A new store using the old Green Lantern restaurant site is due to pop up over the next four weeks.

The series of Saturday events, the brainchild of Andrea Dismont Trott, a property manager and entrepreneur, will feature a range of colourful fair trade handbags, jewellery and textiles sourced in the Highlands of Guatemala.

And Ms Dismont Trott — who runs Home, Wine & More — said the pop up store, popular elsewhere, could be the future of Bermuda retailing.

She added: “People are going to have to do things which are flexible — you test something out, it works, fine.

“I don’t know what the end point of this will be — I’m doing it as experimentation. I’m not investing huge amounts of money.

“But the time is past when you had bricks and mortar enterprises.

“Retail has to be flexible and innovative. We have to think of new ways of doing things.”

Cancer survivor Ms Dismont Trott picked up fair trade goods with the help of a guide when she took a trip to Guatemala celebrate the end of two years of treatment.

She said: “I’m going to be showcasing some scarves, clothes, table runners and some art from Guatemala and some very fine bead jewellery.”

She visited a variety of women’s co-operatives on “a scouting trip” last summer to see if she could introduce new products and styles to the island.

Ms Dismont Trott, who is the property manager for the Green Lantern site on Pembroke’s Serpentine Road, said: “I had a guide who knew a lot about the variety of co-operatives, which was a great help.”

The store will run inside the old Green Lantern and in the parking lot next to it for four consecutive Saturdays, starting this weekend.

Ms Dismont Trott said: “While the owners of the property are deciding what to do with the building, they are allowing pop ups there.

“I want to test it to see if there is a market for a Saturday store there. I’d like to make into a weekly event if it works out.”

And she added: “I’m also trying to encourage farmers to come and sell their produce as well.”

The pop up store will also feature furniture sourced for a previous show, as well as other pieces sold on consignment for the owners and the popular Smokin’ Barrel lunch wagon will also be on site.

A total of ten percent of the price of the consignment goods — five percent from Ms Dismont Trott and five percent from the owner — will go to nominated charities.

Ms Dismont Trott said: “I’m a property manager, but I also do a lot of things as a cancer survivor because I want to give back and in business I want to give back too.”

For more information, contact Ms Dismont Trott on 532 1893 or e-mail home.wine.and.more@gmail.com.