The links that make up Puerto Rico’s food chain — shippers, distributors and retailers — need to become as efficient as possible to keep costs in check as external pressures continue mounting and threatening the price and availability of products.
Nearly three months after abruptly closing down its local drugstore chain and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, El Amal is liquidating the inventory it has left, the company in charge of the transaction announced in an ad published Tuesday.
Accompanied by Gov. Luis Fortuño and other government officials, retailer Walmart broke ground Wednesday on the new Supercenter it plans to build in the heart of Santurce, through a $50.2 million investment.