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Why some great Kenyan brands are slowly fading from the market

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NAIROBI, KENYA: There was a time, two years ago when Achieng’ did all her monthly shopping at Nakumatt Supermarket. She remembers wheeling the shopping cart between neatly arranged rows of shelves, slowly and carefully shifting her gaze from one shelf to the other.

Clean and spacious, Achieng says, Nakumatt offered her a certain shopping experience unavailable in other retail stores.  And she loved it.  

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