Additional energy efficiency initiatives aim to maximise efforts to reduce the company’s reliance on the national grid and minimise impact on the environment

Food Lover’s Market says that it will expand its solar investments and implement energy-saving technologies at its distribution centres and certain stores to alleviate its reliance on Eskom-supplied power.

Checkers is the first South African retailer to replace its rotisserie chicken packaging with fully recyclable, responsibly sourced cardboard boxes. This will prevent 68 tons of non-recycled multi-layer laminated material from being landfilled every year.

The Pick n Pay Group today launched a comprehensive new strategic plan, which Group CEO Pieter Boone described as the “biggest and most important change in Pick n Pay for many years”.

An initiative between the Spar Group Ltd and the National Prosecuting Authority [NPA] has culminated in a donation of basic groceries and care items to the value of R300 000 per month to the NPA’s Thutuzela Care Centres.

The Shoprite Group aims to power 25% of its operations with renewable energy over the next five years and has added 22 new solar PV (photovoltaic) sites between February and September 2021, more than doubling its solar capacity.

Retailer Woolworths has launched a new trial that will see the group use electric panel vans as part of its online delivery fleet in South Africa.

Over the next three years, Pick n Pay will add another 200 new stores to its Boxer discount supermarket chain, from 342 company-owned stores currently, as it takes on Shoprite in the lower income part of the market.

Clicks, the JSE-listed health and beauty retailer yesterday, announced it would spend R846 million of capex in the new financial year for expansion of stores as it inches towards its target of establishing 900 stores in South Africa in the long term.