Now, lemme clear you here to understand why goods or price of commodities has not decreased as you may think or may have wished so far;
If Mr. A shipped a container filled a goods or products worth of 40 million Naira at a dollar rate of 1,800, and now as you may have said dollar dropped 900 naira. This person has lost about 900 naira plus his goods and products if he reduces the price of his imported goods, so he or she must sell at a higher price to finished his or her imported products to our country this applicable to any person in country so this is why you have not seen any changes yet, except during their next market when they now buy dollars at 800 or 900 then it would enable them reduce price of their imported goods to suit what our Mr. Presido has effects on all these while.
A capitalist will always be a capitalist, profit is his aim not matter what it may take or who gets negatively affected by virtue of him making that profit.
Okay, here's the shocker question. Why are the so-called businessmen usually in a haste to sell old stocks bought in cheap old rate at a new higher rate but won't agree to sell new stocks at a lower rate when price drops?
In all we have witnessed we all would agree that the high cost of goods in the local market is not greatly a consequence of the high rate of dollar appreciating against the Naira but a function of the businessmen decision to keep price in an uptrend because they making much profit that way instead of allow demand and supply to determine they prices of commodities they are busy manipulating the cost of goods, some even go to the extend of hoarding.
In nutshell, food items does not last in a wayhouse for over 1 year due to their expiration date, this including Canned foods, unlike other products such as building materials clothing's and whatever. From December till date we should be talking about expiration those food stucks or consumables.