PriceSmart Coming to Santo Domingo

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - July 10, 2017

Warehouse club company PriceSmart is expanding in the Caribbean.

The company has announced plans to open a new warehouse club in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in the spring of 2018, following the acquisition of land in the area.

PriceSmart already has three locations in the Dominican Republic.

The company, based in San Diego, owns and operates membership shopping warehouse clubs across Latin America and the Caribbean, including four in Trinidad and one each in Aruba, Barbados, Jamaica and the United States Virgin Islands.

— CJ Staff

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