The butchery is closed, metres of shelves are empty save for a single brand of shampoo and, worst of all, the toilet paper is out-of-stock.
Once a Kenyan success story, homegrown Nakumatt supermarkets are grappling with product shortages so severe even the country’s best-known cartoonist has taken notice, lampooning the company’s slogan in a recent drawing as, “You need it, we don’t have it”.
