Date | Title | Description |
11.11.2024 | Woolies Dash sees sales rise more than 50% | Woolworths Holdings’ on-demand grocery delivery service, Woolies Dash, recorded a 54.4% improvement in sales in the past year.
However, while far outstripping total sales growth, the impressive number is still slightly below recent sales fi... |
31.10.2024 | Afrihost AirMobile wins in MVNO data pricing showdown | TechCentral wanted to find out which of South Africa’s 20 mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) is the best, but deciding what metric to use to determine supremacy in this burgeoning sector is difficult, especially since differentiation ... |
29.10.2024 | AbbVie’s Bold Move: Acquiring Aliada Therapeutics for CNS Breakthroughs | In a strategic maneuver that echoes the age-old adage, "the early bird catches the worm," AbbVie has set its sights on the burgeoning field of central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. The Chicago-based pharmaceutical giant annou... |
28.10.2024 | Online sales a bright spot in bleak Pick n Pay results | Pick n Pay has reported another solid sales performance from its online, on-demand grocery delivery platform even as the rest of the group grapples with a difficult turnaround.
“Trading losses in the group’s Pick n Pay business grew 9.1%, i... |
28.10.2024 | South Africa’s ‘Pick n Pay’ to exit Nigeria after selling 51% stake in its joint venture | South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay is set to exit the Nigerian market by selling its 51% stake in a joint venture, as part of a broader restructuring strategy outside its home market, CEO Sean Summers announced on Monday as reported ... |
15.10.2024 | How Shoprite is using AI to sell you more groceries | Shoprite Holdings, parent of Shoprite and Checkers, which both make use of the Xtra Savings rewards programme, leans on the data collected via the scheme to gain insights into customer behaviour and inform the group’s strategy for increasin... |
20.09.2024 | Vodacom signs its first MVNO customer | Vodacom South Africa has built an enablement platform for mobile virtual network operators, signed up its first MVNO client and declared the platform “open for business”.
The client, Mr Price Mobile, is the first MVNO to be supported on Vod... |
03.09.2024 | New Checkers Sixty60 app to launch as sales soar | The number of deliveries made by Checkers Sixty60, the on-demand grocery delivery platform owned by Shoprite Holdings, grew sales by 58% in the 52 weeks to 30 June 2024.
The figure was revealed in Shoprite Holdings’ annual financial results... |
22.08.2024 | Listed: all the MVNOs in South Africa – H2 2024 edition | South Africa has a dynamic MVNO industry. It has been some seven months since TechCentral last published a comprehensive list of all the mobile virtual network operators in the local market. The emergence of two new entrants in that short p... |
02.08.2024 | Discovery Vitality's Bold Move: A Shift from Pick n Pay to Checkers | In a world where partnerships can make or break a brand, Discovery Vitality has chosen to pivot. The health rewards program, which has been a beacon for promoting healthy living among its members, has severed ties with Pick n Pay after a de... |
01.08.2024 | Discovery Vitality ditches Pick n Pay for Checkers | Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme focused on encouraging healthy habits for Discovery medical aid members, has ended a decade-long health benefits partnership with embattled retailer Pick n Pay.
Instead, it has started a new partner... |
27.07.2024 | Shoprite Holdings becomes majority shareholder in Delta, Asaba, and Owerri Malls in Nigeria | In their 2023 annual financial statement, Resilient REIT disclosed the disposal of their stake in Resilient Africa, the joint venture between Resilient REIT (60.94%) and Shoprite Holdings (39.04%) that owns Delta, Asaba, and Owerri Malls.
T... |
16.07.2024 | Which SA supermarket offers the cheapest sugar and teabags this week? | A number of South Africans face a daily challenge in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Picture: File
The rising cost of living is putting a strain on many South African families.
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03.07.2024 | Shoprite expands into B2B e-commerce | Shoprite Holdings has launched an online shopping and bulk delivery service aimed at small businesses, including spaza shops.
The move marks the first move by Shoprite-owned Cash & Carry, a wholesaler, into e-commerce.
“Bulk-buying cust... |
25.06.2024 | Takealot to add to TakealotMore subscription plan | The entrance to Takealot Group’s head office in Cape Town. Duncan McLeod/TechCentral
Takealot Group CEO Frederik Zietsman said on Tuesday that the Naspers-owned e-retailer plans to add more services to its TakealotMore subscription service,... |
13.06.2024 | Fire up the grill! Save on braai essentials this weekend | It’s a basket comparison between Shoprite, Checkers, Pick n Pay and Woolworths. Braai with these best prices this weekend. Photo: Complied
Want to experience the joy of a South African social gathering? Get the coals glowing and dive into a... |
10.06.2024 | Amazon South Africa struggles to find its footing | Amazon appears to be struggling to gain traction in the hotly contested e-commerce market following its South African launch a month ago.
According to a retail industry analyst, there are several factors that might be contributing to Amazon... |
04.06.2024 | Which is the most affordable supermarket this week? | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
South African households are struggling to make ends meet due to soaring prices.
