CATHERINE HALL, Montego Bay – MONTEGO Bay has been selected as the location for the second-ever collaboration between popular retailer MegaMart and Rubis Energy Jamaica. The Rubis gas station under construction at MegaMart’s Catherine Hall location is expected to begin serving clients in the third quarter of this year. It is visible from the supermarket’s entrance.

“One-stop shopping, that’s the incentive. You go to the station and you do your shopping, buy your gas and go home as opposed to going to the supermarket, doing your shopping, drive to gas station, buy your gas then go home,” Rubis Energy Jamaica’s Retail Manager Wayne Wright told the Jamaica Observer West.

He pointed to the success of the collaboration at MegaMart on Waterloo Road in St Andrew, which also has a Rubis very close by.

“The partnership works and I think it will also transfer to Montego Bay. The synergies are there,” he said.

He explained that MegaMart Montego Bay was selected because of the recognition of some of the challenges the city’s drivers face daily.

“Montego Bay is very congested and we think this will really help out our customer base there,” Wright told Observer West.

“We are really trying to satisfy the Montego Bay market – we have four stations there already [so] I think this will help,” he added.

Wright noted that, as with the other stations across Jamaica, the site will provide another boost to the community in terms of employment opportunities.

“Generally a site of that size averages about 16 employees or so,” he said.

In addition to Catherine Hall in Montego Bay and Waterloo Road in Kingston the supermarket chain also has locations in Portmore and Mandeville. Wright explained that decisions to add Rubis gas stations at MegaMart locations are taken on a case-by-case basis.

“It depends on the location and if the surrounding area suits it. We have a relationship with that organisation [MegaMart] so it is dependent on the location and it must work for both [of us],” he noted.