SOME COCONUT VENDORS are lining up behind the suggestion that they need to improve their business habits to create a more professional look when they deal with the public.
This is their consensus after suggestions by officials in the coconut industry during a Barbados coconut stakeholders forum about providing training for vendors held on Wednesday.
WEEKEND NATION spoke to vendors who plied their trade along the highway between the Everton Weekes Roundabout and D’Arcy Scott Roundabout about their thoughts on the matter yesterday.
Rushena Prescod, who recently got into the business, said training was a positive idea and the suggestion to have a uniform would appeal to her customers. Andy ‘Boy Blue’ Andrew, her workmate and who has been vending coconuts for over 18 years, was in agreement. He added that training would give the public a different outlook of the job. (SB)
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