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...
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...
South Africa’s second-biggest supermarket retailer, Spar Group, plans to open premium and discount grocery stores while also entering new niche retail markets, its chief executive Angelo Swartz said on Thursday.
They are also moving into new non-food markets by opening standalone stores for...
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...
Capitec Connect says it has the cheapest data on the market — we test its claim
Capitec has released its results for the financial year ended 28 February 2023 and claimed in its annual report that its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) “arguably” has the cheapest data on the market.
A...
Shoprite's K'nect Mobile slashes prepaid data prices — 1GB for R19.50
Shoprite's mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), K'nect Mobile, has reduced the prices of its data bundles by over 35%, meaning it now offers some of the lowest prepaid data rates in the country.
One of the standout...
South Africa's new normal — permanent power cuts
South African companies are facing what retailer Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. has just called “a permanent new reality” — electricity shortages. The related costs are weighing heavily.
During a year that’s seen the worst national power cuts on record...
Checkers rolls out first fully electric truck — and it glows in the dark
Shoprite Group says it is the first retailer in the country to pilot a heavy-duty fully-electric truck in its fleet.
The Checkers Hyper-branded Scania Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) boasts nine batteries and solar panels...
South African companies betting big on private power — including electricity from cow dung
South African businesses are investing billions into self-generating power capacity to combat the impact of load-shedding on their operations and reduce their carbon footprint.
In the last few months...
Afrihost Air Mobile and Capitec Connect cheaper than FNB and Mr Price Mobile
Afrihost Air Mobile and Capitec Connect offer the lowest data prices in a MyBroadband analysis of eight mobile virtual network operators.
Various retailers, Internet service providers, and retailers in South Africa...
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Shoprite invests in privacy protection startup after customer data hack
South African grocery giant Shoprite Group has announced it is investing in secure data collaboration platform Omnisient, only a few months after it suffered a hack that led to the auction of customers' personal information...
South Africa's retail CEO salaries compared to shareholder returns
Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Leon Saltzman achieved the best shareholder returns for every rand earned, while Pick n Pay CEO Pieter Boone performed the worst.
Executive compensation has been a hotly debated issue for many years. Workers...
Pick n Pay and Takealot taking the fight to Checkers Sixty60
Pick n Pay and Shoprite's battle for customers looks poised to intensify as the South African grocery giants rapidly expand their on-demand delivery services.
Pick n Pay published its interim results for the 26 weeks ending 28 August...
Taking the fight to Takealot
South Africa’s top brick-and-mortar retailers, including Shoprite, Woolworths, and Massmart, are improving their ecommerce capabilities to become bigger online shopping players.
Takealot is South Africa’s largest ecommerce company, with a gross merchandise value...
Mobile virtual network operator boom in South Africa
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) offer alternatives to dealing with larger carriers like Vodacom and MTN while still using the bigger networks' excellent infrastructure to provide subscribers with coverage.
Several South African...
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TFG launches mobile operator — here's how its data prices compare
The Foschini Group (TFG) has launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) — TFG Connect — that will compete with other MVNOs, including Mr Price Mobile, Afrihost Air Mobile, and PnP Mobile.
TFG Connect will use MTN's...
ID documents and contact details exposed in Vodacom fibre reseller data breach
Vodacom has warned customers who took up Vodacom Fibre subscriptions through marketing agency Real Promotions that a data breach has compromised their personal data.
In an email sent to affected customers on...
Massmart reports billion-rand loss
Massmart expects to post a R1.05-billion to R1.16-billion loss for the 26-week period that ended on 26 June 2022.
This represents a year-on-year change ranging from a 3.5% improvement to a 6.5% decline.
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...
Shoprite customer data is being auctioned on the dark web
Customer data stolen from Africa’s largest supermarket chain is being auctioned by dark web extortion market RansomHouse, with bidding open at 20 bitcoin (R6.7 million).
Shoprite fell victim to the cyber extortion gang earlier this...