Says new super centre wants to make food more affordable
The Grenadian partner in the new multi-million dollar Regent and Albert streets supermarket has told Stabroek Business that bureaucracy and’ may be slowing down the pace of effective implementation of the Caribbean Single Market (CSM). “I believe that the process towards effective implementation of the Single Market will be considerably enhanced if we were to get rid of the red tape.
“We give a lot of lip service to Caribbean integration and to a single market but there is still too many hurdles,” Peter Andall, the principal partner in the new ADL Enterprise supermarket told Stabroek Business.
Andall, in partnership with Guyanese Ian Delph and Dawne Layne have established the new supermarket at an estimated cost of “between US$500,000 and US$750,000” and have declared that part of their focus is on offering food to ordinary Guyanese at “better prices.” Asked how the new entity proposes to cut prices at a time of rising food prices, Andall, who also has supermarket and other interests in Grenada told Stabroek Business that given the size of the Guyana market his company could now take advantage of lower prices associated with “volume purchases” which price reductions it intended to pass on to its customers in Guyana.
Meanwhile Stabroek Business understand that his business interest in Guyana also extended to the importation of Guyanese agricultural produce into Grenada. “We are presently awaiting permits from the Ministry of Health in Grenada that will allow us to import a range of fruit and vegetables into Grenada, Andall told Stabroek Business. He said that while the health authorities in Grenada had cleared “some meats and fish”from Guyana for importation, difficulties had arisen with efforts to import agricultural produce. He said that he had entered into business discourses with Guyanese farmers over the past year and was keen to overcome the hurdles associated with the importation process.
