Stop N Shop needs 100 more workers for refurbished store

By GYNNIE KERO
One hundred additional workers will be employed at the refurbished Stop N Shop Waigani Central when it reopens for business next week.
This is according to City Pharmacy Ltd (CPL) Group managing director Mahesh Patel when giving media a tour of the building yesterday.
A fire, which unexpectedly gutted the 4000-square-metre supermarket in July 2015, forced it to close for nearly three years.
Patel said the reopening of the K100 million property next week would be the beginning of the group’s rebuild programme.
When Stop N Shop Waigani Central opens next week it will have a new logo and a Prouds outlet to offer customers a wider choice of things to buy.
Patel said all Stop N Shop retail outlets would be refurbished and rebranded with a new logo.
“It’s almost three years (since the fire),” he said.
“Part of our delay was the insurance company of this particular property is in liquidation at the moment.
“Millions of kina are still owed to us, which is what has partly delayed this project.
“We are desperately trying to get it open next week.
“This will be the new modern store as we were back in 2014.
“We are recruiting an additional 100 staff because it is a bigger store.
“Our staff members have gone up from 200 to 300.”