Pick n Pay warning amidst store closures

BusinessTech said:
have warned to approach Pick n Pay with caution as the company is closing stores and losing market share
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Would you suggest I not visit them directly or rather the entire shopping centre they are in.

Maybe the store will close while I am in them or maybe I will form part of a liquidated item for them to sell.
 
Shoprite has taken over many Pick n Pay stores. It had opened eight new supermarkets at sites previously occupied by Pick n Pay on the East Rand.

One of these supermarkets is a Shoprite store, while the remaining seven are branded as Checkers stores.
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What an absolute own. Checkers are absolutely racking it in.

I recon it was Sixty60 that did it. They locked in customers with an amazing product, and that was it.
 
konfab said:
What an absolute own. Checkers are absolutely racking it in.

I recon it was Sixty60 that did it. They locked in customers with an amazing product.
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ASAP isn't actually that bad, I've used both quite a bit and ASAP sometimes beats Six60.
What killed PnP is literally the lack of open tills, if you've ever gone into one, it always has like 4 tills open at most.
 
Lupus said:
ASAP isn't actually that bad, I've used both quite a bit and ASAP sometimes beats Six60.
What killed PnP is literally the lack of open tills, if you've ever gone into one, it always has like 4 tills open at most.
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For me it was when I complained about specials that when they go through the tills are normal price and the bakery's kak products.

Fat **** manager told me to go buy elsewhere if I am not happy.

I am buying elsewhere now, what now?
 
Lupus said:
ASAP isn't actually that bad, I've used both quite a bit and ASAP sometimes beats Six60.
What killed PnP is literally the lack of open tills, if you've ever gone into one, it always has like 4 tills open at most.
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I remember summer of 2018. I was at Brackenfell Hyper on a Friday evening. I counted 5 open tills. What a time to be alive.
 
Pick n Pay only has themselves to blame. They had short term investment goals with the rubbish from the UK at the helm. They achieved the short term goals in 2013-2018 but then downhill from there.

The PnP management team reminds me of the ANC. This is why I wish them to suffer.
 
My_King said:
For me it was when I complained about specials that when they go through the tills are normal price and the bakery's kak products.

Fat **** manager told me to go buy elsewhere if I am not happy.

I am buying elsewhere now, what now?
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Something is wrong at R16 for a ****ing PS chocolate! I also now dodge at all costs
 
Pick n pay is just generally much more expensive than checkers. Actually makes me overlook the generally sht service levels at checkers. The 60 app does help though in not having to deal with staff directly or visit their generally dirty stores.
 
Lupus said:
ASAP isn't actually that bad, I've used both quite a bit and ASAP sometimes beats Six60.
What killed PnP is literally the lack of open tills, if you've ever gone into one, it always has like 4 tills open at most.
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I never liked the attitude of the pick n pay staff when going in there. Yes all the other retailers staff have atttiude but I just found that Pick N pay staff were just not willing to help or even acknowledge you exist with a "what you doing here" type vibe
 
Quicks said:
Pick n Pay has a leadership problem. How difficult is it to get good layout of store, have better specials then Checkers and have trained staff.
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Exactly, they have access to the same suppliers, same products, this is a rinse-repeat exercise, while you constantly evolve and innovate.

Checkers also has to deal with high rentals, supply-chain costs etc. it is not a unique problem.
 
Still frequent my local pick n pay mainly due to convenience and distance but they have gone downhill the last few years in some respects. Specials not really as good anymore, often no stock of what is on special, stuff like that. We prefer checkers but they are further from us so a schlepp. The wife does her monthly big shop at Checkers though and Pick n Pay around the corner is more a bread and milk stop these days.
 
ISP cash cow said:
I never liked the attitude of the pick n pay staff when going in there. Yes all the other retailers staff have atttiude but I just found that Pick N pay staff were just not willing to help or even acknowledge you exist with a "what you doing here" type vibe
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They seemed to strike quite often for a few years because every now and then I’d go there and they would have temp staff at the tills.

The temp staff were friendly, and efficient that was the first tell. They also had tags to say they were from a temp agency.
 
Pegging said:
I remember summer of 2018. I was at Brackenfell Hyper on a Friday evening. I counted 5 open tills. What a time to be alive.
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5... Was there some kinda party or something?
 
ProfA said:
Pick n pay is just generally much more expensive than checkers. Actually makes me overlook the generally sht service levels at checkers. The 60 app does help though in not having to deal with staff directly or visit their generally dirty stores.
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I compare across most supermarkets and you can get out better results from PnP from Checkers sometimes, this is why sometimes I've had both ASAP and six60 arrive at the same time outside my gate.
 
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