I'm always appreciative of the amount of interesting things I learn here on Hive.
The latest thing to shock me has been the price of groceries in Nigeria. It appears they are the most expensive in the world!
Don't believe me?
Guess how much this 500g of pasta costs?
I'll tell you. $5.07. I know this because it was bought from Judel Supermarket using HBD by @lionsbane earlier in the week as 'reviewed' in this post
I also learned that pasta appears to be very popular over there and varies wildly in price because incredibly, another bag of the same brand was bought by @cofeecafe the following day from Cabofagi shopping centre, but this time cost $8.00 of HBD, although to be fair, he also bought a few boxes of matches too. Still. Bloody expensive!
PROOF OF PASTA
I'm very impressed with @cofeecafe and his personal hygiene because despite the horrendous cost of $14.33HBD, he's happy to spend this on one little bar of soap! This was at the very, obviously upmarket, Eka Mimi provision store, as shown in this post.
Another clue that Eka Mimi Provision store is very posh comes from @chefolivah who spent $10.00 HBD on a bog roll, a sachet of Cadburys hot chocolate and a loaf of bread. Incredible! No wonder she created a review which you can read here
At least it's baby soft! and after blowing all that cash can sing; 'Cup hands, here comes Cadburys'
Can you bloody well believe it, @chefolivah also likes the same brand of pasta!
This time, combined with three sachets of hot chocolate got robbed to the tune of $9.93HBD!
I just did a bit of maths and found @lionsbane had spent over $100HBD on groceries in the last 7 days! Obviously not short of a bob or two! They even spent ... come on, have a guess on the cost of these veggies
...hands-up if you guessed $10.35HBD ?
This fella is healthy and wealthy. A keeper, ladies! This was at Juliet Nnenna Foodstuffs & Provision and there's no mention of whether they were organic or not. I'd hope so at that price.
@lionsbane, also seems to love bitter lemon and corn snacks, they bought the same items twice with an hour at the weekend... first time spending $9.73 and then an hour later again spending $9.73 on a bottle of soda and two packets of snacks. At least the prices hadn't gone up between visits!
Shopping must be a full time occupation for these guys as they haven't had time to follow anyone or engage with anyone else on Hive yet.
Last one, from Judel Supermarket again but this time a user called @preciouz-01, a bottle of Soda and a chocolate biscuit, $6.757HBD.
As I have no life, I actually looked up the cost of these two items on a Nigerian grocery delivery website and they came to 3000Naira, just over $1 USD.
Don't worry though. If the shoppers add a 60% pay-out to @distriator.bene , they will get a really nice vote on their 20-word, two-picture 'review' as well as getting 25% of their spend given back to them directly to their accounts.
Encouraging everyone to use and spend their Hive is the most important project out there I have been told, which it may or may not be, but it seriously looks like a few people are taking the proverbial piss which is very sad considering the amount of effort the creators of this project have put into it. Currently, a quick glance at the website suggests they have 486 businesses signed up! That is seriously impressive work by anyone's standards and I genuinely wish them every success. I do wonder what would happen if the stabiliser system for pegging HBD at $1 USD became broken or lost its funding...
Please note, that these are just a few users of the project. The vast majority of the shops, especially in Venezuela where the project was initially rolled out, charge more reasonable prices for their groceries.
Draw your own conclusions, take a look at the @distriator project at https://distriator.com/ and the #spendhbd community and let me know in the comments what you think. Comment rewarder has been activated!
Newsflash One 350g carton of milk - over $10HBD!
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