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The hardware store in Placencia Village unveiled its extensive renovations at an official reopening in November. In addition to an aesthetic upgrade, MnM's has also expanded its selection of home improvement goods and hotel supplies.
MnM' s Got a New Look! By SHAYLENE TODD Contributing Writer The Placencia Breeze
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by McNab Design of Belize City, makes finding what you’re looking for easy, and an engaged and knowledgeable staff will be there if more assistance is needed. Most of the staff has been with MnM's for over a decade, and they’ve been training with independent leadership coach, Mandy Marshall of Mandy Marshall Coaching in Maya Beach, twice a week to take their customer engagement to the next level in preparation for this re-opening.
Nov. 24th brought with it the grand re-opening of the hardware section of MnM Hardware & Service Station on the main road in Placencia Village. First opened on Sept. 1, 2003 as a sister store to the original in Independence Village, owners, Dora and Alan Duncker, are keeping up with the needs of a growing Placencia Peninsula over 15 years later.
Home hardware is still the Duncker’s core business, but they saw a need for good quality building and home improvement products that people have been needing to procure in Belize City. Eager to meet Placencia’s needs, MnM will still carry all the nuts and bolts they always have, but now shoppers will benefit from an upgraded caliber and an expanded portfolio of accessories including Balloons and fanfare marked the home decor, kitchen appliances and opening, as Peninsula residents were a hotel and restaurant line of goods. treated to a table of snacks, packaged homemade cookies and beautifully From finding the perfect color of displayed merchandise laid out by Sissons paint mixed to the right talented locally-based design con- biodegradable disposables, browse sultant, Penne Sommers. The major the aisles of the revamped hardware difference shoppers will note is that store and for motor needs, visit the what was formerly an over-the- service station that also recently uncounter shopping experience is now derwent major improvements.▪ convenient self-serve. Renovations had been taking place for a year and a half and now, villagers can finally Contributing writer, Shaylene Todd, is walk the aisles to find inspiration the Sales Manager for Itz'ana Resort & among the store’s impressive selec- Residences in Placencia. She can often tion of merchandise. be seen running the road or enjoying Beautiful signage, printed in country
Photo by: SHAYLENE TODD
a beach day with friends. Reach her at shaylenetodd@gmail.com.
Photo by: SHAYLENE TODD
MnM Hardware and Service Station owners, Alan and Dora Duncker, join their two children in a photo with their Placencia store's longtime manager, Jenny Westby.
