We had this idea to start a SARI SARI STORE a few years back. But In order to start a business, you generally need 2 things. Time and money. In order to have money, you need to spend much less than you earn for a relatively long period of time.

Through thick and thin, we started a mini store a year before the pandemic time. However, we were forced to close the store for more than 2 years due to the effect of the pandemic. We decided to reopen the mini store selling only selected items/products that are in demands and fast moving. The comeback in reopening the sari sari store was very challenging for us because of the strong competition with the neighboring and too close variety stores from left and right in our area of operation. However, we did not lose confidence and hope to sell the products that are fast moving. We applied different strategies to persuade more customers to buy in our sari sari store. We also experienced a lot of ups and downs and it’s not entirely easy.

The decision was easy, at least for us. However, the demands to sell more products are limited due to lack of capital.

The year 2024, last quarter of the year, gave us a big opportunity to pursue our dreams to sell products, not only from walk-in customers but we will soar high to go online selling. This dream will not come true without the care and love and eagerness of the generous couple to support our dreams to put up an online shop. Money and time met our expectations to materialize little by little our dream MCRIO SARI SARI STORE.

Finally, a chance to have our dream physical Sari-Sari and Online Store in one. We grabbed this opportunity in November 2024. We spent hundreds of hours ever since working on MCRIO SARI-SARI STORE and it is without a doubt the most inspiring and fun time of our lives up to date.

One thing we can’t predict yet is the future. We sincerely hope it will be a success and we can’t wait to share its purpose with the world.