The price of sugar has risen to a one-year high, driven by an acute shortage in the market that retailers have attributed to the ongoing crackdown on contraband stocks.
A two-kilogramme packet of sugar is now retailing at Sh275 in Naivas supermarkets having shot up from Sh200 last month, a 35 per cent increase. Tuskys and Choppies are selling the commodity at Sh260 a kilogramme.
