{"id":247764,"date":"2018-02-13T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247764"},"modified":"2018-02-13T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:01:19","slug":"matrix-warehouse-to-open-more-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/247764-matrix-warehouse-to-open-more-stores.html","title":{"rendered":"Matrix Warehouse to open more stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix Warehouse <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/189672-matrix-warehouse-gets-an-upgrade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>unveiled its new branding<\/strong><\/a> and refreshed store look last year, and will build on this success in 2018, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>It currently has 84 stores across the country and is looking to expand its presence in Gauteng, Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal, and Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>Matrix Warehouse already has a strong presence in Gauteng, but it has identified three new locations in Johannesburg which will target more affluent buyers.<\/p>\n<p>It is not only the large cities which have enjoyed strong growth, however, as it said larger towns are becoming more productive &#8211; which is resulting in good growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe North West and Mpumalanga are definitely producing great growth, and Limpopo is following suit,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The company also plans to carry more products in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA larger portfolio of products are being introduced and a wider range of components and peripherals are going to make Matrix Warehouse an even greater shopping experience to our clientele.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top-selling products<\/h3>\n<p>Matrix Warehouse has always focused on computing products, and has achieved success selling PCs, PC components, and peripherals.<\/p>\n<p>The gaming sector in particular has been a strong performer for Matrix Warehouse, which carries a wide range of gaming products.<\/p>\n<p>Another strong trend is portability, thanks to the increase in speed, battery life, and weight of portable computing products.<\/p>\n<p>This, in turn, has resulted in the growth of peripherals which are suitable for portable solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortable hard drives and flash memory are always in high demand,\u201d said Matrix Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that cryptocurrency mining has become wildly popular and sales of cryptocurrency mining components have more than quadrupled over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there was more stock available, this would be our top-selling item,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/189672-matrix-warehouse-gets-an-upgrade.html\">Matrix Warehouse gets an upgrade<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix Warehouse continues to grow its presence and has identified locations for new stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219378,"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":[15],"tags":[35,19230],"class_list":["post-247764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-matrix-warehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247764"}],"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=247764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248433,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247764\/revisions\/248433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}