Operation Review: Pitcairn Island General Store
19th May 10

The Pitcairn Island General StoreThe Pitcairn Islands group is the last remaining British territory in the Pacific. There are four islands in the group of which only Pitcairn Island itself is inhabited. It is famous for being the island to which Fletcher Christian and other Bounty mutineers sailed in 1790. Pitcairn Island is two miles long and a mile wide and is home to 55 people. The group is very remote and is supplied by ship from New Zealand only four times a year.

Roger Watkins of GIC visited the Island in March 2010 to review the operation of the General Store for the Overseas Territories Department of the Department for International Development, which has provided budgetary support to the Island since the collapse in revenue from stamp sales. The General Store is the only regular means for supply to the Islanders of foodstuffs and other essentials to maintain life on the island.

GIC reviewed all aspects of the operations and management of the General Store and made recommendations to improve its stock control through a simple Point of Sale application, its management through training, and its financial management and control reporting to the Pitcairn Island Office in Auckland.

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