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Consumers dazzled by ‘new normal’ high cost of items that sticks to upward trend

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A customer picks fruits at a supermarket in Nyeri.
 

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By  Peter Mburu

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • An analysis of different commodity prices over the past five years shows that since 2019.
  • Over the five years, fuel prices have doubled, while electricity increased by 78 per cent.

Marion Atieno (not her real name), a Nairobi resident, has vivid memories of 2019 as if it was yesterday.

Her memories, though, are largely not about the academic journey as she was in campus at the time.

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