BY DAYO ADESULU
Former Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani has said that if Shoprite wants to leave Nigeria, the South African retail grocery store was free to exit, adding that their exit would boost local supermarkets.
Sani, while reacting in a tweet to Shoprite’s plan to quit its outlets across the country said: “If Shoprite wants to stay, they can stay; if they want to go, they can go; it will help local supermarkets to grow.”
Shoprite Holdings Limited, a South African company with hundreds of outlets in Nigeria, had said it may discontinue its operations in Nigeria.
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The company stated this in its “Operational and Voluntary Trading Update” released on Monday.
According to Shoprite, the decision was due to the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak.
