Nakumatt (Kenya): Once the largest supermarket chain in East Africa
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This is the story of a Nakuru mattress shop that grew, in twenty five years, into the largest supermarket chain on the eastern side of the continent. And then, in the space of thirty six months, disappeared. It is the largest documented family retail collapse in modern East African business history. And it is the specific case study that every Kenyan supermarket founder standing today, from Naivas to Quickmart to Chandarana, quietly measures themselves against. This is Nakumatt.
