Yesterday, as I was on my way to Guruve, I passed through one of the leading supermarket chains along First Street to get few bottles of mineral water to take with me. However following the recent price controls basic commodities have disappeared from supermarkets leaving the staff with nothing to do except dust and clean the shelves.

After realising that there was no mineral water in the empty fridges I noticed that there was an unusual funny smell in the supermarket. The shelves that I last saw fully packed with 2 litre bottles of Mazoe orange crush a couple of months ago were now packed with 2 litre scuds of ‘masese’ (opaque beer).

Foodstuffs and other basic commodities are supposed to be found in this supermarket and these scuds should be found in beer halls, night clubs and bottle stores. There is also a shortage of beer across the country, and now it is found in a supermarket. Imagine buying meat, pork sausages and other beef products from a bottle store.

Yes, products delivered at the right time, to the wrong place.

So, instead of looking for various products where they should be found, expect the unexpected.

This entry was posted on September 4th, 2007 at 12:20 pm by Dennis Nyandoro and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.