These days, managing your life via your smartphone is nothing new – whether it’s organising travel, booking accommodation, banking, reading the news or tracking your fitness.

Supermarkets are to start growing fresh produce in ‘pick your own’ aisles. Greens, salads and herbs will be grown inside hi-tech cabinets, which have their own water supply and LED lights that promote growth 365 days a year.

The Department of Environmental Affairs is currently in talks with the industry bodies to phase out or completely ban plastic products like straws and microbeads in South Africa.

Pick n Pay is trialling the lowest priced reusable bag yet in South Africa, as an affordable reusable alternative to plastic carrier bags.This first of its kind, this environment-friendly R5 budget bag is made from green recycled plastic bottles, and will initially be introduced in 22 stores across the country to gauge customer reaction.

The Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) has instructed Woolworths to change the labelling on some of its pork product packaging.

The Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) have collaborated to launch a free-to-use web tool aimed at helping smaller businesses with labour issues.

The Department of Labour’s Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) branch says it will embark on a national blitz campaign in February to assess levels of compliance with labour laws – particularly the newly-introduced National Minimum Wage.

The hard work and success of two Gauteng community food gardens are being celebrated on the Shoprite Group’s truck fleet.

The National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA) provides for, amongst others, a national minimum wage; the establishment of a National Minimum Wage Commission; a review and annual adjustment of the national minimum wage; and the provision of an exemption from paying the national minimum wage.

It has become a relatively common trend for shoppers to snack on food from the shelves in supermarkets before they have paid for it at the till.

Shoprite Checkers has been ordered to remove the word "margarine" when advertising the popular sandwich spread Rama.

BEE has largely benefited a select few black people and only resulted in further inequality, while fuelling racial tensions, says one expert.