Shoprite and Packa-Ching have launched a second mobile buy-back centre in the Eastern Cape, following the recent success of the programme in East London.

Engen’s fast-food convenience offering is flourishing, and Cape Town customers can now enjoy a slice of Andiccio24’s delicious pizza at the newly opened Engen Settler’s Way Convenience Centre in Mowbray.

Checkers Sixty60 has launched a South African supermarket first with a new recycling initiative for its popular brown paper bags that will help close the recycling loop for its customers.

The Shoprite Group now generates enough electricity to power over 1 100 households - 12 300 MWh of electricity - a year from solar energy, following the installation of rooftop PV (photovoltaic) panels at 19 sites in South Africa and Namibia.

More than 525,000 people have signed up for Veganuary - a non-profit movement that encourages people across the globe to take the pledge to try vegan for January. This has broken sign-up records only just days into January, surpassing last year’s total sign-ups of 400 000.

Clicks, South Africa’s largest retail pharmacy chain, has opened its 600th pharmacy at Nicolway Shopping Centre in Bryanston, Johannesburg. This forms part of the group’s long-term goal to expand its national footprint to 900 stores in South Africa, with a pharmacy operating in every store.

Pick n Pay has launched a new 100% recycled RPET bag to help raise funds for the ‘Save our Beach Huts’ – a project aimed at restoring the 36 beach huts in Muizenberg and St James that are strongly rooted in Cape Town’s heritage.

A Mpumalanga recycling project has received acclaim for improving the lives and livelihoods of Ermelo community members while making a positive difference to the environment.

Pharmacy, health and beauty retailer Clicks has opened its 750th store at the Cape Quarter in Green Point, Cape Town.

Starbucks has proudly taken up occupancy in Pretoria’s brand-new Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre, which opened on 26 November.

A brand new Builders store is opening its doors at Cresta Shopping Centre on November 26, 2020. The first branch to open within a super-regional mall, Builders Cresta will offer the full Builders Express range of products and services the brand is trusted for including a garden centre and a paint tinting and mixing counter.

Woolworths has announced that an additional 120 stores are now single-use plastic shopping bag free, increasing their single use plastic shopping bag free stores to 145 nationally.