Tag: Woolworths
Misleading reporting on counterfeit Woolworths canned pilchards
Official Statement
Lucky Star would like to rectify misleading information regarding counterfeit canned pilchards seized in Daleside, Gauteng during a SAPS raid.
Our investigators and third-party experts have categorically confirmed that this is...
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...
Checkers takes aim at Woolworths with new upmarket stores
Retailer Checkers has launched a new state-of-the-art supermarket at Chartwell Corner in Dainfern, Gauteng, further growing its share of the premium grocery sector in South Africa.
More than 40 new jobs were...
Woolworths will invest R1-billion in prices to make its products ‘accessible’
Woolworths has announced that it will invest R1-billion in its prices over the next two to three years. This commitment is to make its products ‘more accessible to more customers’. The...
Sports retailing on a winning streak?
MOST retailers – including Cape Town-based stalwarts Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Woolworths, Truworths International and The Foschini Group – have emerged from the prolonged Covid-19 lockdown with new plans to engage...
Woolies bedeviled by declining sales
As Woolworths tries to recover from the impairments of A$712.5 million (R7.02 billion) it suffered last year in its Australian subsidiary David Jones, the retailer continued to experience declining sales in the 26...
No Christmas bonus for SA’s top retailers
SA’s floundering economy has resulted in two of its largest clothing retailers, Mr Price and Woolworths, reporting disappointing growth for the festive season.
Their trading updates triggered the biggest single-day drop on...
Initiative to Capture Cape Town’s Trash Before it Hits the Coast
The City of Cape Town has joined key players and interested groups in the first of many meetings, to investigate ways to remove garbage from Cape Town’s rivers so it doesn’t...
These Woolworths stores are switching to reusable plastic bags – and plastic bags have...
Woolworths introduce reusable plastic bags at four of its Western Cape stores from November as part of its plan to completely phase out single-use shopping bags by 2020.
Single-use plastic...
South Africa’s Woolworths sees up to 17.5% fall in profit
Half-year profit at South African retailer Woolworths Holdings could fall by as much as 17.5 percent, it said on Monday, sending its shares down more than 9 percent.
A combination of a...
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