The Christmas that South Africa wanted is back on with Shoprite and Checkers extending its affordable prices to the festive season.

 


Shoprite Christmas


icon  Fresh foods

  • A small local supplier baked and hand-decorated more than 138 000 fruit cakes and 132 000 mince pies for Checkers supermarkets.
  • The production of this festive order required more than 80 000kg of ingredients, took approximately 900 hours to complete, and 25km of ribbon was used to decorate the product packaging. 
  • Last year, Checkers sold just short of 35 000kg of Christmas cakes.
  • There are also 26 new Checkers Limited Edition products for the season, including a deboned three-bird roast (deboned duck stuffed with a deboned chicken stuffed with turkey breast).
 

Shoprite Christmas


icon  Meat markets

  • Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets have an extensive range of the best quality traditional roasts -  including boneless brisket, stuffed chicken, gammon (easy carve, bone-in, boneless and maple flavoured), pork belly, leg of lamb and many more - and was the first South African retailer to stock maple infused and easy carve gammons.
  • If the festive meat is stacked on top of each other, it will stand a staggering 36km - more than four times the height of Mount Everest.
 

Shoprite Christmas


icon  Fruit & vegetables

  • Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets are expected to sell more than 600 000 whole watermelons during the festive season, and Checkers expects to sell around 1 million punnets of grapes this summer.
  • Fresh produce for the Shoprite Group’s supermarkets are sourced locally from over 400 growers.
 

Shoprite Christmas


icon  Toys

  • As South Africa’s biggest toy retailer, Shoprite and Checkers will again beat any toy price if a competitor store advertises the identical item at a lower price this festive season. 
  • A third of Shoprite’s annual toy sales take place during the month of December, with soft toys and ride-ons amongst the most popular.
  • Shoprite has a selection of affordable toys available for under R10, under R20, under R30 and under R40.
  • Thabo and Mpumi Motsabi’s Rainbow Dolls - a range of three dolls named Khana, Pula and Nandi - retail at R99.99 each and are available exclusively at Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets nationally.
 
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