Sari-sari store owned by Filipina fish plant worker thrives in Canada
A former fish plant employee is now making waves as an acclaimed sari-sari retailer proprietor in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
In line with CBS Information, Filipina entrepreneur Ruby Lubigan’s enterprise lately gained an Rising Enterprise Award from the West Prince Chamber of Commerce. She was profiled as a part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Lubigan runs the Sari-Sari Retail Retailer enterprise in Bloomfield, the place she sells principally Filipino meals merchandise to the various Filipinos residing in her group. Prospects usually come to the shop to purchase substances for dishes comparable to adobo, pancit bihon and sinigang.
Presently working full-time at a financial institution, the everlasting resident first got here to Canada in 2011 as a short lived international employee. Lubigan’s first job was at a fish plant situated in a rural province, and he or she has additionally labored as a full time cleaner at a highschool.
The shop began out of her lounge in 2018, earlier than finally increasing and transferring to a constructing constructed on her yard.
She instructed CBS Information, “After I left my nation, I by no means thought, I by no means dreamed that I’m going to be right here in Canada. As a result of my life within the Philippines is absolutely poor. We (weren’t) capable of have meals for thrice a day. There was a time we at all times ate as soon as a day solely.”
