Duty Free Island Shop
Caribbean duty-free travel retailer. 40k SKUs, 3 currencies, regulatory compliance for tobacco and spirits, and BFCM-grade load handling, rebuilt on Magento 2 with Varnish, Redis, and custom load balancer config.
Overview
A Caribbean duty-free travel retailer with 40k SKUs, 3 currencies, and strict regulatory compliance for tobacco and spirits needed BFCM-grade load handling.
We rebuilt the store on Magento 2 with Varnish, Redis, and a custom load-balancer configuration to keep the site fast and stable through peak travel-season traffic.
The challenge
The legacy store crashed every BFCM. Compliance gates for tobacco and spirits were enforced only at checkout, far too late. The 3-currency catalogue was a manual mess.
What we built
A Magento 2 rebuild with Varnish, Redis, and custom load-balancer routing. Compliance gating moved to category-page entry, checking jurisdiction and age before browsing. Real-time FX rates with edge caching.
What changed
- Zero downtime during BFCM 2025 (was crashing every year)
- Median page load 2.1s, down from 5.8s
- 40k SKUs migrated with 100% data integrity
- Compliance complaints to local regulators dropped to zero
Built with
Screenshots from the live build
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