The supermarket model may hold the key to our economic growth

By XN IRAKI

The world’s biggest supermarket, Wal-Mart has tried to get a foothold in India but it long landed on mainland China and more recently in South Africa after buying into Massmart. Closer home, supermarkets have been an economic phenomenon in the last two decades. Uchumi pioneered and even got listed in the stock exchange. It seems to me our government was once very foresighted, starting Uchumi long before supermarkets proliferated into every estate and hamlet.