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Stop Shoprite From Doing Money Transfer And Save Jobs In ZAMPOST
By Chilufya Tayali
Much as we appreciate the liberalized economy, Zambians should come first. There is nothing like absolute liberalism.
Companies like ZAMPOST which has a lot of workers and has served this Country for a long time need to be protected from harsh competition government.
Shoprite came to Zambia with a specific line of business why are we giving them more business which can be done by Zambians. Shoprite being a foreign company it is obvious that its profits are being externalises which has a negative impact on our foreign exchange among other retrogressive effects.
Furthermore it is not a secret that Shoprite does not pay its workers meaningful salaries compared to companies like ZAMPOST, therefore they can afford to charge low commissions or prices. Of course this saves the consumer but it does not promote local investment growth.
If local investment is encouraged, the future is secured once those companies develop. Therefore it is better to help companies like ZAMPOST to keep jobs and secure the future.
Bank of Zambia should immediately withdraw the license from Shoprite involving money transmission. It is not in interest of the Zambian public that Shoprite should continue in this business. There are many Zambians that can run such businesses particularly ZAMPOST.
Posted by
Brainy
December 25, 2015 at 2:26 am
Zampost failed to help themselves like most parastatal companies in Zambia. First they failed to expand and reduce the cost of doing business over they years. As this was not enoughtthey were inefficient. This is the price you pay in a liberalised economy if managers are not visionaries. So we should not subzidise their imcompetence any further. They have had share of the market long before shoprite or zoona. How then can they cry today. They should have grown to be a giant that can not be easily swept aside. But they were just chewing money meant for reinvestment. This is the same thing happening in other companies like natsave zesco etc.
Zampostlamp
December 25, 2015 at 9:58 am
ZAMPOST is not remitting premium to PICZ. Soon it will choke PICZ with nkongole as it did National Savings and Credit Bank in 80s. ZAMPOST is better of privatized.Every Post Office shall be run by private businessmen.
kasantaa
December 25, 2015 at 3:12 am
Bamo tamulala ba Brainy zoona
Air Mukwai_
December 25, 2015 at 4:23 am
Tayali Tayali Tayali uleikalafye if you’ve nothing tangible to talk about.
Let people choose where charges are reasonable to send money. For instance sending K2000 between provinces ZAMPOST charges K40 while SHOPRITE charges only K6. Secondly, SHOPRITE won’t tell clients to wait in the afternoon or come the following day to collect money as the case with ZAMPOST.
Thirdly, local companies exploit common man and suck him the little money he has. When Given Lubinda banned importation of oils. Local companies were happy and guess what? Within a week a 2litre cooking oil shot from K47 to K105. Given apologised to Zambian people that he was cheated and allowed importation of oil from SA and the price of 2litre cooking oil is now K45.
In addition, the price of a pocket of cement was K90 before Dagota came. Now the price of cement is K55 and the same called local companies wanted to pollute his mind and he refused and they have gone as well to his perked price.
Umwina Nkana
December 25, 2015 at 7:54 am
AMEN!
GIFT
December 25, 2015 at 9:45 am
TELL THEM
Air Mukwai_
December 26, 2015 at 10:34 am
I thought this chap Tayali fimofimo talks for the voiceless but the way he has come out it rings bells that he talks for the loudest voices.
ImBeautifulAndILikeIt
December 26, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Preach to the choir. Now you’re talking sense.
Patrick
December 25, 2015 at 4:50 am
The maim problem of zambian companies is that they do not respect the customers,they will keep you waiting for hours without attending to you and busy doing nothing,they do not mind that that is the same person bring money for them to be paid.can we learn to save,then we will the companies runing.
sangwapo
December 25, 2015 at 5:02 am
i fail to understand why our local products sell at higher prince compared to foreign goods. what matters in business is the rate of stock turnover. if you count people found in shop rite sending / receiving money by k6.00 and then compare zampost customers by k40.00 you will see that shop rite is making more money than zampost.
i agree with tayali to save local companies but before we do that let those companies help themselves and they should milk we the customers in the way they do.
so for example if you ask chilanga cement why cement was too high before dagote, they will tell you cost of production was too high now has it gone down today? no in fact this is the time they should increase because zesco has doubled the tariffs.
talk of fuel globally it has gone down but back home still high. so what is wrong with this country?
mubanga peter
December 25, 2015 at 5:19 am
Zampost my foot
kayula
December 25, 2015 at 5:55 am
If Zambian treated every person the way we have treated Zampost Zambia will be the best country. If Zambia is to develop we need to change our attitude those who cant we retire them. Ww have kept alot of incompetences in our govt instituitions. THE CULTURE OF SAYING ITS MONEY THAT HAS BROT ME HERE IS KILLING OUR COUNTRY. LETS WORK THEN MONEY
kayula
December 25, 2015 at 6:03 am
Minister of transport and communications should not be quick to ban shoprt but let Zampost tell us what they have learnt from from shoprt. In other words Zampost should tell us why pipo are preferring shoprt to them.
