Consumers worried as shops reject plastic money, want hard cash for cooking oil, rice

Consumers are worried about an imminent shortage of basic commodities as retailers are now rejecting electronic money and are demanding  hard cash for goods like cooking oil and rice.

Retailers like Choppies, Food World and Mohammed Mussa among others are claiming that the manufacturers are not accepting electronic money, hence they cannot accept it  as well.

Retailers are attaching notices which read: