EARTH DAY 2020 CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED to 3 May! WRITE FROM HOME!

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While you're staying at home and keeping safe, why not enter the 2020 Staying Blue Essay Contest? Now accepting ALL submissions (no limit per school) ages 8-11 and 12-15. Please remember to put your School, Class Teacher, Name, Age and Word Count, on the submission.

To participate: Students must write and submit an essay on the topic:

  • WHAT DOES STAYING BLUE MEAN TO YOU?

Categories

  • Primary School: Ages 8-11 years – MAXIMUM 250 words.

  • High School: Ages 12-15 years – MAXIMUM 500 words.


Prizes for each category

  • 1st Place: iPAD AIR

  • 2nd Place: iPad

  • 3rd Place: iPad Mini

The schools with the 1st place winners will receive a Desktop Computer, a Printer and $500 shopping spree at Graceway Supermarkets.

Entries by email only to: communities@gracewayiga.com


A panel of independent judges will review essays on grammar, creativity, language and content. Contestants keep the rights to their work but grant Graceway Communities, Graceway Trading Limited and group companies the rights to reproduce their work including in print and online, whether alone or in an anthology.

Press Release: Graceway Customer Announcement

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Following the Premier’s recent announcement, we want to write and update you on the measures we continue to take and what new things you will begin to see in our stores over the next few days.

We want to reassure our customers and everyone on island that grocery stores are considered essential services and will remain open during the three (3) weeks curfew. Therefore, travel for grocery shopping or any essential services is considered legitimate reason to travel.

Food for all

From Thursday 26th March, we will be making the following changes:

  • Our opening hours to the general public will be from 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

    The Gourmet store and Grand Turk stores will be open to the general public from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

    As mandated in the Emergency Powers Regulations, the first hour, 7am – 8am will be for; the elderly (+70 years old), the disabled and essential workers who will be asked to present their ID upon entry.

  • To ensure more people have access to everyday essentials, we have introduced a storewide restriction of 2 items per customer on every product line excluding fresh produce. Where necessary and in order to provide for everyone, we may reduce this to 1 item per customer on selected products. We have more stock coming into stores every day – but we need everyone’s help: please buy only what you need, so that there is enough for everyone.

Safety for everyone

To ensure we are doing everything possible to reduce the risk of infection for our customers and colleagues, we will begin to introduce new social distancing measures in stores in the coming days; these include:

  • Floor markings in our car parks to help you to maintain safe distances when queuing outside the stores.

  • Where necessary, we will limit the flow of people coming into our stores to ensure they don’t get too congested.

  • Hand sanitizers are being placed around our stores for customers and colleagues to use, as well as extra cleaning products to wipe down your trolley or basket.

  • New floor markings will help you to keep a safe distance from others while waiting to pay.

This is a challenging time for the whole country, but we are committed to playing our part in feeding the people of TCI and to keeping everyone safe.

We also need your help to change the way you shop with us, so here are a few simple requests to help us serve you better:

  • Before you leave home, please bring enough bags for your shop. If it’s raining, don’t forget an umbrella too, in case you need to queue outside the store.

  • Please shop with no more than one other person per household, which will help to reduce the number of people in-store at any one time.

  • Please use our cleaning stations to wipe your trolley.

  • Please be kind to our colleagues as they’re working hard to serve you; we’re all in this together.

We want to thank our suppliers, our colleagues – and especially you, our customers – for understanding and helping.   We know these are some big changes, and we will all need to do our very best to adjust. We will continue to update you as things change.

Together, we can do this.

Sincerely,
The Graceway Supermarkets Team

Press Release: Product purchasing limit

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Dear Customers,

As you will have seen from pictures around the world, people who are understandably concerned about the COVID-19 virus have been panic buying and leaving stores with empty shelves.

During these challenging times and to ensure we can serve all our customers; we are limiting each item to 2 per customer (excluding fresh produce).

While we are confident in our supply levels, we take our responsibility to feed the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands very seriously.

Thank you for your understanding and for allowing us to serve you.

Sincerely,

The Graceway Supermarkets Team

Press Release: Cargo deliveries unaffected.

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Dear Customers,

Some of you will have seen and heard the Government announcement yesterday concerning the latest actions that are being taken to combat the COVID-19 Virus which included closing the air and sea ports to public/tourist travel. You can see the full announcement on the Premier’s Facebook page. 

We want to reassure you that CARGO DELIVERIES BY SEA AND AIR are UNAFFECTED and we will be receiving our deliveries as NORMAL both in Provo and Grand Turk. We remain confident that we will be able to meet the needs of our customers – as ever we are here for you.

As you have already seen we have limited 24 pack bottled water to 2 cases per customer and 20LB rice to 1 bag per customer. We want thank our customers for being understanding and supporting us with these decisions. Please continue to shop responsibly and considerately so there is enough product for everyone.


Stay Safe.

Sincerely,
The Graceway Supermarkets Team