Ungefafanua kuumia mfuko ama kimwili. I have seen kungurus on tiktok wakipigana sweep huko over cheap chinese goods.
First you will be forced to take a 10km stroll viewing and assessing stuff you don't care about. Then, after you are all tired and ready to do anything to leave the place, you will be presented with a small mountain of items she never realized she needed. And since you are too exhausted to process the damage that is about to happen, you will go ahead and pay for the small mountain. The real cost sinks in the next day when you try to enumerate the alternative projects that could have benefited from that spending.
So tiring someone is a tactic they employ, it pays to be a silent person then.
Hizo ni cartels. They are fighting for the right to sell you items at exorbitant prices.
Hii ni kawaida. You just put your foot down. Just drive her there, tell her to call you after amemaliza shopping, halafu unaingia mahali hapo unaitisha kanusu. Ask for chips or Lyonnaise takeaway for her umpatie when she inevitably smells the goat meat on your breath.
Kamakis is less than 3km away
It is understandable because government policy is not to allow foreigners to do jobs that Kenyans can do especially low end jobs. Lakini as a consumer, asituletee priss. This place is a 5 minute drive from my home and I can get anything I want rather than going to town and the dirty, dusty and crazy Eastleigh.Seems like this store has rattled kamukunji, gikomba, Eastleigh traders. What do you think of CS kuria's suggestionKuria reveals talks with Prof Wainaina on China Square
"We welcome Chinese investors to Kenya but as manufacturers not traders."www.the-star.co.ke
Wasomali, being major shareholders in government will resist.
Nilipitia hapo jana. Wueh. When I tell you the place is chaotic and full.... People are parked at National Oil, others on the service lane, wengine kwa nyasi. They are even locking the gate to prevent more people from going in.
If I am not mistaken these Nyamakima and Rifarori Guys were a constant thorn on Konyagi’s legitimate fight against counterfeit goods and tax cheating.
This line is very lame, ever heard of distribution chain and job creation ? Would China permit such by foreign nationals ? Do you know goods for "repair" can't be shipped back to China literally sembuse kufungua mall huko.
Somalis don't make noise kama sisi business community they lobby with heavy pockets.
These are very different analogies ama zinaitwoje. China square inaleta finished goods or to be clear , manufacturers who sold you goods at the factory wanafungua factory outlets mpiganie soko.
China mall is just a supermarket like any other, only that it offers a wide variety of products. They are not outlets for manufacturers as you want to claim. Actually, you could find a huge chunk of what they are selling at cheaper prices in the city if you search hard enough. You would not admit that trading in Kenya means fleecing ignorant customers. And this is a culture deeply ingrained in business. I usually buy items from Aliexpress, and it is not unusual to find the same items selling in local shops at ten times what I pay at Aliexpress. Nothing justifies such margins. If I could not buy from Aliexpress, I would not afford the products at all.