Rising food prices eat into consumers' pockets
Monday, February 21, 2011
Locally January inflation hit 7.9 percent, its highest in 20 months making life difficult for ordinary Batswana.
Number-crunching however, is not uppermost in the minds of ordinary Batswana, for whom rising food prices are a grim reality encountered everyday on the shelves of supermarkets. Basic commodities such as milk, cooking oil and others are rising, while disposable incomes are static.
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