Supermercados Selectos is a Puerto Rican supermarket company.
The first four Supermercados Selectos stores opened in 1978, after Carlos Torres, a Puerto Rican businessman, took the initiative of organizing a number of small mom-and-pop ("colmado") stores group into one integrated company, in order to compete against larger supermarkets.
[2] Another one of the chain's first owners was Ignacio Veloz Camejo, honorary president of Centro Unido de Detallistas de Puerto Rico since 1991.
[3] In 2018, Supermercados Selectos celebrated its 40 years in business with a large dinner in Caguas.
[8] Supermercados Econo - another Puerto Rican supermarket chain with a similar business model