Pick n Pay asap! vs Checkers Sixty60 — grocery delivery showdown

MyBroadband tested delivery from Checkers and Pick n Pay’s smartphone apps and found Pick n Pay asap! to be cheaper and faster than Checkers Sixty60.
Checkers recently launched a marketing campaign stating that it is cheaper to have groceries delivered by their Sixty60 service than driving to the shop.
It based this claim on a running cost of R7.01 per kilometre and an average return trip of 7.5km, which would cost R52.57 compared to the delivery cost of R35.
MyBroadband ordered a basket of randomly chosen grocery items that we could use in the office using Checkers Sixty60 and Pick n Pay asap!, and compared the prices on the app to in-store prices to verify these claims.
Delivery for both services is R35. They also both allow 35 items per order, despite Checkers Sixty60’s T&Cs stating that it has a 30-item maximum.
If you go over this item limit, you must split your order and pay delivery multiple times. Therefore, Checkers may work out more expensive with a longer list of items.
We ordered the same list of items using the two apps in the morning at 07:44.
Checkers Sixty60 immediately notified us that the next available delivery slot was only at 11:00.
Our Pick n Pay order arrived at the office 29 minutes later at 08:13, while the Checkers order took two hours and 43 minutes, arriving at 10:27.
Although the Checkers order arrived earlier than expected, it still took much longer than the original promise of 60-minute delivery.
We chose all the items blindly, without comparing pricing, to avoid skewing the test results.
When we compared prices afterwards, Pick n Pay was cheaper by R20.90 — a significant difference in a R400 order.
Price results may vary with different orders, as both shops sell some items for cheaper than the other, but the significantly faster delivery sealed the win for Pick n Pay.
Checkers Sixty60 vs Pick n Pay asap! | |||
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Checkers Sixty60 Price | Pick n Pay asap! Price | Difference | |
Clover full cream ultra Pasteurised milk 2l | R29.99 |
R24.99 |
R5.00 |
Clover Krush orange juice 1.5l | R33.99 | R33.99 | N/A |
Albany Superior white bread 700g | R17.49 | R17.59 | R0.10 |
Beacon Marshmallow Eggs 36 | R79.99 |
R62.99 |
R17.00 |
Lays Caribbean onion & balsamic Vinegar chips 120g | R21.99 |
R19.99 |
R2.00 |
Lindt Lindor milk chocolate box 200g | R134.99 | R134.99 | N/A |
Hug in a Mug hot chocolate 500g | R57.99 | R60.99 | R3.00 |
Subtotal | R376.43 | R355.53 | R20.90 |
Delivery cost | R35.00 | R35.00 | N/A |
Total | R411.43 |
R390.53 |
R20.90 |
Delivery time | 2 hours 43 minutes |
29 minutes |
02:14 |