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Call to switch to cage free egg farming

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

Motivated: Farmers such as Angus Williamson work in a brutal environment but they carry on because they love what they do

Farm to fork: Factors fuelling food price hikes

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

Maeve Commins regularly shops around for fresh food at discounted prices and freezes it to save money every month. Photo: Lyse Comins

Middle income consumers chase food bargains

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

(Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pepsi’s Pioneer acquisition is not healthy

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

The Competition Commission inquiry found that the ‘vast majority’ of Shoprite and Spar leases and the ‘majority’ of Pick n Pay leases have exclusivity provisions. (Oupa nkosi/M&G)

Shopping malls are ‘killing’ independent retailers

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

Shoprite delivers strong sales in SA market

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

Giant retail grocers in new probe

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

From a consumer price perspective, we are unlikely to see a sustained surge in meat prices

Major supermarkets exposed in meat-label scandal

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

Competition Tribunal to hear Shoprite merger

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