It Is All About Sari-Sari Store

Sari-sari store is the original Filipino convenience store. It is the personification of the Philippines' small-scale business industry. It is privately operated business or a family-run business, which is operating inside the house of the family. The word 'sari-sari' is a Tagalog word which means 'variety', because of the different products that it sells that's why it is called sari-sari store. In operating this kind of business you don't need to have big amount of money, because it works with a small revolving fund. It is commonly operated by a woman, though we've seen some men operating on it.

Sari-sari store owners go into a grocery or a supermarket to buy their supplies for their store, wherein they buy wholesale products and sell it in a retail way. And sometimes their suppliers come to their store and bring them homemade products that most likely candy products. They also sell soft drinks and beer, which are delivered by large trucks. Most of the products of sari-sari stores are packaged in small and single-use sachets, which are often sell for just a peso or two. But even though the prizes of the products of the sari-sari stores are cheap still some people, specifically the neighbors will have their debt to your store and sometimes it is inevitable. And there is a point that some of the customers of the store are not paying their debt, which can wipe out the sari-sari store's minimal profits for the day.