Month: Jan 2019

If you check just about any shelf in supermarkets across Africa, you’re likely to find quite an abundance of imported products:  Chinese clothes and small items, canned fish and vegetable oils from Portugal, milk products from Holland, rice from the Americas, chocolates from Switzerland, and a host of other products which could actually be sourced …

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Retail had high hopes for Black Friday, November 23. However, in traditional stores, results weren’t as good as expected: A 10% drop in spending and a 2% drop in sales volumes compared to 2017. [Vend] It wasn’t as if consumers didn’t get the message, they did. Discounts, too, were on or above par with 2017. …

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