Temani
December 25, 2015 at 6:05 am
Zampost jobs can’t be saved by killing competition. Shoprite has the right to participate in the money transfer business just like many other players. Shoprite pays workers according to the monies the business generates not exaggerated wages which Tayalis Zampost can’t generate. First remove PF cadres from management and employ the right people to manage your Zampost. Maybe courier firms such as DHL must as well go for Zampost nobs to,saved
Ndanje kakhs
December 25, 2015 at 6:13 am
Temani this has nothing to do with pf. Be real
Ndanje kakhs
December 25, 2015 at 6:11 am
My interest is to get quality service. Those who want to save there jobs should do this by offering good service!
Onyx power @vampiros
December 25, 2015 at 6:22 am
Is money transfers core business for zampost?
Judge Joe Bidden
December 25, 2015 at 7:01 am
Competition is healthy in any business environment zampost should ask themselves why there is a charge difference between them and shoprite of about K34.00? That should bring out the best in them and stop crying like beaches. Shoprite definitely show a gap a loophole in that service and capitalised on that, so that thing of saving jobs for Zambians nonsense should go to hell. Learn to give good quality services then you attract more customers. If your Govt can’t give you jobs stop getting it from your competitors.
kakolwe
December 25, 2015 at 3:28 pm
@JJB, just tell this kaTayali thing to revert to sending letters, telegrams via Zampost instead in e-mails. That way he will definitely save jobs in Zamtel.
Tayali’s assertion of killing some investments in a bid to save local investment is a stupid assertion. Why? Has he not seen Zamtel linking up with Japanese used scrap motor sellers! Zampost does not charge hefty transfer fees as charged by Banks. Is he going to ask govt to stop Zamtel from ordering vehicles?
Chapuba politically as well as economically!
The Spartacus
December 25, 2015 at 7:06 am
Tayali a big mouth @ it again. Since when did this chap became zampost spokesperson.. Th onus lies with zampost either to improve on service delivery or face closure of th company. Ulikapuba u want th majority zambians to suffer @ th expense of ones inefficiency..
observer
December 25, 2015 at 7:31 am
Zambian owned campanies must be proactive and enovative enough to improve the capacity of their businesses and avoid exploiting customers.
MKK
December 25, 2015 at 7:38 am
This is a short mind. It is like when you are in the foreign land within Zambian and settle business there. Because you are progressive as a result of understanding people’s minds and needs your business grows, and the locals rise against you, accuse you and proposals to stop you doing whatever you are doing because you come from a different land and people (you are not the local), without realising how much you are alleviating their problems. It seems in Zambia today, every business that starts meeting people’s needs has to be closed: (making and selling building blocks, rearing and selling chickens, etc) because the owner is not local. Every business should grow and expand (diversifying), looking at the demands and needs of people. Zambians need to be competitive and have a progressive mind.It was very expensive to do business of money transfer with Zampost and indeed Shoprite saw the weakness and captalised on it. Can’t Zambians see weaknesses on foreign investors and rise to heights by capitalising on the same as investors are doing on our local market. Any business should aim at helping people and not taking advantage of their vulnerability otherwise it will collapse when it faces a challenge. My advice to Tayali is: establish a similar business counter reacting to shoprite and make shoprite feel it as Zampost has felt it.
MWANANSOKA EDSON
December 25, 2015 at 9:23 am
I agree with you. Even these small companies tuntemba Zona etc should be closed. We need to save our own Zambian Company Zampost
kakolwe
December 25, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Forfakset!!!
Think.
Do you want to close Zampost because the local car dealers no longer order used cars for dull chaps like you?
kasongo Wabaluba
December 25, 2015 at 8:01 pm
MKK is absolutely right. ZAMPOST need to think of ways to make themselves attractive rather than eliminating other players. I am not an Economist but I understand that you can make services cheap but the number of clients you have will give you a compettitive edge over your foes in business…simple.
