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Saturday, July 26, 2025

BUSI­NESS GUARDIAN

Electronic games top Christmas wishlist

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In­ter­net shop­ping made eas­i­er

Sim­i­lar­ly to Gamez Plus, on-line shop­pers went for the elec­tron­ics items as well. Gillian Ro­driguez-Clarke, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Aero­post Trinidad, said her on­line sales have been phe­nom­e­nal this year. She re­port­ed that the since the com­pa­ny has been in ex­is­tence for ten years lo­cal­ly, this has been the best year. Sales have sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­creased this year de­spite oth­er re­ports from oth­er lo­cal stores, Ro­driguez-Clarke said. She stat­ed that cus­tomers were buy­ing a wide range of prod­ucts but most­ly elec­tron­ic items like Tele­vi­sion sets, DSI-her big sell­er-and cell phones. But, for the oth­er cus­tomers, there were no lim­it to their spend­ing: from jew­el­ry, shoes, and cloth­ing to toys and food items. Asked what was the con­tribut­ing fac­tor to such great re­spons­es by con­sumers, Ro­driquez-Clarke said con­ve­nience, com­fort, low prices, safe­ty, re­li­a­bil­i­ty and ex­cel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice. Ro­driquez-Clarke said the 27-year-old com­pa­ny-a joint ven­ture with lo­cal and for­eign share­hold­ers-not on­ly pro­vide on-line shop­ping ser­vices, but the ser­vice ex­tends to shop­ping for the cus­tomer with the use of their cred­it card and free de­liv­ery ser­vice to the cus­tomers' door. "We of­fer an all-in­clu­sive ser­vice where we al­so pay du­ty and tax­es on your items," she not­ed. She said all three branch­es (Fer­nan­des Com­pound, Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la and Ari­api­ta Av­enue) were re­ceiv­ing a phe­nom­e­nal re­sponse from cus­tomers.

"In­ter­net shop­ping could not get any eas­i­er."

Sales slow

Con­verse­ly, the pic­ture is a gloomy one for some store­own­ers. Wish­ing to re­main anony­mous, a store­own­er lament­ed that sales this year were ter­ri­ble. "It dropped by six per cent and more; the low­est year the store had in his­to­ry." He not­ed that he hoped sales would pick up. He ex­plained that cus­tomers were buy­ing but were fo­cus­ing on the much cheap­er and rea­son­able items. "They are not spend­ing the big bucks any more. I hope that things change in the New Year." But the store­own­er iden­ti­fied some of the same pop­u­lar toys that cus­tomers were buy­ing: Ba­by Alive doll, elec­tron­ic mo­nop­oly, Moon­sand, ra­dio con­trol he­li­copters, bi­cy­cles and Trans­form­ers.


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