If you buy a stock of food and keep it in your shanty house, it might be stolen by the neighbour who peeps through the hole in the mabati wall, the house might be razed down by the landlord who wants to throw you out so as to increase the rent, your jobless brother who shares the hovel with you might consume it since you left nothing for lunch when you left for kibarua in industrial area.

Please spend some time in the slums to appreciate how your fellow kenyans live. I have, both in Kibera and Mathare 4A.

I think Kiash is very right... Almost everyone in kenya likes it cheap. Cheap must be weighed against something for it to make sense. Why would someone but 5 very finely chopped peaces of meat along with their Githeri and pay an extra 20 bob or 30 bob because it is githeri special and not githeri plain? Why would someone buy sugar in spoons day in day out whereas it would be much cheaper to just purchase quarter a KG? Why would someone pick one car over the other just on the basis of price and in total disregard of all other factors? In MY (note that) opinion, sometimes one needs to see the bigger picture. Sometimes that is what it take to get out or rat race.

The kadogo economy is a rip off? Everything sold in small bundles is expensive. Compare prices of consumables like soap and flour from supermarkets(cheapest retailers) with prices of wholesalers. In supply chain, it's called breaking the bulk...

The kadogo economy is driven by the amount of income one has, the market for the 15 shilling packet are the kenyans with the a breakfast budget of Sh 30 - 50 (depending on family size). You buy the milk and add to water regardless of dilution to make tea, you then buy sugar, majani and accompaniments (ndazi, kangumu or chapo) with the difference.

And then mguu mpaka inda.

The only challenge this sh 15 packet will have to contend with is the milk hawkers. I bet the hawkers are already offering a better deal.

But at the end of the day (month) these guys end up spending more than double what the normal folks would spend.
@Sheri there is nothing like majuu kuharibu there are people who wait for sale or go for distances just to buy stuff in bulk so as to save some few coins.
At one time or another i think one needs to do some sacrifice to enjoy something else another day.If this guy buys a packet of 500ML and drinks 100ml per day,he will spend sijui 45sh.If he decides to be doing it daily,for 5 days for the same quantity he will spend 75sh