That is liberalization. if you stop Shoprite it means those employed for that purpose whoare also Zambians will lose their jobs. Whats your take on this one?
osward wiza simukoko
December 25, 2015 at 9:25 am
Zampost should feel it too pipo were buying vehicles for resala zampost jumped. in the poor car dearer was left with no businesse go forward shoprite let pipo choose wats good for them
Fisheagle
December 25, 2015 at 9:35 am
Zampost has an advantage over Shoprite;it has a foot print which Shoprite hasn’t got at the moment.
Tayali,please tell Zampost to reduce their to shoprite’s charges or lower so that they compete favorably with Shoprite.
Tayali and Zampost,please go back to the drawing board. Why sholud a local company charge more than a foreign company?
I thought that Shoprite shares are liste on LUSE, so Zambian with shares in Shoprite should be happy with the performance of their company.
Baloteli Senior
December 25, 2015 at 10:37 am
Tayali competition is good
Advocate
December 25, 2015 at 10:53 am
It is unthinkable to suggest that some competitors should be barred from conducting same business in a liberalized economy. One may ask as to why most if not all zambian owned companies are too expensive compared to foreign owned ones.This is what begs an answer than prevention to trade.Local businesses face stiff competition due to myriad of reasons, starting from the cost of doing business to numerous levies paid to local councils and ZRA.It seems the aim of government is to prohibit zambians to engage in any business. Imagine fertilizer imported from the middle East to be cheaper than that manufactured in Chilanga can one explain this puzzle .A bag of maize from Brazil to be cheaper than from your backyard, does that make sense.
Advocate
December 25, 2015 at 11:03 am
This Tayali magwam has joined the likes of Kambwili, Shamenda, Sunday Chanda, Frank Bwalya and the entire heap of PF aimless barking jackals.They are ever disjointed and hugely overdosed with illusions. What a wastage of birth canals have these been.
kakolwe
December 25, 2015 at 3:46 pm
Wechipumbu chanama yabula backbone!!
Are you not seeing that this Tayali bark is as good as hakainde’s Jerabo yap??
Shut your teeth bag if you got no wisdom to puke. Konto!
stanly
December 25, 2015 at 11:22 am
tatayali is yo wife a worker of zampost??y complaining if u know that zambia has a liberalised economy…shut up
Watchtower
December 25, 2015 at 12:17 pm
Zampost money transfer software owners are based outside zambia,cyprus to be specific and zampost only operates their system on commission basis,hence the high charges being charged by them.Tayali do some research plse instead of just yapping like a rabid dog.
Brainy
December 25, 2015 at 12:48 pm
From a limited sample of comments, I surmise that zampost is guilty of its own murder(sucide). They failed to protect a business niche and instead they chose to abuse it (unrasonable charges, inefficiency etc). One would have I thought that they should have been the first ones to have seen the yawning market potential in this and expanded to remote areas by the same vicious modus operandi used by,say ,zoona.In this way,their overall competitive advantage could have remained intact(that is profit margins would been high and could thus afford to reduce costs). But this is something that comes down to vision- strategic plans. How many local businesses have this in their long term plans?
Well that’s hindsight. And spilt milk. So what’s the way forward? It’s no bed of roses. It requires an aggressive approach of re-reclaiming the lost market and identifying market niches as opposed to stifling competition. Can they take advantage of their infrastructure and remnant economy of scales to sweep away shoprite, zoona etc by also establishing tutemba in remote areas? And guess what? And Reduce the charges to K3! I bet this is too demanding of them and so they will remain crying big babies. Just opting the easy way of seeking for government intervention!
gwamo
December 25, 2015 at 1:18 pm
i have seen the worst inefficiency in zampost over the years of their existence. they do not attach seriousness to their work. They need competitors to make them change from the current inefficiency. they have chosen to become agents of many other businesses instead of being inventive. with this attitude what will stop them from being agents of shoprite money moving business?
dudu
December 25, 2015 at 2:15 pm
When it was PTC the Post office was hiding behind Telecom.
chabala
December 25, 2015 at 2:38 pm
mr tayali,you are madg!
