THE SHOPPING GAME : 16Th July 2020, My Mini Shopping Grocery

Hello, today is Thursday 16th July 2020. It is the main market day where all villages around come with their goods such as maize, rice, beans, yam, fowls, Guinea fowls, okro garden eggs, groundnut, soya beans, cabbage, carrots, palm oil, avocado, and all kinds of food that you can think of. Since last 3 weeks, the market had been very poor and bored due to the law Assembly passed not to allow anyone to sell or buy in the market. This is prevent further spread of Covid - 19 pandemic from the District. But this still raises a question to the people in this area that, what will they survive on if they don't sell or buy during this Thursday market? Because, most of these villagers are eating from hand to mouth, some only get money but selling a fowl, goat or guinea. It's really very hard for that peasant farm at his village to get bulk money to purchase salt or soap if he doesn't sell. Their hopes are in this Thursday market. Aside this, they have bad roads to even convey their goods to market especially at this season of heavy rain fall.

I see this situation of disallowing people to market on Thursdays to have been solved if they decide to spread the sellers all over some vantage places in town. This will prevent the crowds being converged at one area which would be a threat of Covid - 19 infection. But today when I moved out to make some mini grocery shopping, the market was bored, only few sellers were spread around corners to sell. Even they were hidden, since they were not allowed to make selling of their goods. This has led items become very expensive to buy. Only 3 tubers of yam was sold for Ghc 20.00/ $3.4 dollars/ $23.6 Steem. I had to buy at the price, at ordinary days you can get some to buy. This is very expensive for me, because last time I bought some I had 4 tubers.

I don't have palm oil I needed to half bottle. I normally buy 5 litres normal oil and palm oil as in this display, but there were not enough here, they are only measuring in bottles. But at larger supper market stores you will get even 10 to 20 litres.

The half bottle of the palm oil cost Ghc3.00 only / $0.51 dollars/ $3.54 Steem. This is to used for some few days so that I get larger litres bottle to buy. I could have bought larger litres but I was afraid of it being low quality.

I bought some few vegetables like onion and kontomire for Ghc 5.00 / $0.85 dollars/ $5.9 Steem. These vegetables are good for our health, they boost our immune systems to fight against Covid - 19. I went further through some corner on the road side, where one of my seller of corn and cassava dough is located. I bought everything to sum up to Gh c 5.00/ 0.85 dollars/ $5.9 Steem. I always buy this food because it's very economical and nutritious to my health status. Even the corn dough can be used as porridge, when you add sugar and you get your slide bread. Maize has so many uses.

Because most of these items were sold from these small table sellers at the corners of the road side, I could exactly give the direction of where they can be found, they are even scattered. No receipt were given too.

I brought all these items in the house and kept them in my store room as you can see in the display here.

Summary of the cost of items in Ghana cedis, US Dollars & Steem:

The yam, palm oil, onion, kontomire, corn & cassava dough all cost = Ghc 33.00/ $5.61 Dollars/ $38.94 Steem.

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