Major South African pharmacy retailer Dis-Chem is charging into the baby market, acquiring two big brands in almost as many years, drawing concerns from competitors around its increasing purchasing power with both local and international suppliers.
South Africa’s top brick-and-mortar retailers, including Shoprite, Woolworths, and Massmart, are improving their eCommerce capabilities to become bigger online shopping players.
South Africa has a multitude of brightly coloured cereal boxes stacked on the shelves of major retailers, adorned with mascots and advertising “fun” flavours for kids – but shoppers have been warned to be mindful of the sugar content in each offering
Applications for the Shoprite Group’s bursary programme are now open for the 2022 academic year. The bursaries offer students in the fields of accounting and information technology an unparalleled opportunity to further their studies - and then go on to work for Africa’s largest retailer.
To be turning 90 seems unreal. It’s a very long time, and if I think back on the many ups and downs, the difficulties we’ve been through as a nation, it’s quite amazing to be writing this at all.
As the world enters a new COVID phase we are now getting to grips with the practicalities. We have worked out pretty much where our healthcare capacity problems lie and how to protect those.
