{"id":9693,"date":"2012-04-27T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:20:14","slug":"sugar-supply-normalises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/27\/sugar-supply-normalises\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar supply normalises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Sugar hiccups that rocked the country for the past few months seem to have normalised as consumers are now able to purchase the commodity without hassles.<\/p>\n<p>A snap check at retail shops in Blantyre on Wednesday conducted by the Business Times revealed that the once scarce commodity is now available in all major retail outlets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7774\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7774\" class=\" wp-image-7774 \" title=\"sugar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sugar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supply normalizing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Samuel Dziko a consumer said the situation seems to have stabilised as customers are now allowed to purchase any quantity they wish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The queues for sugar are no longer there. I was able to purchase ten packets today (Wednesday) without any problems,&#8221; said Dziko.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers could be seen walking out from shops with bales of sugar which was not the case weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Major retail shops resorted to sugar rationing in an effort to satisfy consumers.<\/p>\n<p>However, though the commodity is now available shop owners in townships are still selling the commodity at a much higher price.<\/p>\n<p>A hawker owner in Limbe said the prices cannot just go down at the moment because the stock they have was bought at a higher price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we reduce the price then we will be making losses. Consumers have to wait for a price reduction after the stock is finished,&#8221; said the source.<\/p>\n<p>The scarcity of sugar saw the price jumping from K215 per 1 kilogram packet to K450 per packet.<\/p>\n<p>The high price forced government to intervene by monitoring and closing down shops that were selling the commodity at higher prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar hiccups that rocked the country for the past few months seem to have normalised as consumers are now able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[340,258,1359,1794],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-lilongwe","tag-malawi","tag-shoprite","tag-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}