Choppies supermarket sends home employees as it prepares to exit Kenya

Choppies Supermarket Kisumu branch. The retailer has already closed some of its branches amid stockouts as operating costs rise. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Botswana-based Choppies Supermarket has laid off over 200 workers days after it emerged the struggling retailer plans to exit the Kenyan market.

Termination letters signed by the company’s Human Resource Manager Joshua Were cited redundancy in carrying out the exercise.