SOUTH African retailer Pick and Pay has entered into a deal with online service provider M-Web to develop, maintain and host its new online home shopping site. Pick and Pay said the deal with M-Web formed part of its e-commerce strategy which entailed a planned launch for the group’s new shopping site on the Internet in early 2001. The retailer said the tie-up would lead to a high presence of of its online service through M-web’s portal, which has a current user base of more than 800000 users. – Reuters