Crab antics! Vanterpool blasts supermarket critics
Fourth District Representative and businessman Mark Vanterpool has hit out at detractors of his business success, describing their behaviour as similar to that of crabs.
Vanterpool recently opened a fourth branch of his OneMart Supermarket in the Lower Estate area while noting that he aimed to make access to goods easier for members of the community.
“Somebody asked me yesterday, why are you opening more supermarkets? And the crab antics that comes out is amazing,” Vanterpool said in the House of Assembly.
Vanterpool alluded to his humble beginnings and suggested that residents should instead be more supportive of each other and push them towards achieving even greater success.
“A little boy like me who come from feeding pigs, opening four supermarkets and people saying that… ‘what more you want?’ That is the crab antics that we need to get out of. We need to support our people to go forward in strength and unity,” he added.
While citing the territory’s annual budgets which hover in the region of $400 million, Vanterpool urged that persons should believe in the BVI and its abilities and thanked Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley for guiding the territory in that direction.
“Let’s hold up our heads, man. Let’s be positive. Let’s go forward with positivity. Despite all the attacks on us about the financial services and all of the issues, people are still investing and believing in the Virgin Islands,” the lawmaker said.
Vanterpool expressed that the BVI is going places despite all the difficulties and issues it was having.
“The BVI has a bright future and we are prepared as a family to invest in the BVI,” Vanterpool said during the new OneMart branch opening.
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All the BVI people do is criticize their own all day every day.
That’s just the way BVI Landers are. They are bitter people. They never uplift their own. They rather pull them down and spread propaganda. Don’t let it bother you. Keep doing you and do so without any distractions and you will be fine. I’m happy to see you expanding. Great to see a local doing big things.
Why are BVI landers such bitter and negotiate souls?? Can I get an answer??? Anyone??? What are your thoughts on why this is??
Bring one on VG and a superette on Anegada
Some people are just happy with getting by, comfortable in the struggle, so people who aspire to do well for not only themselves but their families will be seen as greedy. I salute this man for his vision and aspirations, not everyone will get it and we have to learn to be ok with that. He needs to open one in the 3rd district too, if you ask me,patiently waiting Mark!
More branches means more jobs for people who don’t have one, easier access to groceries and less congestion in the one at Purcell Estate. Small minds can’t understand that, because they can’t see pass Mark, and the money he makes, people need to take a page out of his book. How come no one asked the owner of RTW why so many and rtw all over the place?
leave a slice for someone else set a greedy ms
I hope that Mark understands that people don’t like when others are exceeding them and their lifestyles. Crab antics has being around forever…jealously and envy from Cain and Abel days, so what is new?.
Mark has done a great job expanding his business to accommodate residents. One thing I found interesting, it is next to impossible to find a decent selection of drinks with 0 sugar in any stores. Maybe a Diet Coke, but very little like Vitamin Water or Gatorade with no sugar. Everything is loaded with sugar and it would be a good idea to provide healthier drinks to the public.
Charlie and the marching powder funding that expansion.
All these are very good to help the community. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY will be one’s own investment in heavenly things NOT religious things. SEEK A PERSONAL INTIMATE AND HOLY WALK WITH JESUS CHRIST. What about your spiritual growth? This is what will last. Man’s labor under the sun is vanity. After he goes to the dust and does not know whether the person after him will spent it wisely or not.
@Mark, Like you are any better where you come from.
And why u assumed BV Islander made these comments?? Ya’ll just messy and annoying
More jobs? You mean he will be bringing more expats in to fill the positions.
The one mart in East End is a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
Local BVI islanders want everything without lifting a finger. They pretend to go to church and God leads their way then during the week they stab each other in the back. Cudos to those that go and try to make themselves better; instead of listening to those that want to sit back and have everything handed to them then criticize those that have made the effort.
They criticise outsiders too. Especially the Black ones.
Most historians/psychologists think it derived from the slavery experience.
That unhappy period bred Anger, Distrust,Shame, Selfishness, Jealousy, Deviousness, Mamaguyism, Self-hatred… witnin the enslaved struggling at survival.
Frustrated, having little control over their lives, fearing Death and Punishment at the hands of White Massas…the enslaved either internalised the Bitterness or externalised it by Covert Resistance or Overt Rebellion.
It is that Dark Outlook at Life, that INHERITED negative mindset, although we are “free”, which still psycologically enslaves us.
It is a Black against Black thing since the days Africans sold their own to Arabs and Europeans as slaves.
Maybe that person is speaking in general… fool!
IF ANYONE IS KILLING SMALL BUSSINESES IS RITEWAY. IF RETAIL PLAGIARISM WOULD HAVE BEEN A CRIME. RITE WAY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN LOCKUPS.
DEAR RITEWAY, STOP COPYING SMALL LOCAL BUSSINESSES CONCEPTAND COPY THEIR PRODUCT LINES.THESE SMALL BUSSINESES WORK HARD FOR YOU TO STEEL THEIR IDEAS AND CONCEPT
some of us want to much and we die leave it .
WHY? because I am a witness of greed and selfishness
witchcraft lies and deciet.
the more we get the less we see
The is nothing wrong with growth but I would be interested in knowing if the growth was just done off the markets revenue or if the extra proceeds from years in Government have fueled the empire.
None of these blogs have 30, 40, 50 or 100 ups or downs because none of them were written and approved and the up and downs manipulated by a white at BVINews…..
I mean, it is so obvious now. Some people are really that small and shallow? Look at the scenarios on some of the other headlines.
It is really so outstandingly obvious and ridiculous all at once, that it is almost comical to the trained eye.
Why is he addressing this in the house of assembly? Mixing business with politics.
idiot. know better
Why no coverage of his new bar with all the Spanish girls???
Because profit margins are better on junk food…artificially refined products are cheaper wholesale products with high profits. Hold mark and others accountable until they provide better products for consumers even if it eats into some of their profit. In the long run it helps the local economy through lower health care costs, with more tax dollars directed toward better education, roads, and overall improved living conditions for everyone.
That’s not your business. Go ask Rockefeller and the others the same question. BVIslanders say you forward and too may-tah. Go find your place.
He’s just investing the pilfered Pier Park money. Big surprise ???
@support….Retail plaigerism? What’s that? Explain
Lots of talk about Mark Vanterpool opening another One Mart
store. Good, talk is really cheap.The Rite competitor has five outlets of interest, Pasea,Road Reef,Nanny Cay, East End and Fine Foods, but I don’t hear any bitching about that.
@Expat…. you need to shut youd mouth. There are 10,000 reasons why you need to shut your dam mouth.