Another supermarket is expected to be set up at the Robb and Light streets location which once housed Nigel’s Supermarket.
Works are currently ongoing at the site. The new owner and the name of the entity have not been publicised but construction is forging ahead at the location. The new owner is said to have a supermarket in another part of Georgetown.
In 2020, the building was put up for sale.
A source close to the owner of Nigel’s had told Stabroek News then that “there’s a time to buy and a time to sell”. The source said that he could not give further details about the reason the building was being sold at that point in time, but at a later date such information would have been accessible.
The source had said that after the building is sold, it would be the end for the supermarket, once again referring to his earlier statement about there being a time for everything. “It is something you just can’t avoid,” he added.
In 2016, then owner of the supermarket, Nigel Johnson, had told Stabroek News that he was in it for the long haul. At the time, the supermarket had scaled down operations and was engaged in restructuring. In 2018, the supermarket underwent further development and opened under a new name and was leased to a new owner.
This newspaper understands that Johnson, who now lives in the United States, would not be returning to Guyana.
Nigel’s Supermarket set the standard in local supermarkets here when it opened over two decades ago but fell on hard times after expanding and taking on debt.
Customers today still refer to the quality of service received there while complaining of the lack of efficient customer service at others.
