How about a little arithmetic for you this side of the day? What do you get when you have 14 pouch meals in gravy (@100g) going for GHC17.50? What you get is a simple arithmetic where you divide 17.50 by 14 pouch meals. You get: GHC1.25. That's 1.25 ghana cedis per pouch meal.
So, how on earth is it possible to get the same pouch meal of 100g going for...GHp0.90?
1. Could it be that GAME management has poor supervisors?
2. Could it be that it is GAME's way of ensuring that they cheat customers, knowing most of them are middle class and would not miss a couple of ghana cedis?
3. Could it simply be that the profit motive for GAME blinds them to distraction?
Whatever your question/answer formulation, I was profoundly disappointed when I asked a GAME attendant why this discrepancy, and all he could say was..."ah, that's GAME for you!"
So, what is it? Conspiracy?
Remember my "Tale of Two Twixes" in March? To err is human, but to persist...
4 comments:
did you check the expiry dates on them?
i nearly did that once at Koala and only realised at the check out counter that one of the items was a few days past expiry
I find inexplicable pricing all the time in Ghanaian supermarkets.
But isn't the real discrepancy that some dogs in Ghana receives pricier (and likely more nutritional) dinners than many human beings in Ghana?
kindly follow the comments on my Facebook profile. Quite a number of interesting insights there.
As for your issue on the expiry dates, MaxMart likes to bring down its prices considerably when the expiry date is close, but I have rarely seen it expiring completely. If that is the case, then we are in SERIOUS trouble!
Kajsa, wow. That's a heavy one; Erm, the real discrepancy is, erm, real, but it's the reality, y'know. That is to say, just because there are mouths that don't get food to eat does not mean that those who have CHOSEN to feed a dog cannot do so. If a mouth is not fed, it's a serious indictment on those around who CHOSE to bring a child in the world, but cannot afford to feed him/her. Ofcourse, failed govtal policies are also another thing...
In the end, it's about choice, no? WHy deprive a dog you have as a pet from food because a neighbour cannot afford to feed his/her child? Is this not what they call moral relativism?
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