Nakumatt Stock was on Tuesday looted after the supermarket was evicted from Nanyuki Mall.
Residents from the area scrambled for the supermarket's items which had been thrown out forcing police to shoot in the air to disperse the looters.
Reports in the Standard Digital indicate thatNakumatt was evicted over rent arrears amounting to Sh36 million.
The Nanyuki mall branch is the latest Nakumatt outlet to be shut down.
Last month, one of Nakumatt's famous outlets - Nakumatt Lifestyle - in Nairobi's Central Business District was shut down after the retailer was evicted from its premises.
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The landlord of the premise complained that the supermarket had defaulted on rent for a while leading to this extreme measure.
The supermarket located along Monrovia Street was one of Nairobi's 'cool joints' during its glory days but suffered tremendous losses over the years leading to its closure.
In October, Nakumatt shut down its Westgate Mall located in Westlands Nairobi, which was the fourth key branch to be closed down in less than three months.
Earlier this year, the retailer shut its Ronald Ngala branch citing low sales and a branch in Uganda that had accumulated rent arrears estimated at about Sh8.5 Million.
It also shut down one of its two warehouses – where it stored imported goods as well as furniture and electronics on Mombasa Road.
In May, Nakumatt publicly announced plans to close its poorly performing branches in Kenya and Uganda as part of cost-cutting measures aimed at saving the retailer Sh1.5 Billion annually.
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The announcement saw the Haile Selassie branch located at the Kenyatta University Plaza closed down.
In August, the retailer shut down its Thika Road Mall (TRM) branch, barely a month after closing its outlet at the NextGen Mall on Mombasa Road.
