The Breadwinner blog
What Botswana really pays for groceries.
Measured prices from real receipts: basket tracking, retail mechanics and market analysis, written from the tills up.
How Botswana's grocery retail actually works
Chain supermarkets, wholesalers, independent shops: how stock moves from suppliers to shelves, how prices get set, and why your basket costs what it does.
From slip to insight in seconds
What actually happens when you photograph a receipt in Breadwinner: from the camera to the shelf-price comparison, in plain language.
Why the same item costs different prices in different shops
An identical 2 kg bag of rice can carry three different shelf prices in one city. Here is what drives the gap, and how to check what you actually pay.
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Chain economics, pricing strategy, loyalty schemes, and why the same tin costs different prices.
Real budgets, meal plans, unit pricing and the weekly rhythm of feeding a household.
Price movements, the staples index, and the monthly Basket Watch.
How our comparisons work, and how we handle your receipts and your data.