Tanzania: A company deploys door-to-door services for food

By Paul Owere

Dar es Salaam – Dar es Salaam is the commercial capital of Tanzania, with an estimated population of about six million.

This population must be nurtured to remain productive.

However, buying groceries in a city like Dar es Salaam can sometimes become a nightmare because of the kind of hbadle you have to go through.

In most cases, you have to spend a whole day shopping because not everything

The situation worsens during the rainy season, because in some markets the Infrastructure is poor and the threat of communicable diseases is high.

Nikuze Food Products is expected to launch new service in Dar es Salaam this month to make grocery shopping as easy as possible. Nikuze Food Products General Manager James Kuyangana told BusinessWeek that the company is ready to deliver vegetables, fruit and other food items to Dar es Salaam.

"Our services are tailored to each customer's needs and we"

The pilot project has been successful as the company serves three five-star hotels in Dar es Salaam for four years. experience we have gained at this level tells us that we are ready to deploy this project in the rest of the city to save the laboring people in particular the city's hbadle, "he says. same quality of groceries at competitive prices to save them the hbadle of price fluctuations that are the norm in many outlets in the city. "

The question is how to ensure the availability of products according to Mr. Kuyangana, the company has signed supply agreements with several farmers across the country who will supply the products throughout the year, even during the low season, when items such as L Green vegetables tend to become scarce.

"Tanzania is such a diverse country with different types of climatic conditions in different regions, so there is no way that the whole country lacks the products listed in our catalog" says Kuyangana

Army of A modern food store and storage facilities in Kinondoni, the company also owns its own gardens.

"With our well-trained staff working day and night, we are now ready to give Dar es Salaam his" 1965-31. According to him, from the moment a customer fills out the order form available online, on nikuze.com, it takes 30 minutes and one hour for delivery to the customer's door.

In a population increasingly concerned about the environment, the company also takes into account the type of packaging materials.

"We made it a policy that we will use packaging materials that will not spoil our environment, instead we will choose eco-friendly bags to deliver our products."