Takealot clients have taken to social media after noticing that Takealot increased the price of standard deliveries and the minimum order value needed for free shipping.<\/p>\n
Standard shipping is R60, while the\u00a0the minimum order needed for free shipping has increased to\u00a0R450.<\/p>\n
Previously, it was R35 for standard shipping and a minimum order of R250 for free shipping.<\/p>\n
Takealot told\u00a0MyBroadband that its\u00a0standard\/economy delivery charge has been R60 since August 2016.<\/p>\n
“This delivery charge fairly reflects the actual cost of delivery to our business, which before that point had remained unchanged for some time,” said Takealot.<\/p>\n
The increase in the\u00a0minimum spend needed to qualify for free delivery came into effect on 7 March.<\/p>\n
“As we grow, we can\u2019t continue to offer free delivery on orders below R450,” said Takealot.<\/p>\n
“This wouldn\u2019t be sustainable without increasing our prices and our delivery charges, neither of which we want to do.”<\/p>\n
The best option for its\u00a0customers is to increase the qualifying minimum spend amount for free delivery, said Takealot.<\/p>\n
“Making this change allows us to keep our prices low, delivery charges the same, and keeps our delivery options competitive with other South African online stores.”<\/p>\n
Takealot said its FAQ<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>section\u00a0<\/strong>outlines its\u00a0delivery charges in full.<\/p>\n “To keep customers fully informed during their order process, we show them how close they are to the free delivery minimum spend in their cart summary while they shop,” said Takealot.<\/p>\n Takealot has increased the minimum spend value needed to qualify for free delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":157533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[40688,35,995],"class_list":["post-201938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-delivery","tag-headline","tag-takealot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201994,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201938\/revisions\/201994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Takealot launches Apple Store<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"