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Sweets-for-coins supermarket unfair
Posted Thursday, September 9 2010 at 12:48
I am writing as a citizen with a lean purse. On Sunday, September 5 at about noon, I bought items at Uchumi Supermarkets Jogoo Road branch.
I went to pay, then the cashier decides I should have sweets instead of my loose change.
This had happened to the customer ahead of me and my son on the queue.
I told the cashier, I didn’t want sweets. He ignored me. After minutes he threw three sweets on the counter next to me and continued.
At the till, there was not a single shilling. Why did I smell a rat and think that this was intentional?
Why is Uchumi forcing us to buy sweets?
EVELYN OPIYO, Nairobi
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Submitted by IGICHINGAPosted September 11, 2010 02:12 AM
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Submitted by Governer
Supermarkets and sweet making companies have been colluding to fleece kenyans next time demand your money leave the shopping with them and walk out they will act I did that and they sure got to there senses. If they insist on giving us those poisons why profit from them. They should provide them at cost. They make profit from your shopping as well as change.
Posted September 10, 2010 10:13 AM
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now you have spoken,i still cannot accept sweets for change why don't they round off the prices to the nearest 10 or 5 if they lack change? do you know sweets is a destroyer of teeth,even if they were good nobody should make u buy something against your choice.