– Wh... |
28.05.2024 | Discover the most affordable supermarket this week | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
Rising costs are putting a strain on South Africans’ budgets.
– When the exact name-b... |
27.05.2024 | Online sales a highlight in otherwise bleak Pick n Pay results | Online sales at Pick n Pay grew by nearly 75% in the past year – and more than doubled for on-demand sales via its asap! app and Takealot’s Mr D app.
This was, however, one of few bright spots in the troubled retailer’s annual results for t... |
23.05.2024 | Sustaining brand authenticity & human connection in a competitive global digital economy | Sustaining brand authenticity & human connection in a competitive global digital economy. Image: Matthew Boyd
Article written by Matthew Boyd, Brand Strategist & Founder of JDM Ikigai
I recently spent some time discussing these tren... |
22.05.2024 | S Africa polls: How Mandela's once revered ANC lost its way with scandals | - |
17.05.2024 | Checkers Sixty60 to expand beyond groceries | Shoprite Group’s Checkers Sixty60 app is getting a major overhaul, with the retail group promising “lightning-fast delivery” of 10 000 larger-sized products from its Checkers Hyper stores with same-day fulfilment.
New delivery vans have bee... |
14.05.2024 | Discover the most affordable supermarket in South Africa this week | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
Rising costs are putting a strain on South Africans’ budgets.
– When the exact name-b... |
09.05.2024 | Takealot takes aim at Amazon with Prime-style subscriptions | Just two days after Amazon launched e-commerce operations in South Africa, Naspers-owned Takealot has taken aim at the US retail giant by launching an Amazon Prime-style subscription model for its customers.
The new offering, called Takealo... |
07.05.2024 | Finding the best deals: This week’s cheapest supermarket in South Africa | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
Soaring prices are making it increasingly difficult for South Africans to make ends m... |
06.05.2024 | How many rewards programmes does the average South African belong to? | The primary motivation for consumers to participate in loyalty programmes is instant rewards. Image: Supplied
The NIQ (N NielsenIQ) Consumer Outlook report looks at the financial state of South African consumers, and their use of rewards pr... |
24.04.2024 | SA retailers have arrived at an e-commerce crossroads | South Africa’s e-commerce landscape has arrived at an important juncture. The explosive growth observed during the pandemic years has slowed somewhat while consumer spending power has faltered amid low economic growth and a global cost of l... |
23.04.2024 | South African supermarkets: Who has top deals this week? | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
The rising cost of everything is putting a strain on South Africans’ ability to manag... |
16.04.2024 | Why you should get your maize meal at SPAR this week | South Africans face daily challenges in coping with increases in the expenses associated with everyday life. Here are this week’s best prices. Image: File
Rising everyday costs present growing hurdles for South Africans as they strive to fu... |
10.04.2024 | South African supermarkets: Who’s got the best savings this week? | Checkers, Pick n Pay and Shoprite, which of these supermarkets is offering the BEST prices this week? Picture: File/Fotor
Increasing expenses in everyday life pose mounting challenges for South Africans in meeting their financial obligation... |
10.04.2024 | MTN and Vodacom are SA’s most valuable brands | MTN, Vodacom and Standard Bank are the most valuable brands in South Africa, according to new research from Brand Finance, a brand valuation consultancy.
MTN retained its top position from last year despite seeing an 8% decline in its brand... |
09.04.2024 | Australian grocery chain Woolworths teams up with Tesco, Shoprite to launch VC fund | Global supermarket chains including Tesco, Australia’s Woolworths Group and Africa’s biggest grocery retailer Shoprite have teamed up to launch a $125 million venture capital fund to accelerate retail innovation. |
18.03.2024 | The top three shopper savings cards in South Africa | Cashback rewards remain the top choice for economically active consumers. Image: Pixabay
The use of loyalty programmes in South Africa, which includes shopper savings cards, has increased significantly from 67% in 2015 to 76% in 2023/2024.
... |
11.03.2024 | South Africa’s first franchise fast-food restaurants | Stock image of a fast food meal. Image: Pexels/Isaac Taylor
South Africa’s history is filled with food, and there’s a long history of franchises that bring good food to its masses. Don’t know what you’d like to eat? There’s plenty of fast f... |
05.03.2024 | Checkers Sixty60 expanded to 505 stores | Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecth
Shoprite Group’s Checkers Sixty60 online shopping platform continues to grow an astounding rate, adding 63.1% year on year to sales in the six months ended 31 December 2023.
The retail giant said on Tuesday t... |
28.02.2024 | WATCH: Checkers Sixty60 biker ROBBED of groceries at gunpoint | WATCH: Checkers Sixty60 biker ROBBED of groceries at gunpoint Images: X/@mycyclelifeza
A video of a Checkers Sixty60 biker who was recently ROBBED of groceries at gunpoint outside a house has gone viral.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the... |
23.01.2024 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 Photos: Instagram:minevanniekerk/
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We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Tuesday, 23 January 2024.
