Davao to host S&R Price Club’s sixth store
MONDAY, 30 APRIL 2012 19:33 MANUEL T. CAYON / CORRESPONDENT
DAVAO CITY—Membership shopping entity S&R Price Club Inc. has begun issuing membership cards here and is now hiring staff for
its sixth store in the country, and the first in Mindanao.
Velinda Funelas, marketing officer at S&R, told the BusinessMirror on Friday that
the store is expected to open its doors in November, situated at the corner lot on Maa Road and MacArthur Highway, and fronting a shopping mall.
Hiring is expected to be completed in May for the Davao City crew, consisting of the management team on human resources, accounting and administration, and the sales force.
It will also begin issuing membership cards, priced at P700 for individual members, and P900 for commercial businesses.
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“We are upbeat on Davao City. It’s one of the fast-growing metropolises in the country and it is listed in the 100 fast-growing cities in the world,” she added. “We take off from that listing, and you can see around that indeed, growth is all around.
S&R President Anthony Sy paid a courtesy call at the office of City Mayor Sara Duterte in late February, and told the mayor that “we would like to be the first movers here because of the great economic indicators of the city”.
He also assured that the store usually tap the top local suppliers “for some of the items that we need.”
In hiring its personnel, he also said “we bring about only six to 10 of our people and hire the rest in the area where we operate.”
He also told the BusinessMirror the city “is one of the prime locations for expansion of its [network].”
S&R Price Club is formerly known S&R Membership Shopping until it was acquired by Lucio Co-owned Puregold Price Club. It would retain its same exclusive shopping menu for cardholders.
“That’s why you would see known politicians and movie personalities shopping at our stores, obviously to avoid the crowds, but mainly to seek out our prime items,” Funelas said. “Our products are not the usual items you see in the shopping malls.”
“To overseas Filipinos who miss the Costco shopping atmosphere, they usually go to our stores,” she added.
S&R has an affiliation with Costco Wholesale Corp., the same exclusive membership shopping store with stores in the US, Canada and Mexico, among others.