Pe­ter Christo­pher

Se­nior Re­porter

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

Sales did not slow down at Massy Stores for the Christ­mas pe­ri­od.

De­spite be­ing the sub­ject of many jokes or in­ter­net memes for much of the past week, crowds con­tin­ued to flock to the Massy Stores on Fri­day and yes­ter­day, as thou­sands went to the gro­ceries around the coun­try to do last-minute shop­ping or se­cure Christ­mas spe­cials ad­ver­tised by the su­per­mar­ket chain.

Massy Stores’ mar­ket­ing team con­firmed that its stores had been ex­treme­ly busy, par­tic­u­lar­ly on Fri­day as we sought an in­ter­view to con­firm if sales had been pos­i­tive.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Massy Stores in West­moor­ings yes­ter­day and saw a full car park and a reg­u­lar stream of ve­hic­u­lar and pedes­tri­an traf­fic.

Massy Stores is one of the com­pa­nies un­der the um­brel­la of the Massy Hold­ings group. Last week at a Massy Hold­ings share­hold­ers’ meet­ing, the group’s Ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent, Busi­ness In­tegri­ty & Group Gen­er­al Coun­sel An­gelique Parisot-Pot­ter ques­tioned for­eign ex­change spend­ing on in­ter­na­tion­al train­ing ses­sions at Fort My­ers, Flori­da.

Parisot-Pot­ter al­so ques­tioned what those ses­sions en­tailed with the sug­ges­tion that they in­volved ‘bizarre rit­u­als’ and ‘high­ly du­bi­ous ac­tiv­i­ties’.

Parisot-Pot­ter has since been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave un­til Jan­u­ary 12, 2024, or un­til the com­ple­tion of an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The group has since de­nied that the ses­sions in­volved ques­tion­able ac­tiv­i­ties.

How­ev­er, be­fore and since mak­ing a state­ment deny­ing the ses­sions were ques­tion­able in prac­tice, Massy and, in par­tic­u­lar, Massy Stores has been the ob­ject of sev­er­al vi­ral in­ter­net posts and jokes about the brand’s in­volve­ment in weird prac­tices.

Sev­er­al Massy Stores branch­es are set to be open overnight, with all branch­es set to close lat­er to­day.