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...On Tuesday Shoprite, South Africa’s biggest supermarket owner, said it had spent R560mn ($30mn) on generator diesel in the last half of 2022, hitting profits despite strong sales growth....
...Shoprite, the grocery chain and South Africa’s largest private employer, is running out of space for solar panels on the roofs of its supermarkets and warehouses....
...Nearly 120, or about one in 10, ShopRite supermarkets in South Africa had been damaged by fire or looting, the company said....
...ShopRite signalled last year even before the pandemic that it was reviewing supermarket businesses outside South Africa, as regional sales were hit by falls in local currencies....
...Vertical farms also have to be competitive on price to attract supermarket shoppers....
...But the tycoon, whose other business interests include supermarket group Shoprite and investment firm Brait, held the position for barely a week before resigning, along with his son Jacob, “in order to reinforce...
...It also spun off its African retail assets into a separate listed company earlier this year in a move to give it control of supermarket operator Shoprite....
...Indeed, very few outlets of Africa’s best known supermarket chains, such as Spar and Shoprite, exist in Nigeria....
...Steinhoff of South Africa and Shoprite, Africa’s biggest supermarket chain, have called off talks to merge businesses on the continent in the face of criticism from minority shareholders....
...Shoprite, Africa’s biggest supermarket chain, and the South African furniture maker Steinhoff called off a merger of their assets on the continent, setting back Steinhoff’s dealmaking ambitions to become...
...Mastercard and Samsung have a tie up allowing Samsung Family Hub fridges to order directly from FreshDirect and ShopRite supermarkets....
...Steinhoff International, the South African furniture maker, and Shoprite, Africa’s biggest supermarket chain, are in talks to combine their African assets to create the continent’s largest retailer, in a...
...Katia, a teacher buying groceries with her husband, says she is impressed by the low prices and gluten-free snacks, but finds the experience less consistent than her mainstays: regional chains Giant and Shoprite...
...Shoprite likes to make a virtue out of its difficult operating environment. The South African supermarket chain, Africa’s biggest, boasts that “the tougher Africa gets, the bigger our advantage grows”....
...Despite currency fluctuations, political instability and low oil prices hurting some major African economies, sales and profits at South African property and retail group Shoprite have held up....
...At Mongu, the provincial capital, we go to a Shoprite, a supermarket that would not look out of place in American suburbia....
...Mr Wiese is also the largest shareholder in South Africa-based Shoprite, one of Africa’s biggest retailers....
...Strolling down the aisle at a Shoprite supermarket in the Lagos district of Surulere, he points to his brand — a bright, fiery, orangey red....
...At the entrance to the Shoprite supermarket in downtown Lusaka, women are wrestling with shopping trolleys....
...market, where he owns the Shoprite chain....
...Shoprite has more than 280 corporate and almost 40 franchise stores in 14 countries outside South Africa....
...Starting with 950 supermarkets in total, it managed to add just 16 supermarkets outside of South Africa this year....
...One of three Lagos malls, Palms is dominated by a cavernous Shoprite....
...The biggest are by far the foreign ones and include South Africa’s Shoprite, and Spar – a Dutch chain run in Nigeria by the local Artee Group....
...Up to now though, the expansion of supermarket chains through sub-Saharan Africa has been led primarily by the South African companies – most notably Shoprite, which operates in 16 other African countries...
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