P60 daily wage and tagging panties: Rise of Robinsons Retail

Inquirer.net - Nov 8, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — At 23, Robina Gokongwei-Pe joined Robinsons Department Store as “bodegera,” a receiving clerk who manually counted inventory. It was 1984, and she was paid a daily wage of P60—equivalent to P600 in today’s prices. READ: RRHI core profit up 6% to P6.7B Her brother, Lance Gokongwei, spent his summers tagging women’s underwear. When he

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