Don't read economic history; write it. Ordinary people don't do what they do based on what economists say; they do what they do based on their everyday reality. Zimbabwe has structural problems in her socio-economic organization. Ordinary people are merely coping up with that. This is just an adaptation. No ordinary person invented tuck shops and US dollars. Our situation made them necessary. Let's fix the disease, not the symptom. Yes, every single shelf in a supermarket shall be rented out. It's called a flea market.

At independence the economy was the envy of Africa, and the new black leaders were just ordinary leaders. But now the economy is in a sorry state and our leaders (mostly the same recycled leaders) are filthy rich

mxxxx busy supporting small brief case businesses which dnt pay tax,dnt employ many pple,disregard labour laws.surely an economy run by tuckshops and you ****s are happy that tm ,truworth,choppies should close .well it's your time we will see

Organised labour with trade unions is a threat to the politics and people seem to be comfortable with the informal sector and the easily controllable public service.

I heard Truworths closed long ago and how many times do you want it to be closed. So many companies that are nolonger operating especially the clothing industry giant companies the likes of Heritage, this other one which used to do Van Heusen Shirts i doubt if it still exist, Concord the suit makers, just to mention a few. Welcome to nyika where we can buy from bhero shame!

I have seen the comments of Zanu PF Apologists saying they must go, let's just watch the economy turn into a full force informal economy which doesn't invest, doesn't pay taxes, no pension contributions, yes let's celebrate the tuckshop republic of Zimbabwe which mostly deals with smuggled goods no duties paid whatsoever, yes let's rejoice every space in the CBD being turned into a tuckshop, hurray to former factories being converted into warehouses for storing imported goods from South Africa and China, congratulations to a soon incoming informalisation which doesn't want a local currency only takes the USD so they can repatriate it back home. Wow with all of this one would need to be an **** of elephantine proportions to doubt the middle income economy target of 2030. Praise to Zanu PF for attracting informal traders from all over the region, the Indian sub-continent and China to siphon the USD through their tuckshops. Ladies and Gentlemen the first country in the world to achieve an upper middle income economy anchored on the Republic of the CBD Tuckshops wow just wow. An Upper Middle Income Economy with no strong manufacturing base while the one which is there will be forced to scale down or close as the Association of the CBD Tuckshops only deals with imported goods which are smuggled into the country, aah aaah wait I forget to mention that some are fake products just like the fake colgate which was making the rounds just recently 😅😅, but who cares we soon caught with the charade so what harms done just as long as the industry is dead exacerbated by 24hrs of blackouts but surprisingly heading to an upper middle income economy. I wouldn't blame them for not paying taxes since we never feel our contributions being ploughed back to lessen the load, instead they choose to buy cars so who would blame someone for not paying tax to such a government.

Team zany pf mauraya nyika

Republic of tuckshops, that's why we don't have a single mall in Zimbabwe...

Zveshuwa mungato gwadamiswa ne informal sector here vanhu vari digitised I think kudaro, isai ma promotion rebrand and repackage your products, tandzwa wee nekutengeserwa substandard product in the name of a dollar 2kg dze rise dzingaite zvima grains zvingani mukati mayo nekuti iii informal haisi genuine we

Let them close and go. They are supplied with goods from the same manufacturer but the so called formal shops are too expensive. Who on earth go to an expensive shop leaving cheap once. Let the formal compete and if they cannot stand the heat ngavavhare. Uchanzwa umwe achiti heee vanobhadhara rent heee what what, asingabhadhari rent ndiani? Huya kuno kuma tuckshop down town tobhahara rent sezvavanoita ve formal shops but still our prices are lower.

The big retail shops should review their USD pricing regime. Their products are very expensive in USD, for instance they are making super profits from little sales.

These large companies truly lack any sense of self awareness...Are you telling me they are feeling the pinch from the small businesses that have to pay more in taxes and lack the backing of the banking system 🤣🤣🤣...The large retailers must be headed by some pretty incompetent nepo-babies because surely no1 in their right mind would throw a hissy fit over the informal sector....Black excellence is coming to the fore and driving away the old relics of colonialism back to their cold continents.....Rant over sanity restored

WHAT THESE MONOPOLIES CALL INFORMAL TRADERS ARE ACTUALLY THE REAL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES THE GVT LAUNCHED THROUGH THE BLACK EMPOWERMENT POLICY. IF ITS HOT IN THE KITCHEN GET OUT. I LOVE THE SUCCESS BEING DONE BY THESE BUSY BEES. THEY DON'T SLEEP AT ALL. THEY SLEEP IN BUSES WITH THEIR GOODS FROM ZAMBIA TANZANIA RSA BOTSWANA NAMIBIA ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE AND GO TO THEIR VARIOUS SELLING POINTS AND MARKET THEIR WARES. FRUSTRATED BY COMPANIES CLOSING DOWN AND DENYING THEM A SOURCE OF INCOME THESE GALLANT SONS INSTEAD OF REBELLING AGAINST GVT, THEY UNDERTOOK TO DO BUSINESS AND BE MASTERS OF THEIR OWN. NOW THE CAPITALIST IS CRYING FOUL. UNTIL WE OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND BE MASTERS OF OUR OWN ECONOMY, THAT INDEPENDENCE IS VALUELESS SO SAID THE FOUNDING FATHER THE LATE FIRST SECRETARY CDE PRESIDENT RG MUGABE. THE WHOLE ECONOMY MUST BE BLACK RUN. LET THEM GO HOME OTHERS WILL TAKEOVER. WE HAVE MILLIONS OF OUR CHILDREN IN THE DIASPORA WHO ARE READY TO COME HOME AND INVEST. YES LET THEM GO. THE INFORMAL WILL HONESTLY BE FORMAL ONE DAY. WHO EVER THOUGHT THOES WHO WERE LABELED TERRORISTS YESTERDAY ARE THE PROUD SOLDIERS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL ZIMBABWE TODAY.

Ngavhare vaende. Ndovharikutokanganisa zvinhu