Tag: retailers
Business is booming in Cape Town’s CBD
Business is experiencing strong growth in the Cape Town’s Central City with 135 new entities opening in 2022, bringing the total number of businesses to 3 116 compared with 2 981...
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The pros and cons of home delivery as ecommerce surges past R55 billion a...
With ecommerce in South Africa breaching the R55 billion a year barrier, home delivery has become a way of life for the country’s consumers. Yet delivery isn’t the right fit for every retailer’s...
How retailers can position for growth and operational efficiency amid plunging sales
Over the past three years, South African retailers have navigated a difficult landscape with challenges including the fallout from the pandemic, global supply chain disruptions, rising inflation and unprecedented load shedding....
Retailers must accommodate the 86% of consumers who still use cash
With recent research showing that only 14% of South African consumers are ready to go completely cashless, retailers should be looking at ways to accommodate their customers’ preferred way to pay, while also...
Opinion piece: Ensuring Black Friday doesn’t accidentally put your business in the ‘red’
By Tennille Bell, General Manager: Sales at Programmed Process Outsourcing (PPO)
Black Friday has become a global shopping phenomenon, characterised by an annual spending spree by shoppers on the fourth Friday of November,...
How agile retailers can keep pace with a volatile fuel price
South African consumers and retailers have been warned to brace themselves for yet more fuel price increases in November. Volatile fuel pricing is likely to be a part of the landscape...
Hopes of recovery for SA furniture manufacturers as retailers expand local sourcing
The next 36 months hold promise for the local furniture manufacturing industry, states the eThekwini Furniture Cluster (EFC), which states that its market research among prominent South African furniture retailers have...
Supply crisis spurs South African retailers to end Asia reliance
Spiralling shipping costs and Covid-19 supply chain disruptions are accelerating a shift by South African retailers to end their heavy reliance on Asia and move to source products locally.
More than 50%...
We have enough food in SA to feed everyone: yet the food deficit at...
SOUTH Africa produces enough food to feed all its people. Farmers, agri processing plants, food manufacturers, retailers, warehousing and logistics companies, food distributors, and thousands of other businesses that operate in...
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Two SAB plants get R5.8 billion upgrades
The R5.8 billion investment commitment made by South African Breweries (SAB) has been utilised to increase capacity at two of its plants.
The company said...