In photos of a baby tea tha... |
22.01.2024 | Here is the most expensive grocery shop in SA? | Here is the most expensive grocery shop in SA? Photos: Stock/Canva
What shop do you think is the most expensive grocery shop in South Africa?
Woolworths: Checkers: Shoprite: Spar: Pick and Pay:
700g loaf of Albany Superior Sliced White Brea... |
07.01.2024 | What is the most expensive grocery shop in SA? | What is the most expensive grocery shop in SA? Photo: Stock/Canva
What shop do you think is the most expensive grocery shop in South Africa?
Woolworths: Checkers: Shoprite: Spar: Pick and Pay:
700g loaf of Albany Superior Sliced White Bread... |
30.11.2023 | R20: What can it buy you to EAT? | Barbeque Brisket Served With Coleslaw and Mac and Cheese
R20 doesn’t seem like a lot of money to most people, though for some South Africans it could be their whole food budget for the day.
A popular option for consumers, it might not make ... |
09.11.2023 | Insider Announces 110+ New Customers, Unveils World's Most Advanced Generative AI Solution for CX, Sirius AI™, and Launches Industry-Leading Capabilities in Q3'23 | NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Insider, a single platform for building individualized, cross-channel experiences, has achieved significant milestones in the third quarter of the year, with a focus on groundbreaking innovations, incr... |
10.08.2023 | 5 healthy foods that will SAVE you money at the till | 5 healthy foods that are affordable, too. Picture: Fotor.
As we’ve explored in our monthly articles about the cost of an average grocery basket in South Africa, the price of food – healthy or otherwise – is on the up! Fuel prices and inflat... |
19.04.2023 | Sassa beneficiaries left in the cold as SAPO falls? | Image via Facebook/ SASSA News
The South African Government released a statement stating that the South African Post Office will go under liquidation. This leaves Sassa beneficiaries out as they get their payouts at the post office.
ALSO RE... |
14.10.2022 | Shoprite App Wins MTN Business App Of The Year Awards | Shoprite |
22.08.2022 | Bursary opportunities for young people | Sonia Malinga completed her BCom Honours degree in Logistics Management after securing a Shoprite Group bursary: GCIS Vuk’uzenzele
Sonia Malinga (23) from Piet Retief in Mpumalanga says being a Shoprite Group bursary recipient has ensured a... |
25.11.2021 | Shoprite : Sunrise Park opens, creating more than 80 jobs | Shoprite created 87 new jobs with the opening of its new supermarket at Sunrise Park in Rustenburg.
Shoprite Sunrise Park offers customers a convenient shopping experience with 15 pay points and access to several in-store fresh food departm... |
25.11.2021 | Shoprite : Mabopane Railway opens, creating 18 new jobs | Shoprite opened the doors to its new supermarket at Mabopane Railway, north of Pretoria, in Gauteng on Wednesday, 24 November 2021.
Shoprite Mabopane Railway offers customers a convenient shopping experience with eight pay points and access... |
23.08.2021 | Shoprite’s Money Market Account Launches Instant EFT Payments | Shoprite |
23.08.2021 | Shoprite’s Money Market Account Launches Instant EFT Payments | Shoprite
Shoprite is the first South African retailer to launch an instant electronic funds transfer (EFT) service.
The EFT service enables customers to instantly send vouchers to another person in just three simple steps. Senders only need... |
13.04.2021 | Shoprite Launches Free Monthly Xtra Savings Funeral Benefit | wp_booster error:
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01.03.2021 | African FinTech trends in a post-Covid world | Share this:
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26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com |
26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com
For the past two years, we published AlphaCode, South Africa’s leading FinTech thinkers, predictions about the financial technology (FinTech) landscape. We bel... |
25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year.
We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, clos... |
25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year.
We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, close... |
15.10.2020 | Shoprite Xtra Savings Sign Ups 1 Million Customers in 72 Hours | Shoprite Xtra Savings |
09.04.2020 | Shoprite, Checkers Shoppers Can Use Their Phones to Pay For Groceries | Zapper |
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02.09.2019 | Retail Industry Leader Looking for Aspirant Data Scientists | data scientists
Do you love working with numbers? Does big data excite you? Are you interested in joining the biggest retail enterprise in Africa?
Then sign up for an apprenticeship at the Shoprite Group’s Data Science Academy. Applications... |
02.09.2019 | Retail Industry Leader Looking for Aspirant Data Scientists | data scientists |
10.01.2019 | From Sasol to Shoprite, these 8 groups still have 2019 university bursaries up for grabs | (Pictures: News24/Unsplash)
Passing matric with above-average marks can open doors to private bursaries from companies and organisations – some of which guarantee employment after graduation.
Shoprite, Sasol, and Nanoteq are among bursary p... |
21.05.2012 | Shoprite, Right Through The Years | Who would have thought, in 1979, when an unknown, anonymous company purchased eight supermarkets in Cape Town for 1,000,000 Rand, that one of Africa’s greatest companies of all times had been born?
From its humble beginnings, The Shoprite G... |