“What we do though is we have five suppliers on one product. So we will have one in Hoedspruit, one in Cape Town, one in Durban, one in PE (Port Elizabeth) ...all over the place and it’s really about spreading the risk. So we as retailers have no other choice, we have to ...
Currently, informal urban markets are the major suppliers of ALVs, and women take the lead in both production and marketing of indigenous vegetables [1]. Where ALVs have been commercialised, middle salespersons purchase the vegetables from rural farmers for resale in urban markets at retail ...