Pick n Pay becomes collection point for R350 Covid-19 grants

They need to get people to start receiving their grants via a bank account. SASSA does all the verification of a person's ID and address, which means that it would be stupidly easy for a bank to open an account for that person if they had those details.
 
22 September?
Thank you, now I know to avoid that place for my daily shopping
Will go to Checkers tomorrow for my braai food
Yeah as much as this seems like a good deal as the queues outside the Post Office look like a super spreader, many people will come without the SMS and haggle as the tellers. I suspect some security will be employed to check SMS's before entering the store.
 
as if I needed another reason to avoid PNP,
now millions of people standing there, all spreading their germs, and shoplifting and causing chaos,
to get their minuscule R350 grant, that's completely worthless, even if spent very carefully.
 
Yeah as much as this seems like a good deal as the queues outside the Post Office look like a super spreader, many people will come without the SMS and haggle as the tellers. I suspect some security will be employed to check SMS's before entering the store.
Yeah it is gonna be mayhem
I already saw a few months ago loads of voters queuing up outside my local Pick n Pay.
Not sure what they were up to but it was a bloody long queue all the way down the car park
Didn't affect me as I just walked straight to the door and did my shopping.
 
as if I needed another reason to avoid PNP,
now millions of people standing there, all spreading their germs, and shoplifting and causing chaos,
to get their minuscule R350 grant, that's completely worthless, even if spent very carefully.
that 350 is difference between life and death for some....

saying its worthless is quite insensitive
 
that 350 is difference between life and death for some....

saying its worthless is quite insensitive
maybe so, but what does the R350 actually get you? can they survive with it?
they literally starve the rest of the month after the R350 is used up, and that's almost instantly.

and hate to say this, most of them live on credit anyway, as nasty as that is to say.
 
maybe so, but what does the R350 actually get you? can they survive with it?
they literally starve the rest of the month after the R350 is used up, and that's almost instantly.

and hate to say this, most of them live on credit anyway, as nasty as that is to say.
Do odd jobs, a R100 here and and another there at random times during the month, plus the R350, not like people are just sitting there, doing nothing and waiting for the R350, people hustle for survival.
 
maybe so, but what does the R350 actually get you? can they survive with it?
they literally starve the rest of the month after the R350 is used up, and that's almost instantly.

and hate to say this, most of them live on credit anyway, as nasty as that is to say.
if you can afford credit - the 350 is not for you. (morally) real world every tom dick and karen wants a piece,

if i think of the most destitute begging for food - if they were able to get hold of the 350 they could get enough bread+maize etc to survive a month (in a sensible world of course )
 
They need to get people to start receiving their grants via a bank account. SASSA does all the verification of a person's ID and address, which means that it would be stupidly easy for a bank to open an account for that person if they had those details.

this bank account solution is quite perplexing -- alot of people who need the money are overdrawn in any event.
getting it paid into this account just means the bank is getting paid and the recipient never sees it anyways.
 
They need to get people to start receiving their grants via a bank account. SASSA does all the verification of a person's ID and address, which means that it would be stupidly easy for a bank to open an account for that person if they had those details.

PNP might be paying for this (or doing it free), they probably calculated a given number of people collecting money would help them save on using cash vans moving excess cash (and the associated risk and insurance from heists), hence why there is a cap on the number of people who can collect and only collect at certain stores.
 
PNP might be paying for this (or doing it free), they probably calculated a given number of people collecting money would help them save on using cash vans moving excess cash (and the associated risk and insurance from heists), hence why there is a cap on the number of people who can collect and only collect at certain stores.
/waits for pnp store to get hit because now everyone knows they are sitting with cash...
 
/waits for pnp store to get hit because now everyone knows they are sitting with cash...

They (and all other big cash retailers) have always been targeted (specifically when the cash van comes to pick up from the safe)? Maybe not often. The idea is that the cash is already there from the shoppers buying and paying in cash, new cash shouldn't be delivered, so instead of one cash van collecting a large sum you have lots of mini R350 collections, sassa just does an eft for the cash distributed. Thieves can hit the pnp at any time after peak shopping times, don't need to wait for this sassa thing to happen.
 
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