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mkenyan wrote:murchr wrote:mkenyan wrote:kmucheke wrote:mkenyan wrote:murchr wrote:kayhara wrote: Was at a mtumba warehouse in Kongowea today, the bales are running low, stock will be out by end of month, if importation is not allowed retail traders will either have to start selling the new clothes or close or join others bringing in from TZ and UG illegally that is, they could start closing up.
There is also a war between mtumba cars and KRA still in the ring,
Most kenyans even those who can afford say new pair of school shoes from bata swear by mtumba shoes, BATA school shoes look 8 years old in the first week, mtumba school shoes usually last a full year or just don't fit anymore and are handed down.
For cars consumers complain that the new cars sold in kenya are very bare with few extras and for say the 5m getting a new toyota double cab can get you a top spec ford ranger and spare change on top.
in short Kenyans want quality items for fair price, I would like for mtumba clothes never to come back, some kenyans will fill in the gaps, quality will come up later. When you think of mitumba clothes being made at EPZ Athiriver... going to US/UK etc and then coming back as Mtumba and being sold at the same price as new, you have to wonder what is this quality we are seeking. not true More than 95% percent of clothing in the US is imported. I don't how much of this is from Kenya. But majority has to be from Asia. LinkWhere then does the US get the mitumba that is dumped in Kenya? so a new high end brand costs the same a mtumba? not even close What you think is high end brands "mitumba" are cheap knock offs, copies made in China. As an example donated high end clothes and other brands are sold to companies such as REBELLE and such like stores. In the west, if you can trade your items/clothes to some shops for a fraction of what you got it for and then the shops end up reselling these items. Most of the clothes that come into the country as Mitumba are cheap clothes donated to charities such as the Salvation Army or Goodwill, these stores select what they can sell and for sure some stuff is the real deal but their buyers spot these and value the items per its condition and sell it in their stores, then the rest is bundled and sold as mitumba. Quote:Apparel exports from Kenya to the US grew from US$254m in 2012 to US$338m in 2017. Yet Kenya accounts for only 0.4% of the US$80.3bn American apparel import market. In contrast, Bangladesh, a low-cost favourite, is approximately 9% more expensive than Kenya, but commands 6% of the US import market. There's enough info online my understating is that the second hand clothes come from all regions and not only china. the knockoffs are usually new clothes and not mtumba. You probably didnt understand what I wrote, read again "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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