Browsing: Retail and e-commerce

Consumers no longer require a smartphone app to shop for groceries on the Checkers 60Sixty service.

The popular Checkers Sixty60 on-demand shopping service grew sales in the first half of its 2025 financial year by 47.1%.

PepsiCo’s South African development fund and Absa are backing the Khula mobile marketplace app for farmers.

First Checkers swiped Discovery Vitality from Pick n Pay. Now Pick n Pay has a partnership with eBucks to boast about.

Naspers subsidiary Prosus has agreed to buy Just Eat Takeaway.com for €4.1-billion in an all-cash deal.

South Africans are warming to idea of shopping online, with retailers’ sales showing big growth over the festive season.

Leroy Merlin, working with AfriGIS, is launching a marketplace that combines product sales with on-demand services.

Amazon has opened a walk-in centre in South Africa that it says will help its independent sellers attract more customers.

Naspers subsidiary Prosus is acquiring online travel agency Despegar.com for the equivalent of R32-billion.

Takealot, has hired thousands of personal shoppers to help it penetrate townships and rural areas.