Shoprite champions affordable protein with new frozen fish range

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How can families buy the nutritionally rich food their bodies need, when rising living costs make it increasingly difficult to do so? That’s a challenge Shoprite is helping to overcome with four new additions to its Cape Point range of frozen fish. The Household Affordability Index highlights how harsh economic realities force families to prioritise foods like maize meal, rice, cake flour and sugar, which fill stomachs but don’t properly nourish bodies. Nutritionally … Read more

Shoprite Next Capital launched to further develop SMME partners

Maude Modise, Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, Joseph Bronn

The Shoprite Group has launched Shoprite Next Capital, a business division dedicated to capacitate and grow commercially-viable SMMEs to further the Group’s continued efforts to give small suppliers access to its consumer market. ALSO READ: Shoprite donates R500K of food, continues to serve 9 000 meals in KZN daily As drivers of growth, job creation … Read more

Shoprite and Checkers announces voluntary recall of 170g cans of Cape Point Light Meat Shredded Tuna in Water

Cape Point Light Meat Shredded Tuna in Water

As a precaution, Shoprite and Checkers is initiating a voluntary recall of 170g cans of Cape Point Light Meat Shredded Tuna in Water due to the possibility of cans with defective double seams. To date, we have not received any complaints and this action is being taken out of an abundance of caution. The voluntary … Read more

Shoprite quick to support those affected by KZN floods

Shoprite KZN Floods

Following yesterday’s heavy downpours in parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Shoprite acted swiftly to bring relief to affected communities by dispatching three of its Mobile Soup Kitchens to alleviate hunger on the ground. With a fourth Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen on route, they will continue to serve warm and nutritious meals to those displaced and affected by … Read more

A 26-year-old entrepreneur supplies canned chicken feet and necks to Shoprite

canned chicken feet and necks Shoprite

Tin Stuf, a canning company based in Limpopo, is selling canned chicken feet and necks at Shoprite stores around the country. But the journey to this point has been one of immense hard work – and personal tragedy. ALSO READ: Covid-19 relief grants now at every Shoprite, Checkers and Usave till The business is the … Read more

Covid-19 relief grants now at every Shoprite, Checkers and Usave till

R350 Covid-19 relief grant

The over 10 million unemployed South Africans benefitting from the R350 Covid-19 relief grant will now have greater accessibility as the Shoprite Group has stepped in to make grant payments available at its 1 286 supermarkets across South Africa. Following the extension of the grant for another 12 months, customers can now access it at … Read more

Shoprite’s first female truck driver helps hundreds more take the driver’s seat

Nomusa Caroline Hlongwane Shoprite

Nomusa Caroline Hlongwane (59), who blazed a trail as the Shoprite Group’s first female driver, is now training the next generation of the Shoprite Group’s highly-skilled team of truck drivers. Hlongwane, who initially had her eye on becoming a teacher, started her truck driving career in 1990 and joined the Group in 2007. ALSO READ: … Read more