market vending. The reality is that large numbers of consumers have, these days, adjusted their shopping patterns as a precaution against illness that might derive from frequenting crowded outlets.
Guyanese, however, known as we are for our entrepreneurial inventiveness, have devised ways of working around the adjustments that have occurred in the trading (buying and selling) pattern by adapting strategies to fit the circumstances.
Fresh fruit and vegetables have traditionally featured prominently on the local diet and if anything, the onset of the coronavirus has boosted demand for that pattern of consumption in response to the healthy-eating urgings emanating from local as well as global organisations.
