Tag: shopping
99% of consumers are changing their shopping habits to save money
South African consumers want more flexibility in how they shop, value locally sourced products and are willing to share their data for loyalty programmes if they can access greater discounts 20...
Woolworths online food makes inroads among shoppers
Retailer Woolworths said Thursday (20 January) that group online sales for the half-year financial period ending 26 December grew by 22.4%, and contributed 13.7% to its total turnover and concession sales.
Group...
BMG launches a new user-friendly B2B online shopping platform
Hot-off-the-press news from BMG is the launch this month (September 2020) of the company’s new online shopping platform - BMG Online - which makes doing business in the industrial sector, even...
Visa, Mastercard say they just made mobile shopping a lot easier
Smartphones have made taking a photo and checking fantasy football scores a breeze, but inputting credit card details on that small screen can still be frustrating enough that many shoppers just...
Instagram is testing shopping posts as ads
Instagram will be testing a feature that will give shopping businesses the ability to run their existing shopping posts as ads in Ads Manager.
People love to use Instagram to browse, explore...
South Africa’s largest malls are banning forbidding plastic bags
Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) – with a property portfolio including Sandton City, Eastgate and Melrose Arch – has announced that it will appoint a ‘no plastic shopping bags’ policy across its...
Instagram moves into E-commerce with shopping button
Facebook-owned Instagram on Tuesday made a move into potentially lucrative e-commerce by adding an option to buy products shown off in posts by selected brands.
A new "checkout" button for instant purchasing...
Pick n Pay trials new reusable eco-friendly bags
Pick n Pay is trialing a new affordable reusable alternative to plastic carrier bags.
The retailer said that the new bag is the first of its kind, being made from green recycled...
South African consumers ‘duped’ on #BlackFriday
South African shoppers made the most of discounts offered by retailers on Black Friday, with TVs, toilet papers, nappies flying off the shelves.
But experts quickly described the discounts as...
SA will have 17 new shopping centres by the end of December
A new study published by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Real Estate South Africa on behalf of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), has found that local malls are getting bigger.
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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...
