Familiar script: Errors that have turned Kenya into a retailers’ graveyard

Bouncing cheques to suppliers of Tuskys Supermarkets have rekindled bitter memories of billions of shillings lost in similar fashion from other collapsed giant retailers in the not too distant past.

And while there is talk of a rescue plan by strategic investors, there is something eerily similar with Tuskys’ saga to that of Nakumatt, Uchumi and Ukwala before it that has left suppliers sceptical.