UK books and stationery retailer WH Smith has announced plans to acquire InMotion, a US travel retailer, for $198 million. The transaction marks a significant step in WH Smith's international travel growth strategy. 31 Oct 2018
NEWSWATCH: A set of mugs engraved with the phrases 'the maid' and 'the gardener' sold at a Pick n Pay store has sparked outrage on social media, with members of the public describing them as offensive and reminiscent of apartheid. 31 Oct 2018
Pick n Pay's interim results showed that the retailer delivered its strongest six-month trade performance, measured by volume, in five years. In a challenging trading environment, it recorded a 6.4% increase in turnover to R41.2 billion from R38.8bn in the corresponding period last year. Like-for-like turnover rose by 3.8%. 23 Oct 2018
Stuart Bird, who has been CEO of Mr Price Group since August 2010 and an executive director since September 2006, will be retiring at the end of the year. 18 Oct 2018
Pick n Pay has announced a host of enhancements to its popular rewards programme, including a partnership with BP service stations that allows Smart Shopper members to earn points when refueling. 16 Oct 2018
NEWSWATCH: US retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy and plans to close almost 150 stores. 16 Oct 2018
Kitchen and homeware retailer Yuppiechef opened the doors to its new flagship store in Cape Town's V&A Waterfront on 1 October. The look and feel of the company's third brick and mortar space echoes that of the first two - industrial, yet modern and polished with a premium selection of products to delight cooks and foodies. 15 Oct 2018
Edcon, South Africa's largest non-food retailer, has officially announced the launch of Edgars Home. The new store concept replaces the Boardmans brand, and will be rolled out with a refreshed look and feel in the Edgars network as both stand-alone and shop-in-shop formats. 12 Oct 2018
Vikesh Ramsunder will step into the role of an executive director and group CEO at Clicks Group with effect from 1 January 2019, succeeding David Kneale who has led the group since 2006. 3 Oct 2018
Pick n Pay's spaza modernisation programme has helped local entrepreneurs Armien and Yasmina Adams open their Something Nice Market in Blue Downs, Cape Town. The opening of Something Nice marks the third store modernisation in the Western Cape; 14 have already opened in Gauteng, where the programme was first piloted in 2016. 27 Sep 2018
French home improvement retailer Leroy Merlin is preparing to open its first store on the African continent in Edenvale, Gauteng on Friday, 28 September 2018. 26 Sep 2018
Clover SA has partnered with Bluegrass Digital to rebuild its corporate B2B and B2C website. The company has been consolidating its corporate digital assets onto a single technology stack and has also migrated all the Clover websites to the Cloud on Microsoft Azure. 25 Sep 2018
British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer, Tesco, has launched a new discount chain called Jack's that's pegged to rival German discounters Aldi and Lidl. 20 Sep 2018
South African retail chain, Toys R Us and Babies R Us SA, is expanding its African footprint with a new store opening in Botswana set for October. 5 Sep 2018
Department stores were once seen as innovative. They stocked wide ranges of goods - Noel Coward once bought an alligator from Harrods. It was Harry Gordon Selfridge who coined the phrase "the customer is always right". Stores rewarded customer loyalty by providing exclusive credit via store cards. Little by little, all this eroded. 24 Aug 2018
Twenty-year-old Sakhile Maseko is the founder of Aumax, a small business that sells luxury products such as watches directly to South African consumers using Facebook. The startup also offers a 'try before you buy' experience of cash on delivery. Delivery itself happens a maximum of 24 hours after an order is placed. 17 Aug 2018
Online wine retailer Cybercellar has launched a new wine subscription service called Liquid Social, allowing customers to purchase a package of wine which is delivered to them on a monthly or quarterly basis. 14 Aug 2018
In an effort to reduce packaging waste, Woolworths is piloting an integrated reverse vending machine in its flagship green store, Woolworths Palmyra in Claremont. Takeaway paper coffee cups with barcodes, glass and tin containers, Tetrapak packaging, and plastic bottles and containers up to the 2.25 litre size are all accepted by the machine for recycling. 8 Aug 2018
This August, Clicks celebrates fifty years of trading since launching in Cape Town in 1968. Becoming one of South Africa's foremost health and beauty retailers, Clicks has since expanded to more than 650 stores and over 500 in-store pharmacies across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. 6 Aug 2018
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