Shoprite Checkers

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

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

The poor are assisted by taxpayers, the rich don’t feel it, but the middle class slips through through the gap in tough economic times

The move may provide a short-term economic boost, but it also has long-term health costs

The Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Inquiry has found national supermarket chains are putting small, independent players out of business

South Africa’s largest grocer saw its local operations increase sales by 10.3% during the quarter

The Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery retail sector goes beyond exclusive property clauses.

More than 80 meat products sold by major South African retailers contain water buffalo and donkey, the City Press has reported.

The Competition Tribunal will weigh up a transaction in which Shoprite Checkers intends to acquire the shareholding in Metcash Seven Eleven.