'Superpricing in supermarkets'

Last week I reported on a supermarket chain that was charging extraordinary markups on the goods it had imported from South Africa.


They made the mistake of leaving the price in Rand on the goods and adding a new price sticker with the Pula price. An item on sale in South Africa for R150 was selling here for P176. Once you take account of the difference rates of VAT in South Africa and the current exchange rate that suggested the stores here in Botswana were marking up the price by almost 40%.

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