PAGASA is an Associate Member of the Phil. Retailers Assn. (PRA) since supermarkets retail only food (and dry goods) in general. A the 1st Quarter General Meeting of the PRA, they had a speaker from Singapore Post (or SingPost)>Singapore privatized their Post Office knowing well that snail mail may soon be a thing of the past and transformed the facilities of this entity into an e-Commerce operation servicing Asian companies from web design to deliveries. Now they are offering Phil. companies their services. CBRE presented the new commercial landscape of retailing including Upcoming Retail Developments. They also invited 37-year old Karl Kendrick Chua/Senior Country Economist of the World Bank in the Philippines who delved on how the retail industry can help alleviate poverty and improve equality in our economy.