Load shedding costs Pick n Pay R60 million a month – the ‘permanent new reality’

[BusinessTech]

Load shedding costs Pick n Pay R60 million a month – the ‘permanent new reality’

Pick n Pay is spending around R2 million a day keeping the lights on.

 

[Madhawk]

Then you wonder why groceries cost more every week.

 

[backstreetboy]

and it is spending R60 million a month running diesel generators to keep the lights on.

You can buy zillions of solar panels and batteries with that.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Then you wonder why groceries cost more every week.

Strange isnt it...almost like there is a correlation..
Like failure and ANC...

 

[WollieVerstege]

Then you wonder why groceries cost more every week.

And then up goes inflation and SARB responds with interest rate hikes, thinking somehow doing that is going to make things better.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

You can buy zillions of solar panels and batteries with that.

Not always possible if you don't own the shopping centre itself, which is mostly the case.

 

[rvZA]

Scale down. Retrench staff. Close some branches. Will make up for the losses and please investors too as additional funds will be freed up for them. But even more importantly, start focusing on opening more businesses abroad. Eventually all businesses will go belly up in SA.

 

[MrGray]

For this to be sustainable they ned to be spending that money on solar and battery instead of diesel, which should only be a stop gap. But I'm sure they know that.

At least after the initial capital outlays on solar the spend on diesel generators should drop. I imagine a huge logistical issue is getting co-operation from all the landlords and other tenants in malls etc.

 

[backstreetboy]

Not always possible if you don't own the shopping centre itself, which is mostly the case.

I'm sure they're the tentpole of the shopping malls they're in.

Scale down. Retrench staff. Close some branches. Will make up for the losses and please investors too as additional funds will be freed up for them. But even more importantly, start focusing on opening more businesses abroad. Eventually all businesses will go belly up in SA.

Speaking bollocks as usual. People need food. Unless you live on all the crap you speak.

 

[ShaunSA]

I can't remember PnP complaining when everything was getting ****ed up?

Did their grim letter get lost in the post?

 

[Dan C]

For this to be sustainable they ned to be spending that money on solar and battery instead of diesel, which should only be a stop gap. But I'm sure they know that.

At least after the initial capital outlays on solar the spend on diesel generators should drop. I imagine a huge logistical issue is getting co-operation from all the landlords and other tenants in malls etc.

And where do you think they are going put these solar panels and batteries ?

 

[Fulcrum29]

You can buy zillions of solar panels and batteries with that.

They do have an energy strategy which was rolled out years ago already in partnership with Energy Partners.

Article dated 2019,

Pick n Pay reduces energy intensity by more than a third

Pick n Pay has managed to reduce its energy intensity per square metre by 36.9% through both improvements in technology and behavioural change.

www.bizcommunity.com

 

[rvZA]

I'm sure they're the tentpole of the shopping malls they're in.

Speaking bollocks as usual. People need food. Unless you live on all the crap you speak.

Just because people NEED food, does not mean they will always get it. I refer you to collapsed African countries and places like Venezuela. Just because you still have the silver spoon in the mouth here in SA, does not mean you will have it forever. All good things eventually comes to an end and the West will eventually come drop the food parcels the people need. This is but one of the risks people face with a corrupt and dangerous government.

 

[backstreetboy]

Just because people NEED food, does not mean they will always get it. I refer you to collapsed African countries and places like Venezuela. Just because you still have the silver spoon in the mouth here in SA, does not mean you will have it forever. All good things eventually comes to an end and the West will eventually come drop the food parcels the people need. This is but one of the risks people face with a corrupt and dangerous government.

Lol yeah sure chicken little.

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

Lol yeah sure chicken little.

He has a point. People needing food is not the same as people getting the food.

 

[rvZA]

Lol yeah sure chicken little.

It happened elsewhere in the world before and the same will happen here in SA. This is evident already.

 

[backstreetboy]

He has a point. People needing food is not the same as people getting the food.

No he doesn't. The Chinese would've taken over long before that happens.

 

[backstreetboy]

It happened elsewhere in the world before and the same will happen here in SA. This is evident already.

In your head sure.

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

No he doesn't. The Chinese would've taken over long before that happens.

Many people in SA already struggle to have food and China is still wise enough not to touch SA with 1000km pole.

 

[rvZA]

Many people in SA already struggle to have food and China is still wise enough not to touch SA with 1000km pole.

He is one of the cronies who still lives the high life. He does not see or know about the real struggles South Africans are facing.