pops wrote:its all well and good saying that we should be patriotic and buy kenyan products to shore up the shilling but the reallity is that kenyan industries are struggling and can not produce high quality products due to the high cost of power, labour, fuel, finance costs (thanks to the interest rate rise!) in this country. that is why goods produced in india and china can be shipped all this way, paid full duty on and still be sold cheaper than kenyan products! second thing is quality - compare local biscuits with imported ones from mauritius or south africa, simillar prices but big difference in quality. if i have choice in nakumatt i am definitely going to but the imported one, why should i pay for an inferior product at the same price? i think all businesses in this country are going to have rough run for the next few months and only the strongest will survive. its admirable the resillience businesses have in this country - they pay among the highest tax rates in the world and get zero support from their government apart from corruption and great infrastructure!
sad reality it is if most of what we produce are of inferior quality. but if all we do is import all these high quality goods from abroad, how do we pay for it. are kenyan workers of high quality?
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