As if moving to the rhythm of the song, the bodeguero moves behind the counter as the best of the artists on stage. It does not matter if what you have on the dough is rice, sugar or beans, the truth is that your daily work seeks the satisfaction of customers.
Thus, on February 4, the workers of the commerce, the gastronomy and the services received, as Yaritza Martínez, main specialist of the area of Buenaventura, assures: "we the merchants celebrate our day working, pleasing the town".
With that spirit they managed to comply with the mercantile circulation plan of the previous year, by not believing in bad roads or torrential rains that threatened the transitivity of the same. It was in those moments when the oxen, the carts, the tractors became the ideal transport, as demonstrated by the workers of Guayabo, Vista Hermosa, Monte Alto and other surrounding areas.
That is why José Carlos Pupo, the young man who is the head of the Guayabo work group, says that this year he will not "believe in water, mud, or anything that could threaten compliance with the law." the plans".
Sales management became another inseparable ally. About this experience Bárbara Ramos, head of the work group Mir-Monte Alto-Sabanazo, says that they did not let any meetings take place in the cooperatives framed in their area, nor did they have a party to arm themselves in the neighborhoods and there they went with the boxes of the different products.
To sell is also important the conditions under which the service is provided, especially if this has to do with the preparation and sale of food. Hence, the repair and remodeling of some units are the best example of this. The most benefited in this sense are in the work group La Jíquima-Vista Hermosa-Guaramanao.
More than ten kilometers from the main road is this region of Calixto García. In La Jíquima, social circle was remodeled and in what was once a social circle that was already very deteriorated, a carefully designed and built cafeteria was built. Similar luck ran Vista Hermosa, where a beautiful and cozy gastronomic complex was built, with cafeteria service, Mini restaurant and Family Service.
And as it is included in its denomination, one of the fundamental objectives of this sector is to provide services to the population and to do it with quality. Then you can not miss Yaritza Peña, responsible for billing at the point of sale of materials for construction. This young woman and her unit have been able to take care of subsidized people, affected by Hurricane Irma and the population in general, while bringing these services closer to the popular councils.
But if we talk about merchants who provide quality service, we can not leave out a woman who has practically become part of her unit. This is Beltes Santiesteban, a woman who has dedicated her life to this work and who says that "the most important thing is to serve the people, that they never feel bad. That is the task of the merchant and our reason for being. "
Meanwhile, they continue behind the counter, between beans, rice or sugar, confident that their main task is none other than to please everyone who arrives at their unit.
