{"id":240336,"date":"2017-11-30T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T07:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240336"},"modified":"2017-11-30T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T07:57:19","slug":"makro-apologises-for-delayed-black-friday-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/240336-makro-apologises-for-delayed-black-friday-orders.html","title":{"rendered":"Makro apologises for delayed Black Friday orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makro has sent an email to customers apologising for delays in processing online orders.<\/p>\n<p>The mail states the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for placing an online order with us. We have received a large number of orders over the past week and, due to this, there may be a delay in getting your order processed.<\/p>\n<p>We have expanded our fulfilment team and we are working hard to ensure you receive your order as soon as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mail comes after a huge Black Friday 2017 week in South Africa, which saw Makro run specials from\u00a022- 26 November.<\/p>\n<p>Makro Marketing and Ecommerce Director Andrew Stein told MyBroadband last week that online and in-store <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/239532-samsung-tvs-and-r10-million-in-2-hours-massive-black-friday-online-traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sales were extremely good<\/strong><\/a>, with TVs and large appliances popular.<\/p>\n<p>The mail from Makro is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-240338\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail.jpg\" alt=\"Makro Mail\" width=\"640\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail-436x400.jpg 436w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail-768x705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail-469x430.jpg 469w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Makro-Mail-1200x1101.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/240224-dstvs-latest-subscriber-numbers-and-revenue-figures.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">DStv\u2019s latest subscriber numbers and revenue figures<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makro has sent an email to customers apologising for delays in processing online orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":212204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7001,849],"class_list":["post-240336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-black-friday","tag-makro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240336"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240340,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240336\/revisions\/240340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}