The Shoprite Group has launched Shoprite Next Capital, a business division dedicated to capacitate and grow commercially-viable SMMEs to further the Group’s continued efforts to give small suppliers access to its consumer market.

Consumers can expect to save up to 50% on a wide range of essential food and household items during Shoprite’s Big Red Weekend from Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 June 2022.

All four members of the Blaauw family from Wellington will be entering this year’s 30th annual Championship Boerewors competition.

The Shoprite Group became aware of a suspected data compromise, impacting on a specific sub-set of data and which may affect some customers who engaged in money transfers to and within Eswatini and within Namibia and Zambia.

The first ever winner of the Championship Boerewors competition – Tommy Hendriks (74) from Brackenfell – has entered a new recipe for the competition’s 30th anniversary.

Shoprite created 67 new jobs with the opening of its supermarket in Ka-Majosi, Limpopo.

Checkers opened its first new format Checkers Foods supermarket in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, bringing top quality food and exclusive brands to the province.

George Baloyi (57) from Soshanguve – the 2015 winner of the Championship Boerewors competition – has a few tips for aspiring champions who wish to enter their recipes this year.

Shoprite donated ‘garden in a bucket’ starter kits to the community of Mdantsane, in the Eastern Cape, to foster sustainable food security in the area.

Shoprite, in partnership with the Department of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment’s Working on Fire programme, hosted six fire safety workshops for Early Childhood Development (ECD) educators to create fire resilient communities.