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Nothing good or of benefit to common mwananchi can be allowed to thrive.
Those rich Nyamakima birrioneas mnataka wauzie nani their counterfeit goods?
mwafrika hawezi saidika
Mnyambuo umebadilisha handle name
Those ghaseers are panicking for no reason. Hii Kenya watu huwa idle sana, when something new comes along it becomes the talk of town for a few weeks then we promptly forget about it. Ata SGR tulikuwa tunaimbiwa nonstop, siku hizi no one mentions it. Ata hii China Square ingefika hapo. The only thing it offers is the convenience of shopping for all your tucker tuckers under one roof…but they’re not necessarily cheaper than kamukunji/Nyamakima/Eastleigh. Washienzi hawajui mashimo ndio wanaisifu.
This mall has been empty for the last 5 + years, and nobody was willing to be a tenant. Then kukipatkana mteja, it’s when they realize there’s something that can be done.
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Meanwhile izi ndizo bidhaa znazopatkana huko
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Surely, ata bidhaa worth several thousands wamefake wakauza 440 bob
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And then raiya took it seriously
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Government is more concerned about the nyakakima mirrionaires than it does the Hundreds or thousands that got employed by China Square. Hustler ataware… Tawara
Na rent pia
This country is literally run like a kiosk
Temporary closure
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Kama wanalipa ushuru shida iko wapi, hii nugu inaitwo kuria inajiskianga mafuta sana.
They should just jack up their prices
Rink
Mr Cheng opened the business on January 29 this year and in the first two weeks, he made sales worth Sh 20 million.
On Saturday, he said his daily sales volumes have more than doubled thanks to genius market pricing, a chance social media marketing and referral clients.
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“We opened this store on January 29 this year. We are barely a month old. In the first two weeks in business, our sales turnover was Sh20 million. Nowadays, on a bad day we sell goods worth Sh10 million,” Mr Cheng offers confidently.
He maintains that his business model is friendly and appeals to many Kenyans who despite low earnings are suffering under the high cost of living.
He claims that the same lot has long been exploited by businessmen who sell to them basic items at a premium.
Mr Cheng has been in the eye of the storm this week after Kenyan traders protested against his business model.
The traders accused Mr Cheng of slashing prices by almost half thereby cutting them off from the market.
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On Saturday, Nation found him sitting unperturbed in his office at Kenyatta University-owned UniCity Mall along Thika Super Highway, Kiambu county.
He was not even bothered by Mr Kuria’s outburst that he has given the university a counteroffer to buy out his lease and hand it over to the Gikomba, Nyamakima, Muthurwa and Eastleigh traders and edge China Square out of business.
Mr Cheng wondered what the hullabaloo was all about.
“My business is legal and is centred on healthy competition. We have cooperated with all government directives for opening a business in Kenya and we are here to break the monopoly. The people who are fighting us feel threatened because Kenyans now know we exist and we are not exploiting them in pricing,” Mr Cheng told Nation.
A graduate in International Trade from a South African University, Mr Cheng, 37, says business is about knowing where to buy and who you are selling to and creating a sustainable supply chain.
He says he has cultivated this for many years in China and locally.
His business currently employs 130 people.
He says he was very shocked to read Mr Kuria’s utterances on social media saying when he was applying for the licences there is nowhere he was told that “Chinese are not allowed to do business in Kenya”.
“Kenya is a very good country and its people are very friendly. I was very shocked by trade minister Moses Kuria’s utterances because this may heavily slow down foreign investments in Kenya and I think the minister should support ethical businesses like the one we have here that create opportunities for Kenyans and pays huge taxes to the government,” Mr Cheng reasoned.
“If other foreigners can do business in Kenya so can Chinese because we have done nothing wrong. Our customers are happy because we have drastically reduced our prices. Business is about serving customers and they have been our biggest referral,” Mr Cheng noted wearing a grin.
He says China Square is already working with local companies that have approached them for partnership. He cited the huge traffic the shop has generated to the once-dull UniCity Mall that is now brimming with business.
The mall has been operating at just 10 per cent occupancy after being snubbed by local supermarkets that quietly withdrew after noticing it did not attract foot high traffic, a key mainstay for supermarkets operating outside Nairobi.
When the Nation visited the mall on Saturday at 11:47am, it was almost full with queues stretching metres away.
The parking lot was also full forcing motorists to wait in long queues.
To be fair, selling goods at below cost is an illegal practice called dumping
Hii Kenya you can’t win… Kenyans will complain at anything, sell expensive they complain, sell cheap that too they complain… We hear kuria is an importer of phones accessories so there you go… He has an interest to protect, hawa traders are just pawns.
To be fair that’s bullshit and it’s a free market
Are the chinese really selling the goods at below production costs?..or are the goods at KU priced lower than their prices in China? Not very sure but i highly doubt…i think they are just efficient producers. And do kenyan companies really manufacture those goods ama what manufacturing industry of ours are the chinese killing? If so then there should be anti- dumping regulations or kuria could also resort to countervailing measures to protect our similar industries…not a total ban as he has proposed
What is happening is they’re selling the same goods “importer” have been selling at but at scale. They have eliminated the vampiric middle men