Supermarket Managers for the Future

Has anybody thought of managing a supermarket business or even deciding to venture into one?

Yesterday, I visited a good friend of mine and a well respected in the Supermarket Indusrty here in the Visayas and Mindanao, Mr. Francis Kimseng, currently the General Manager of Fooda Savers Mart Mango Ave and Guadalupe. We had a chat and one of the major concerns of this sector is that there are no institutions offering a course or even a programe for supermarket managers being developed.

We know for the fact that these supermarkets are owned by Fil-chinese all over the Philippines and there is a need to professionalize this industry. They are really the frontliners for the consumer goods that all of us need. If we want to have an affordable prices of these goods that we consume daily, it has to be managed and run by competent and experienced enterpreneurs so the consumers can buy the goods at a very affordable and competitive prices.

But the question is, how we can develop these managers and enterpreneurs in this sector? This is a challege to the academe, supermarket industry as well as the goverment sector. Some thing has to be done NOW or it may be too late.