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‘Got money on my mind’: Pick n Pay’s ad features US rapper Rick Ross (left), local comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout (right) and DJ Khaled ‘s tune.

An indigestible helping of hype

If stores must wheel out celebs to make us buy what we can’t afford, make it Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart

Excessive: Mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater shareholders voted against the proposed R55.6  million payment for chief executive Neal Froneman. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

New law to address ‘feeding frenzy’ at listed companies

Sibanye-Stillwater, which is at the centre of the debate on excessive pay for executives, has had its remuneration report rejected three years in a row

About 5 000 farmers supply fresh produce to the Joburg market. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Call for reform and pricing transparency in South Africa’s fresh produce markets

The Competition Commission has said that practises by fertiliser, agrochemical and seed companies may also distort competition

Spar chief executive Angelo Swartz

Spar looks to delivery as profits decline

The grocery retailer grew online volumes by 463%, albeit from a low base

Checkers has successfully capitalised on their online offerings, becoming a leader within their respective category.

Online shopping is booming in South Africa

Consumers are increasingly turning to online supermarkets to buy essential goods

Seven budget-friendly family vacation activities: How Old Mutual Rewards makes it possible

Enhance your holiday experience without straining your finances. Old Mutual Rewards helps you to stretch both your imagination and your hard-earned Rands further

Woolworths Food CEO Zyda Rylands will leave the company in August.

Continuity is the recipe for success at Woolworths Food

Analysts say the market can rest easy knowing that the popular retailer’s food section is in good hands

In a bid to decrease costs, producers may either reduce the quantity of foods and beverages or they may make the product with cheaper ingredients. Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images

Vegetable and other food prices remain high

The M&G’s basic food basket survey shows that supermarket prices don’t always drop when those at fresh produce markets do

Major JSE–listed clothing retailers have rejected the department of employment and labour concerns that they are “unwittingly” supporting “inhumane and sweatshop conditions” in the clothing and textile sector in KwaZulu-Natal, insisting that they adhere to regulations. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

JSE-listed clothing retailers want labour department to shut down sweatshops

The South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union has said people are working from 10 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week for as little as R120 to R200 a week

Top chefs: Charne Sampson, Jackie Cameron, Megin Meikle, Carla Schulze, Ronel De Jager, Motheba Makhetha and Eleanor Coetzee.

Meet the all-female lineup of chefs who’ll be cooking at the 2023 Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards

They have reached the top of their game, and will inspire more women to rise through the ranks

Call to switch to cage free egg farming

There are pros and cons to cage free and free range farming when it comes to disease control and the bottom line

Classic: Sean Summers returns

Pick n Pay: Summers is back, but will the Ackermans check out?

The prodigal son’s return may usher in a new era for the retailer, which has languished under the Ackerman family’s control

Motivated: Farmers such as Angus Williamson work in a brutal environment but they carry on because they love what they do

Farm to fork: Factors fuelling food price hikes

Farmers have been hard hit by everything from load-shedding to transport costs and supermarkets say they have not passed the costs of running generators on to battling consumers

Bargain: Prices at the Durban Fresh Produce Market are about two to three times lower than those bought at retailers such as Woolworths, Spar, Pick n Pay and Checkers. (Rogan Ward)

Pick n Pay, Woolworths and Checkers charge up to 300% more for fresh produce

Fresh produce markets in cities around the country provide people with a cheaper shopping alternative, but not many cash-strapped households are aware of the benefits of cutting…

Consumers are angry that the government is treating them like a cash cow instead of fighting corruption and improving its fiscal discipline. File photo by Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘Rocket and feather’ food prices signal inadequate competition – watchdog

In its latest essential food pricing monitoring report, the Competition Commission notes consumer prices were slow to come down despite easing inflation. Blame load-shedding?

Consumers are choosing to buy sustainably sourced fish

Retailers and suppliers are heeding the call for sustainable seafood products

Departure of CFO ‘inevitable’ as Mr Price counts its costs

The retailer has struggled amid more intense competition and as consumers continue to feel the pinch

Woolworths’s turnover in South Africa was around R85 billion last year. It is the preferred store for the middle class for clothes and food. (Halden Krog/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Woolies’s gay pride range: solidarity or profit?

Supporting the LGBTIQA+ community involves more than merely putting rainbows on clothes

The key drivers of price growth in July were food and non-alcoholic beverages (up 5.7% and contributing 1.0 percentage points). Photo: Supplied

Food producers will continue to pass on costs to consumers

Consumers must brace for more food price increases as retailers battle with input costs

Delivery service: Amazon centre in London. The pandemic disrupted the analogue business models of South African retailers to the online world. Amazon is an even bigger disruptor lying in wait. Photo: Getty Images

Amazon to eat Woolworths, Shoprite and Takealot lunch?

The pandemic may have disrupted the analogue business models of South African retailers to the online world. Amazon, unlike Walmart, is possibly an even bigger disruptor lying in…