Common Man
December 25, 2015 at 3:00 pm
In this Era we are living.One needs to be cost sensitive and efficient.Thats why we need leaders who are visionary so that the prices of goods and services come down.That was the idea of liberalizing the economy.People to accumulate wealth through affordable production and saving.So simple “Do away with expensive Zampost “.Tayali is always protecting his interest not that of a suffering ordinary Zambian who is dying from the current hash economy.
magnum-point38s
December 25, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Zampost should innovate around its core business. Instead of competing with Shoprite they must learn to co-operate. Zampost has a larger presence than Shoprite. Zampost should engage chain-stores like Shoprite, Game, Pick ‘n’ Pay and Spar to offer catalogue order services to all-over the country.
People should be able to walk to their nearest post office, pick the relevant brochure, choose the required products, pay and return 12 to 24 hours later to pick their delivery. This is a Win-Win scenerio. In a few months zampost would be advertising for more staff.
We are tired of this CNP mentality that Tayali and others are using to mess-up our economy.
PUNDIT
December 25, 2015 at 3:22 pm
Tayali its either you rush to the bush or chainama,choose one. Zampost has failed to serve the people of this country.
chimalinso
December 25, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Ba Tayali, mwatusebanya, people who have been to school to think like tht; even my 8 years daugtphtet thinking can’t be low as this, umfweni in a liberalised economy things dnt work like tht, its free narket and all it takes is 3 e’s ; economy, effecient and effevtive approach, above all INOVATIVE ideas, chapwa and happy christmas Tayali and your family,
Big Nose
December 25, 2015 at 8:55 pm
kabwili will you that it’s global even in southafrica they are charging the same k40
Muso
December 26, 2015 at 5:03 am
The likes of Tayali wont do any good to Zambia. The Govt should have no business in business. Let the experts (read private sector) do their thing.
Manda
December 26, 2015 at 5:10 am
What a wasted sperm this Tayali! We should greatly symphathise with a woman that carried this imbecile for nine months.
Wanyafye Tigers FC
December 26, 2015 at 8:57 am
This Twayali man is a fool.
Let him write to Toyota and others – STOP MAKING FUEL INJECTION VEHICLES AND SAVE JOBS FOR CARBURETOR MECHANICS.
The World is always changing. Like a croc, adapt to survive longer.
lesleysue
December 26, 2015 at 9:00 am
zampost will always complain if it won’t change its management system or so to say marketing systems. very fast in complaining on foreign investors. what i have learnt for on these foreign investors is that they really do a good market research before setting up there outlets in any business. they look in to consumer needs and how best they can save consumers without losing out on profits. but with our local they just research on the lines of profits not looking into the needs of cusomters.if Zampost wants to win us back let them look in to our needs change there marketing system and management as a whole becauase a good management system will work wonders in any organisation. let them think of the customers first and forget the high prifits requirements. even with small profits an org can run u first have to win the haerts of consumers for u to get the desired profits.. local is just laka but expensive, foreign is both laka n cheaper with good good customer relations.
Wanyafye Tigers FC
December 26, 2015 at 9:03 am
Mwebantu, your suggestion about Zampost teaming up Shoprite is late. Shoprite money transfer is powered by Stanbic. The bank saw a growing market in money transfer but offered cheaper rates compared to Zoona, MTN, Airtel, BBZ cardless and Kazang on the local scene.
Kazang, Shoprite and Barclays cardless are the cheapest at K6 for any transaction. BBZ is 24hrs service while ZAMPOST workers leave the tills at 1615hrs.
Gift Musemuna
December 26, 2015 at 10:15 am
This is the same like telling airtel, mtn & zamtel to stop the sms service so that people can go back to sending letters thru post office!!
Employ marketers in these institutions pliz who scans the business environment and provide goods n services to customers @ a price which they ar willing 2 pay on time!
Archangel
December 26, 2015 at 11:25 am
nonsense zampost should be innovate and be able to compete effectively with its persived rivals both locally and internationally .Rather than strive to thrive on mercies, they should price their services attractively instead of taking advantage of zambians by over pricing thier services to the disadavantage of the aready over burdened taxpayers.
Manda
December 26, 2015 at 1:27 pm
Tayali suffers from a very common disease in Zambia called “verbal diaorrhea”. It mainly affects those whose immune thinking capacity has been compromised.
Vipuwa vapakisa
December 26, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Zam post must now learn to live with competition. These are no longer the Kaunda days of monopoly
ImBeautifulAndILikeIt
December 26, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Tayali competition I good for the poor commons you claim to be fighting for.
jebo
December 26, 2015 at 7:35 pm
they go to shoprite bcoz it is cheap.