THE STANDARD By Dominic Omondi | February 2nd 2021 at 07:39:40 GMT +0300 A weak shilling and a host of disruptive factors in some of the country’s key source markets have led to a spike in retail prices. [Standard, file] What started as a rumour of a sharp increase in the prices of cooking oil quickly turned into a protest, as the kitchen crisis worsened. As expected, most shoppers were incensed by the “greedy” retailers. No one blamed the market. Perhaps because the market is abstract and distant. Few Kenyans care about what is “cooking” in the swathes of palm oil plantations in the two islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Asia. They only care for what is cooking in their kitchen.