Area 23 Chipiku Store

Area 23 Chipiku Store is a grocery store of the Chipiku chain in Area 23, Lilongwe, Malawi. The chain is run by Chipiku Stores, a retail and wholesale business. In a member profile published by the Fertilizer Association of Malawi, Chipiku Stores describes itself as one of the larger wholesalers in the country, operating ninety-six stores in all three regions, supplied from three distribution centres and managed through three regional offices. The company says it built its trade on basic goods such as sugar, bread flour, salt, cement and roof sheeting, alongside a wider range that includes soap, housewares, builders' hardware, batteries, bicycles, agricultural inputs, cooking oil, rice, over-the-counter medicines and textiles, and that it serves mainly rural areas. The profile gives the company's address as H.B. House, Chilambula Road, Area 4, Lilongwe. Lilongwe has been Malawi's capital since 1975, when it replaced Zomba, and had 989,318 residents at the 2018 census. The city is divided into numbered Areas, which residents use as addresses and for directions; the numbers were assigned in the order the Areas were laid out rather than by position. Chipiku has not published a telephone number, trading hours or stock list for the Area 23 store online.

XRR8+CP8, Lilongwe, Malawi
Lilongwe

14°0′30″S 33°49′2″E