Dozens of tiny grocery stores and other retail shops have sprung up around Cuba in recent months. The locals call them “mipymes” — a name derived from the small- and medium-sized businesses that the government first allowed in 2021. They sell everything from cooking oil and cookies to shampoo, jam and toilet paper. Yet despite their modest setup, their prices are far from affordable.
Dozens of tiny grocery stores and other retail shops have sprung up around Cuba in recent months. The locals call them “mipymes” — a name derived from the small- and medium-sized businesses that the government first allowed in 2021. They sell everything from cooking oil and cookies to shampoo, jam and toilet paper. Yet despite their modest setup, their prices are far from affordable.
Dozens of tiny grocery stores and other retail shops have sprung up around Cuba in recent months. The locals call them “mipymes” — a name derived from the small- and medium-sized businesses that the government first allowed in 2021. They sell everything from cooking oil and cookies to shampoo, jam and toilet paper. Yet despite their modest setup, their prices are far from affordable.
HAVANA Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba s capital, Havana. Today, it is a well-stocked, if small, grocery store whose big board at the gate entices shoppers with such offerings as cooking oil, tomato sauce, Hershey s cocoa powder, Nutella, shampoo, cookies and jam a treasure trove in a country that is short of supplies.
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