Pick N Pay

Reputation matters

Article Mail Guardian Correspondent - 30 May 2012

Should I buy product A or product B? What do I tell my friends when they ask for this kind advice? A company's reputation will sway my vote.

Pick n Pay’s full-year profits fail to meet expectations

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Apr 2012

Pick n Pay has reported a 15% fall in profits after being hit by costs related to its shopper loyalty programme and investments in its supply chain.

Pick n Pay’s chief executive resigns

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Feb 2012

Pick n Pay has announced its CEO Nick Badminton would be leaving the company at the end of February, as it faces an up-hill from US retailer Walmart.

How to grow communal land use

Article Teigue Payne - 3 Feb 2012

Subsistence farmers should be helped to increase yields and find profitable markets, says researcher.

Stores score on pension payday

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Feb 2012

There are moves afoot to overhaul the social grant payout system to make it less cumbersome as some grant recipients wait hours in queues.

Surge in online shopping as SA gets to grips with the e-conomy

Article Zeenat Moorad - 24 Jan 2012

South Africans are becoming more open to the option of online shopping, with a survey reporting a 30% increase in online spending in 2010.

Pick n Pay ups stake in Zimbabwe’s TM Supermarkets

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Dec 2011

Pick n Pay's plans to raise its stake in Zimbabwe's TM Supermarkets has been approved, which forms part of the retailer's African expansion plans.

Pick n Pay commits to transforming its seafood operations by 2015

Article Advertorial Supplement - 28 Oct 2011

Pick n Pay announced its plans to commit to transforming its entire fresh, frozen and canned seafood operations by the end of 2015.

Massmart ready to sacrifice margins for market share

Article Tiisetso Motsoeneng - 25 Aug 2011

Walmart's SA unit Massmart is ready to push down prices and sacrifice margins in pursuit of a bigger market share, its CEO has said.

Walmart public hearings underway

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Jul 2011

Three days of public hearings into the R16.5-billion takeover of Massmart by United States giant Walmart got underway at Parliament on Tuesday.

Pick n Pay retrenchments a result of ‘Walmart invasion’

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jul 2011

Cosatu has expressed "shock" at Pick n Pay's announcement that it is contemplating retrenching about 3 137 workers.

New store makes shopping pleasurable

Article Michelle Nel - 24 Jun 2011

The design for the store is a departure from conventional inverted styles that isolate customers from the outdoors.

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