No, there’s no surprise at all that such a shop exists in a kleptocracy like Zimbabwe:
Robert Mugabe’s local supermarket is unlike any other
shop in Zimbabwe. Elsewhere there are gaping empty shelves where bread,
butter, sugar, meat and the staple maize meal should be.
But
at the Spar in the Borrowdale Brooke suburb of the capital Harare,
close to the president’s palatial hillside residence, almost anything
is available, including focaccia bread, sun-dried tomatoes and cigars.
There’s just a slight surprise to English eyes of seeing the most luxurious shop in the country called "Spar". Given the position the same name occupies in the English food chain (sorry) it’s akin to finding the local greasy spoon calling itself Fortnum and Masons.
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