"Coronavirus: Clean Shelf supermarket suspends employee for adjusting sanitiser prices"

Clean Shelf supermarket has blamed one of its staff members for the adjustment of prices on the Tropikal hand sanitisers at their Ruaka Branch. Panicky Kenyans rushed to supermarkets across the country and cleared sanitisers from the shelves as soon as the government announced the first Coronavirus patient in the country on Friday.

“It has come to our attention that one of our staff members without consultation and irresponsibly severally adjusted the price of Tropikal hand sanitisers in our Ruaka Branch,” the statement on their twitter handle read in part. The supermarket termed it as an individual error and asked those who purchased the product at the hiked price to visit their Ruaka branch for a full refund. The statement further indicated that disciplinary action has already been taken against the unnamed employee.