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Chaka
#291 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:27:13 AM
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What will you do after 28th Aug.when the ban on plastic bags takes effect?
sqft wrote:
Shopped at nakumatt yesterday but had to buy 2 nakumatt bags at 150 bob to carry my goods. They have no packaging at all. Wished I had gone elsewhere. Why are they so eager to implement the plastic ban before the due date? Ama ni cost saving? Do they expect me to be moving around with a "kiondo" to shop there? Wont be going back there any time soon.
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sqft
#292 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:48:39 AM
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Chaka wrote:
What will you do after 28th Aug.when the ban on plastic bags takes effect?
sqft wrote:
Shopped at nakumatt yesterday but had to buy 2 nakumatt bags at 150 bob to carry my goods. They have no packaging at all. Wished I had gone elsewhere. Why are they so eager to implement the plastic ban before the due date? Ama ni cost saving? Do they expect me to be moving around with a "kiondo" to shop there? Wont be going back there any time soon.



They (nakumatt) should have been innovative and switched from plastic to paper bags. Otherwise before august 28th customers will shop where their goods are packed. After aug 28th i see supermarkets moving to paper bags, like was the case before plastics came into the picture.

Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
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quicksand
#293 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:57:43 AM
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Chaka wrote:
What will you do after 28th Aug.when the ban on plastic bags takes effect?
sqft wrote:
Shopped at nakumatt yesterday but had to buy 2 nakumatt bags at 150 bob to carry my goods. They have no packaging at all. Wished I had gone elsewhere. Why are they so eager to implement the plastic ban before the due date? Ama ni cost saving? Do they expect me to be moving around with a "kiondo" to shop there? Wont be going back there any time soon.



The plastic ban is understandable - but I have been in the same predicament as @sqft here...I had some bulky items then as I approached the till I remembered I have to buy a bag. I didn't feel like forking out extra money that day so I returned most of the stuff, only bought 2 things which I could carry by hand.
The effect in the short term is that people will get more organized with shopping, and have to learn to carry eco-friendly bags to the supermarket (or keep them about their person), because buying a 50/- bag every time for impromptu shopping is not sustainable. In-promptu shopping itself is likely to drop. Alternatively, the Supermarkets (are you listening Nakumatt?) can sell these bags at cost, making them a bit more affordable. I wouldn't buying a small bag for 20 to 30 bob every time.
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sqft
#294 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 9:23:35 AM
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Interestingly, in Kigali Rwanda where there is a plastic paper ban, nakumatt branches there use paper bags. They should have just replicated what they do in rwanda here in Kenya. That would have given them a head start against other supermarkets. But instead they have chosen to inconvenience customers.


Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
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actuarywahisa
#295 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 9:37:47 AM
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Ericsson wrote:
Nakumatt woes is due to lack of credit


Whatever things we are seeing seem to only be symptoms....

https://www.standardmedi...fter-receiving-sh80-000

I was really shocked when the chief marketing officer stated yesterday that the current woes are a cumulative effect of incidents like the demolition of the Thika Rd branch during the construction of the superhighway, the fire at Nakumatt Downtown, the Westgate Incident. Yaani the guy thinks the public is full of totally blind idiots. #Yaliyondwele_Sipite!
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Ericsson
#296 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 10:02:12 AM
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actuarywahisa wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
Nakumatt woes is due to lack of credit


Whatever things we are seeing seem to only be symptoms....

https://www.standardmedi...fter-receiving-sh80-000

I was really shocked when the chief marketing officer stated yesterday that the current woes are a cumulative effect of incidents like the demolition of the Thika Rd branch during the construction of the superhighway, the fire at Nakumatt Downtown, the Westgate Incident. Yaani the guy thinks the public is full of totally blind idiots. #Yaliyondwele_Sipite!


That guy thinks we are nuts/foolish people.
I one time told him Nakumatt is shutting branches and he denied that no branch will be closed.
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kayhara
#297 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 10:12:18 AM
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sqft wrote:
Shopped at nakumatt yesterday but had to buy 2 nakumatt bags at 150 bob to carry my goods. They have no packaging at all. Wished I had gone elsewhere. Why are they so eager to implement the plastic ban before the due date? Ama ni cost saving? Do they expect me to be moving around with a "kiondo" to shop there? Wont be going back there any time soon.

Have they re-stocked? for the bag issue customers will have to get used, how I wish they don't extend the ban,I had to push the cart to the parking and dump my shopping in the backseat, I was okay but the empty shelves were what made me stay away from Nakumatt, the packaging supplier pulled out because of non payment, add to that that he is facing the ban so he was not looking forward to supplying a broke nakumatt
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kawi254
#298 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 10:46:16 AM
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kayhara wrote:
sqft wrote:
Shopped at nakumatt yesterday but had to buy 2 nakumatt bags at 150 bob to carry my goods. They have no packaging at all. Wished I had gone elsewhere. Why are they so eager to implement the plastic ban before the due date? Ama ni cost saving? Do they expect me to be moving around with a "kiondo" to shop there? Wont be going back there any time soon.

Have they re-stocked? for the bag issue customers will have to get used, how I wish they don't extend the ban,I had to push the cart to the parking and dump my shopping in the backseat, I was okay but the empty shelves were what made me stay away from Nakumatt, the packaging supplier pulled out because of non payment, add to that that he is facing the ban so he was not looking forward to supplying a broke nakumatt


I realised at the Nakumatt Village market till that i will not be getting my shopping packed into plastic bags/cartons and couldn't see how i would carry the shopping on my hands in a matatu so i shamelessly returned every single item to the shelf and left empty handed. Went to shop in a different supermarket.
The premature plastic ban is surely costing them because for sure i am not going back.
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kawambui
#299 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 11:19:25 AM
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obiero wrote:
hardwood wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Meanwhile Naivas opens a new branch at Ridgeways opposite Nakumatt Ridgeways without any debt...


It's not an industry thing


I said the future of retailing is Naivas. And Quickmatt. And chadarana.

The Naivas guys should be careful.. Our economy won't support their expansion especially if the same is credit driven


I heard the CMO say the funds were sourced internally. He really emphasized on it.
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maka
#300 Posted : Wednesday, July 05, 2017 11:59:33 AM
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kawambui wrote:
obiero wrote:
hardwood wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Meanwhile Naivas opens a new branch at Ridgeways opposite Nakumatt Ridgeways without any debt...


It's not an industry thing


I said the future of retailing is Naivas. And Quickmatt. And chadarana.

The Naivas guys should be careful.. Our economy won't support their expansion especially if the same is credit driven


I heard the CMO say the funds were sourced internally. He really emphasized on it.


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