If Guyana’s municipal markets still remain the country’s ‘mecca’ insofar as trading in fruit and vegetables is concerned, the response by local supermarkets to consumer demand for ‘convenience shopping’ has created new opportunities for entrepreneurially inclined Guyanese. While the ‘hustle and bustle’ of crowded markets continues to be favoured by shoppers who still see what is essentially a weekend pursuit as a welcome diversion from the customary home-to-work routine, increasingly time-challenged Guyanese have come to appreciate the value of what is perhaps best described as one-stop food shopping.
