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Pick n Pay Hypermarket in Faerie Glen in Pretoria – and other hypermarkets in the same region – are misleading their customers, particularly those with a sweet tooth, about ‘savings’ they will make by buying combo multipacks of certain…

Reading Time: 3 minutesESL, an ESL FACEIT Group brand, has today revealed that it will bring more world-class esports to Australia later this year as Intel® Extreme Masters (IEM) returns to Sydney for the fourth time. IEM…

South Africa’s rolling blackouts could lead to destabilising food shortages as food retailers battle crippling cost pressures – and government’s silence in response to calls for relief from the industry will make it complicit. Gareth…

The Shoprite Group has opened the first outlet of Uniq, its foray into the clothing format, at Canal Walk (alongside its Checkers Hyper). This is its sixth entry into categories adjacent to its core supermarket business. To date, it is…

If it has not arrived yet, a fierce pricing battle brought on by South Africa’s unending electricity supply crisis is brewing among grocery retailers. South Africa’s largest retailers are spending millions daily to keep their stores…

Pick n Pay’s share price fell 8.5% on Wednesday, after it said it is spending around R60 million a month on diesel and may have to reprioritise its capital investments as load shedding cost pressures mount. In a trading update for the 43…

The announcement by Pick n Pay in May that it would launch an on-demand grocery offer on Takealot’s Mr D app caught the industry by surprise. The market originally saw this as a tidy, ringfenced venture. Since the Mr D offer went live in…

FIFI PETERS: Let’s get into those Pick n Pay results. The group with its first-half numbers today, reporting double-digit turnover growth of 11.5% to R51.3 billion in the 28 weeks to August, also saying that profit margins held up well…

There has been some concern among analysts and investors about just how long Woolworths could sustain its above-market growth in its Food business. The one strategy former CEO Ian Moir got right (he got many wrong) was to become a big…

JSE-listed retailer Pick n Pay plans to open 200 new Boxer stores by 2026 as part of its plan to double the discount retail brand’s sales and gain 3% market share. The plan was unveiled by Boxer MD Marek Masojada on Tuesday. “We have…