THE cost of living continues to spiral beyond the reach of many with sugar souring to a high of US$4,00 per 2kgs over the last weekend.to several tuckshops downtown, as well as traders located in selected suburbs, revealed that ordinary folk will be left with no choice except to imbibe sugarless tea if the situation obtaining on the ground persists.
"This translates to UIS$3,30 per pocket of sugar and if I add the transportation costs and what a few you will bear with us that we are not even making much profit but just servicing our customers," he said. When our news crew visited wholesalers the same sentiments echoed by the tuck shop owners were confirmed by the prices of the commodity with workers manning the wholesale outlets accusing suppliers of the mayhem.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
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