Your Wedding Catering: Soft Drink Alert

We made visits to a number of outlets in Harare and we thought we should issue a soft drink alert. It looks like soft drinks MIGHT run out in the next few weeks. Other concentrated drinks are already off the shelves in many places and this will put pressure on the soft drinks/fizzy drinks like Coca Cola. So we advise a quick reaction to the situation if your wedding is within range. The situation is made worse by the GENERAL wait-and -see attitude that many suppliers and retailers have adopted since 29th March 2008.

Out of a scale of 10 [10 being worst case scenario] we rank the situation at 6.

To Your Special Day!

UPDATE: 22.04.08 - Most retailers require empty bottles for your soft drinks. They are not charging deposits as usual. In fact most outlets have notices - No Empty No Drink! According to The Herald of today "The group [DELTA] finally got a review on soft drink prices with the retail price for a 300ml bottle increased to $25 million [USD0.25]. Delta was reportedly shutting down production as a result of the sub-economic prices prevailing then".