Some Ghanaians have spoken against the expected increase in price of sachet water from today November 12, 2018.
According to them, the increase the price of a bag of sachet water will only add on to the already high cost of living in the country.
The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPAWAP) last week announced that prices of sachet water will go up effective today.
Explaining the reason for the increase, the association said the decision is due to increase in the cost of production.
A bag of sachet water popular called pure water is therefore now expected to be purchased by all the trucks and depots at GHC3.50 pesewas.
The figure is a jump from the GHC2.50 pesewas and sometimes GHC3 that retailers have been purchasing in the past.
A retailer at the Adabraka Market in Accra told Citi Business News she expects to buy a bag of sachet water from 4 cedis since she was previously buying it for GHC3.5
“The new prices are a bit high, but someone like me who currently buys the bag for GHC 3.50 from my supplier at the moment and also buys blocks I expect to get the bag for GHC4”.
“So I can’t go and get a bag for GHC 4 and sell it for GHC0.20 pesewes. It is very frustrating that they have increased the prices which will force us to also increase our price. It is very frustrating because buying a sachet of water for GHC0.30 pesewas is a bit difficult, but if they increase it then we will also increase ours because we buy blocks to cool the water,” she said.
Another retailer, Abdul Malik told Citi Business News shop owners have no option than to increase the cost of scahet water to pass it on to consumers.
Source: citibusinessnews.com