PICS: Inside Shoprite’s giant new distribution centre
It consolidates the activities of five different distribution centres spread throughout Cape Town and provides jobs for about 3 500 people at the facility...
Shoprite’s full-year results tell a story of growth in a tough...
Shoprite, with a staff of 143,802 people, is SA’s largest private sector employer, the grocery chain claimed in its results for the 52 weeks...
Retailers, suppliers co-creating category plans to drive mutual growth
Greame Tulloch, South African MD of global customer science company, Dunnhumby says, “What is essential in category assessment is understanding what is important at...
The four-step strategy to mobile advertising success
Mobile technology allows every single person globally to bridge the gap between their digital and physical worlds, allowing us to access anything we want...
Shoprite calls on students to take up bursary opportunities
Shoprite provided 191 students with bursaries to study over the 2017 academic year, and is calling on more students to take up bursary opportunities...
Huggies® Wipes now new and improved
This is why most parents won’t leave the house or be caught without their pack of wipes. Wipes are mom’s secret weapon for ensuring...
Babe-Eeze 2-in-one feeding mat
The 2-in-one bowl feeding mat has five compartments for separate and varied food choices - reminding parents to serve a fruit, veggies, protein and...
Tech startups crucial to Pick n Pay’s technology strategy
“Tech startups are crucial to Pick n Pay’s technology strategy,” Van Rensburg told Ventureburn in a set of emailed responses. He says over half...
Popimedia creates tool to leverage retail’s big data stockpiles
To date, says Popimedia co-founder and CTO Gil Sperling, retailers have had the ability to evaluate the success of their ad spend on social...
Survey: SA banking clients prefer digital
The Customer Experience in Banking Survey, queried more than 10,000 banking customers in two waves – the first covering the UK, UAE, India and Australia,...
A shopper marketing conundrum: Providing a personalised mobile experience at scale
Big box stores, local supermarkets, and convenience stores all offer very different in-store experiences to shoppers, so reaching shoppers on the platforms they use...
JLL report reveals growing demand for prime logistics space in Africa
Anthony Lewis, head of investor services for JLL Sub-Saharan Africa comments, “With forecasts of sustained high economic growth rates in several African countries, there...
How to supercharge ROI from your retail marketing
Point-of-sale (POS) data provides critical information, but it only tells part of the story. When it comes to optimising your marketing, real power comes...
SA clambers out of recession but retail sector is likely to...
The sector grew less than expected at the start of the third quarter with marginal growth of 1.8% year on year in July 2017...
Unilever’s brand plan to grow business across Africa
The new Africa Hub Office will be based in a state of the art office
in Atholl Towers in Sandton. This is a 5-star green rated...
Bitcoin now accepted at Pick n Pay
In a statement posted on its website, Cape Town-based specialist software payments development house Electrum, said customers at Pick n Pay’s campus store are...
Tata launches Tata Ultra light trucks
According
to the company, the Tata Ultra is designed and tested for South African
conditions and will deliver five key benefits:- -
Pick n Pay shares drop after warning retrenchment costs will eat...
The grocery chain said in a trading statement that
HEPS for the 26 weeks to August 27 would be at least 19c, or 20%, lower...