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Shoprite & Checkers ready for this year’s Black Friday bonanza

Written by Super User on 06 November 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Checkers is the most experienced South African supermarket in the Black Friday game, after being the first food retailer to introduce this one-day sales promotion locally in 2014.

Africa becomes a dark hunting ground for Shoprite

Written by Super User on 06 November 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Retailer is in the middle of a review of its operations in the rest of the continent

Shoprite investor seeks to curb Wiese power with director

Written by Super User on 04 November 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Janice Kew

A Shoprite Holdings Ltd. shareholder nominated a veteran retail executive to the board of Africa’s biggest grocer in an attempt to reduce the influence of Chairman Christo Wiese -- part of a wider investor pushback against the former billionaire.

Pick n Pay gears up for black Friday

Written by Super User on 29 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Black Friday continues to gain momentum in South Africa, with many customers eagerly awaiting Black Friday deals on 29 November 2019. This year is certainly no different, with customers looking to make the most of their year-end purchases.

South Africa and UK agree terms on trade post-Brexit

Written by Super User on 28 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: James Miller

The ANC’s Minister for Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, has concluded a groundbreaking new trade deal with the UK, ensuring all existing trade arrangements and more have been cemented prior to the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU).

Raids force the closure of Pretoria Spar supermarket

Written by Super User on 25 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Brian Sokutu

The raids at two Spar outlets and a large Meat World butchery followed an anonymous tip-off about ‘unscrupulous employers’ breaking the law.

Why retailers in South Africa continue to build brick-and-mortar stores

Written by Super User on 23 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Staff Writer

Advisory firm Accenture suggests that traditional retailers in South Africa are putting most of their efforts into their core brick-and-mortar stores as they find online operations expensive to maintain and often unprofitable.

Over 20 Spar stores closed after owners bring brand ‘into disrepute’

Written by Super User on 18 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Dave Savides and Daleen van Manen

A family business which owns 22 Spar shops stands accused of ‘competing with businesses of retail members and bringing the Spar brand into disrepute’.

Checkers just revived ‘Xtra Savings’, its answer to Smart Shopper and WRewards – but its discounts are a little variable

Written by Super User on 14 October 2019. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Phillip de Wet

Checkers on Monday (14/10/2019) relaunched a concept it tested in 2016, then shelved for a couple of years: a discount card called Xtra Savings.