Double blow for suppliers as retail chains sink

Nakumatt Supermarket at the Westside Mall in Nakuru on July 05, 2017. Photo/Suleiman Mbatiah/Standard

When suppliers put a foot down and turned Nakumatt and Uchumi supermarkets’ shelves empty, they were rightfully agitating for a monumental Sh40 billion debt.

But as the two retailers struggle and fizzle out, suppliers may be at the receiving end of the collapse, with irredeemable stock of debt and collapse of the sole avenue to sell their products.