Business View Caribbean | February 2021

71 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN FEBRUARY 2021 America and also who we order from, China among others, so once it actually started happening I feel as though we put things in place very early. We had a hunch as to what was going to happen here by looking at just how quickly it was happening in the U.S. and we adapted quickly.” One of those changes was adopting the curbside pickup model early on in March 2020. Fontana Pharmacy was one of the first businesses in the region to do curbside pickup – rolling it out at all of their locations. And it was a huge success. Fontana also moved quickly to implement health and safety measures in all their stores. Chang recalls, “The government put in a mask mandate here in March ,that we have had the entire time, so we were one of the first ones to really enforce it in terms of ‘no mask, no entry,’ and we also had hand sanitizing stations as soon as you walked in. We actually started that on the island and now it’s become a given.” These early measures were a benefit to the www.taracan.com 888-Taracan (876-926-7982) JAMAICA’S #1 FONTANA PHARMACY