Saturday, 22 March 2014

Small Businesses...We need more to drive the economy of St. Vincent forward

Small business will create more employable people and encourages usage of more local products. As a result more people will have a share in the economic market. Many times it is financially difficult for persons to purchase items in large quantity even if it is a basic necessary. The bigger business sell these  same items but in quantities that are far beyond the buying power of the ordinary people whose income is skewed towards the poverty line.

Small business can are the best avenue for such persons as they can retail in quantity that meet the need of such lower income persons.  They will be able to buy the cases and break it up into quarter, eights or even single to meet the lower income need.  In this situation the small business is carrying a volume of products that are ready available to its clients and are not over stocking.

Not  only with merchandise is this applicable but also with products from farmer who grows many different crops.  They can have their small stall right by their gate with their produce; clean, fresh and bagged for sale. In that way the money from these small enterprises will certainly add  to the drive in the economy.

When the small business fish vendor comes selling his fish he can stop and purchase some peppers or yam and the small farmer will go to the small shop to buy rich and sugar.  They will all be playing in the market economy and create the needed drive to keep St. Vincent forward.

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