Pick n Pay is piloting a new packaging-free zone. The ‘pick and weigh’ shopping experience will provide customers with the opportunity to purchase a wide range of quality products without any product packaging.

Food Lover’s Market, South Africa’s leading fresh produce retailer, today confirmed its continued commitment to a plastic-free shopping experience with the announcement that it has banned plastic bags in all national corporate stores as of 01 December 2019 and will only be offering paper bags, boxes and Food Lover’s Market canvas bags. This is after the successful implementation of paper straws in 2018 and the positive response to the implementation of a ban on plastic bags in Western Cape stores during 2019.

This week, Checkers opened a new flagship store - this time in the upmarket suburb of Constantia. This is no store refresh, either - it’s been built brand new from the ground up for the Constantia Emporium shopping centre.

Amazon on Monday said it plans to open its first new brand of grocery store in California next year, as it amps up its ambitious push to become a bigger name in food.

A new rooftop solar PV (photovoltaic) installation at the Shoprite Group’s Gordon’s Bay Mall is expected to generate more than 720 000 kWh per annum, amounting to about a third of the centre's total electricity use.

Tesco has signed up for a project that will see it source green electricity directly from wind farms, solar farms and solar panels on its own stores.

Moolman Group, in partnership with Twin City Developments and Vuno Developments, is proud to bring convenience to the township of Katlehong – with the opening of the much-anticipated Sam Ntuli Mall on 31 October 2019.

Pick n Pay's investment in its "new generation" stores is part of a turnaround strategy initiated by CEO Richard Brasher when he took the reins in 2013, but the jury is still out on whether these stores can help the retailer win market share.

The people of Mitchells Plain in Cape Town are set to reap the yummy goodness of 24-hour convenience at the brand-new Engen Watergate Convenience Centre, which officially launched on 24 October 2019.

Richard Brasher, the chief executive of Pick n Pay, on Thursday opened the refurbished On Nicol store, in Johannesburg, strengthening the retailer’s Next Generation store concept as aims to attract more affluent consumers as retailers fight for market share intensifies.

When traveling around South Africa – be it in urban or rural areas – it is often said tongue-in-cheek, that South Africa’s national flower is the plastic bag.

Checkers Hyper revealed its state-of-the-art flagship store in Sandton City this morning (26/09/2019), complete with chocolatier bar, an open-flame pizza oven, an in-store Kauai and an extensive range of innovative new products.