Ur'aro Community Store

Ur'aro Community Store Pty Ltd
PMB 8, Kalumburu Community via Wyndham. Western Australia. 6740
Phone: 08.91614575
Fax: 08.91614587

uraro@bigpond.com

ACN: 115 849 299

ABN: 92 115 849 299

The businesses corporate strategy for the next three years has several clear objectives:

• to ensure that organisational accountability, transparency, effective governance and economic sustainability are achieved:


• make sufficient profit to pay for overheads, wages, accommodation, scheduled replacement of capital items and the servicing of any debt


• to target nutritional health, identify and implement methods of improvement through the supply and availability of quality fresh foods


• to lower the cost of living within the Kalumburu Community and support the social development of its members


• to create training and mainstream employment opportunities within the community.

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Uraro Community Store, built in 1980 is derived from a private company with one shareholder, the Corporation. It is the primary retail outlet for this thriving community including surrounding outstations and the ever-increasing tourism market. The enterprise addresses a wide range of the areas of retail vertical markets including groceries, hardware, clothing, kitchenware, giftware, fuel, gas, prepared foods, frozen goods, white goods, sporting goods and automotive accessories.

Management endeavours to: Identify “best practise” in terms of nutritional programs marketed by the store for the Kalumburu Community and its customers. The management will continue to assess the capacity of the store in relation to best practise, and increase sales of healthier foods.

Uraro Store management has commenced a strategy to demonstrate its commitment to nutritional health and improving the range of products available.

We aim to:

• Introduce a comprehensive range of fresh produce packaged in store representing ++ kg of fresh produce bi-weekly at affordable competitive prices
• Introduce low fat Yoghurts and a range of dairy products consistent with nutritional health requirements
• Introduce hi-fibre breads including whole-meals, multi-grains and cereals
• Introduce a range of salt reduced products and iodised salt as recommended by agencies
• Uraro seeks dialogue, advice and guidance by local health service providers on key issues effecting nutritional health promotion and strategies for the store to develop.

As the major source of food and nutrition in the community, Uraro Store has a major role to play in promoting the physical well being of the community and can be thought of as an essential service or a commercial enterprise.

Utilising committees to help guide in the operation of the store, we apply policies which can benefit the community in a variety of ways, including the use of effective nutrition policies, the range, volume and price of foods.

Operating a book-up system costs money and can contribute to the higher prices of products, EFTPOS on the other hand offers similar advantages to book-up, assists people in budgeting but adds not cost to the enterprise.

The kinds of food that people buy and how they prepare it is limited by the type of cooking and storage facilities that people have in their home. It is not unusual for fridges, freezers, stoves, storage cabinets, fry pans and on occasions even power to be unavailable.

The stores restrictions on food quality and quantity is also compromised by:

• Limited freezer space effects the quantity and range of meat and other frozen goods, it also effects the stores ability to have back up storage of food for the wet/cyclone season
• Limited cold storage space often limits the quantity, variety and availability of perishable foods, particularly of fruit and vegetables
• Limited resources for power back-up or access to refridgeration maintenance personnel can cause the loss of large amounts of fresh and frozen foods.
• Transporting food over long distances by barge and air can cause problems with food quality. Problem areas include bumpy roads, extra handling, length of delivery time and delivery refrigeration
• Transporting via barge or air is also extremely expensive

Monday to Friday: 7.30am - 4pm closed for lunch 12.30pm to 2pm. Saturday 8am to 11am and closed on Sunday & Public Holidays!