shoprite group

  1. pratlou

    Behind Shoprite’s e-commerce pitch for the informal market

    Supermarket giant Shoprite is leveraging its fast-growing e-commerce services to capture vibrant, sprawling informal markets. The group has put in place e-commerce services for its Cash & Carry wholesaler, which delivers to businesses such as spaza shops that buy in bulk. This should make it...
  2. pratlou

    Shoprite’s digital boost for spaza shop owners

    Spaza shops and SMEs can now bulk-buy a wide range of goods at highly competitive prices through a fully automated online system. Thanks to Shoprite’s digital solution for its Cash & Carry stores, free delivery is available within a 50km radius of these businesses. Mark Cotton, head of B2B...
  3. Jan

    Checkers testing Xtra Savings Plus subscription service

    Checkers testing subscription service — With unlimited free Sixty60 deliveries and bonus discounts South African grocery retailer Shoprite Checkers has started testing a paid subscription service that provides additional Xtra Savings and Sixty60 benefits. The membership plan — dubbed Xtra...
  4. Jan

    Competition Tribunal approves sale of certain Massmart stores to Shoprite, with conditions

    Shoprite gets approval to buy stores from Makro and Game owner The Competition Tribunal has approved the Shoprite Group's proposed transaction to buy numerous Massmart-owned wholesalers, supermarkets, and liquor stores, but with extensive conditions. Earlier this year, Shoprite offered...
  5. Jan

    Billionaire Christo Wiese's companies

    All the companies billionaire Christo Wiese owns Christo Wiese is one of South Africa's most acclaimed businessmen, best known for his major successes in the consumer retail market. The 80-year-old Wiese was born in the Northern Cape in 1941 and completed matric at the Paarl Boys High School...
  6. Jan

    Shoprite discloses data breach affecting international money transfer customers

    Shoprite's "possible data compromise" nothing else but data breach — legal expert Shoprite Group's "suspected data compromise" affecting some Money Transfer customers is a data breach by another name, says privacy and technology legal expert Jos Floor. The company announced last week that the...
  7. Jan

    Shoprite Group using machine learning to automatically manage store food stocks

    Checkers using artificial intelligence — here's what it does Shoprite Group has revealed that it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict sales at its stores. Replenishment orders are placed automatically to manage stock levels, simultaneously reducing food waste.
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Shoprite Group to launch its own MVNO to take on Pick n Pay

    Shoprite Group to launch its own MVNO to take on Pick n Pay The Shoprite Group – which operates Africa’s largest network of food stores – plans to launch its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to offer cellular services. This was reportedly revealed by the grocery giant’s CEO Pieter...
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