With a Covid-19 shortage of butchers and slaughterers in parts of the world including Britain, a career in the meat industry, especially as a master butcher, is not looking like a bad idea.

The Shoprite Group has launched its new ground-breaking digital business hub, ShopriteX which is combining data science, technology and innovation with its operational strength to provide increasingly enhanced customer experiences.

Forgot your bank card while on the go? Get cash without using your card! Nedbank cardless withdrawals is now available at participating Shoprite stores.

Woolworth is collecting its in-store reusable fabric bags that customers don’t need anymore and is converting them to shipping pallets, but only in Cape Town for now.

Clicks has appointed Bertina Engelbrecht as its first female chief executive. Engelbrecht, 58, an admitted attorney and the group’s corporate affairs director, has been appointed as chief executive-designate. She starts in January, making her South Africa’s first black female to lead a JSE-listed retail group.

Njabulo Sithole started baking as a part time hobby, but today his confectioneries have reached the shelves of retailers as big as Pick n Pay, Spar, and various garage forecourt stores, and he has an annual turnover of more than R3 million.

Woolworths will no longer have a CEO for its SA operations after the current person in the role, Zyda Rylands, is stepping down after leading the division for six years.

The Clicks Group has announced that its chief executive officer and executive director Vikesh Ramsunder has resigned from the group with effect from 31 December 2021.

Approved recipients of the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant can collect their benefit from Pick n Pay and Boxer stores nationwide from Wednesday, 22 September.