Fish and pork remain as unpopular as ever in Zimbabwe. The hike in beef prices to astronomic levels did not change that. People just rushed into the welcoming arms of chicken. This is not helped by the fact that pork prices are also higher than those of chicken.

Most supermarkets only stock these products in limited quantities we have noticed. Also while horse mackerel, imported from Walvis Bay, used to be popular it has been conspicuously absent in most shops over the past 12 months or so.

Fish prices as at 12 October 2019

Item	OK	FoodWorld	Choppies	TM
Fresh Kapenta 200g	13.49
Fresh Kapenta 400g	21.90
Kariba Bream kg	31.39
Breams		34.89		43.99
Bream Cuts		62.68	35.50
Lake Harvest Bream	37.69	37.20	39.50	55.99
Mackerel
Tilapia 500g

Pork prices as at 12 October 2019

Item	OK	FoodWorld	Choppies	TM
Belly
Bones	43.90	45.27
Burger	88.90
Chops	72.50	69.56	72.00	79.99
Heels
Head		43.52	65.00	28.99
Lemon and Herb
Leg		63.26
Leg Roast
Loins
Mince
Sausage		64.54
Shoulder		63.26
Skins
Texan Chop				29.99
Trotters	43.90			53.99

NB

The price shown on that pork box from TM Pick N Pay is from August. That is like a millennium in our hyperinflationary world. Don’t expect to pay that in any shop.
Look at the price differences between pork head in TM and Choppies shops, it underlines the madness that is going on in our economy