CORPORATE NEWS | 12 August 2025

Last call for Shoprite Group bursaries this year – now with exciting new benefit!

The Shoprite Group is inviting ambitious students to apply for its sought-after bursary programme for the 2025/2026 academic year. Applications are open until 30 September 2025 – the final opportunity this year to benefit from the Group’s investment in future talent.

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Corporate News | Aug 28, 2025
Shoprite Group opens 500th Usave store in SA

The 500th Usave supermarket in South Africa opened in Hopefield, Western Cape today – marking a major milestone in the Shoprite Group’s continued mission to expand access to affordable goods and services in more communities across the country and beyond.

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Corporate News | Aug 26, 2025
KZN local’s transformative 15-year journey to graduation

Two years into a BCom Accounting degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Sashyn Moodley felt his life wasn’t on the right track. “I realised that it wasn’t for me and chose to leave university,” he recalls. That decision would unknowingly change his life and eventually send him to the Shoprite Group’s Home Office in Cape Town.

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Consumer News | Aug 23, 2025
South Africa has a brand-new Boerewors Champion!

Roberto-Rui Agrela, a 33-year-old car salesman from Paarl, has claimed the top spot at the 33rd Shoprite and Checkers Championship Boerewors finale, held at Cabo Beach Club in Cape Town on Saturday 23 August. The air was thick with smoke and spices as experts from the South African Chefs Association (SACA) painstakingly evaluated every detail of the finalists’ freshly made and braaied boerewors. Just as anticipation neared breaking point, Agrela emerged, tongs in hand, as the country’s No.1 boerewors maker - outdoing more than 2 350 hopefuls who entered the competition this year.

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Corporate News | Aug 20, 2025
Checkers is testing SA’s 1st smart trolley – with built-in scanner & automated checkout

Checkers has launched South Africa’s first smart shopping trolley, pioneering a major step towards a frictionless, technology-led in-store experience.

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Brand News | Aug 18, 2025
Jamie Oliver & all-star SA cast search for the Simple Truth

World-renowned chef, restaurateur and healthy food advocate, Jamie Oliver, has returned to South Africa - this time to endorse Simple Truth, Checkers’ private label wellness range.

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CSI - Act For Change | Aug 18, 2025
Bongiwe Mhlongo’s story of hunger, hope and holding on

This Women’s Month, we honour ‘Mama wesizwe’, a woman who proves that even in the most unlikely places, hope can take root and grow.

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CSI - Act For Change | Aug 15, 2025
How a woman-led garden turned into a lifeline for 200 people for Orange Farm community

What began as a determined response to unemployment and food insecurity in Orange Farm in Gauteng has grown into a thriving community-led farming initiative – thanks to the vision and leadership of Zama Ndlovu, the woman behind the Vukasechaba Massive Fresh Produce Co-op.

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Corporate News | Aug 20, 2025
Checkers is testing SA’s 1st smart trolley – with built-in scanner & automated checkout

Checkers has launched South Africa’s first smart shopping trolley, pioneering a major step towards a frictionless, technology-led in-store experience.

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Brand News | Aug 18, 2025
Jamie Oliver & all-star SA cast search for the Simple Truth

World-renowned chef, restaurateur and healthy food advocate, Jamie Oliver, has returned to South Africa - this time to endorse Simple Truth, Checkers’ private label wellness range.

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Consumer News | Jul 3, 2025
Dignity for R5: Shoprite's new toiletries target hygiene inequality

In response to the more than 14 million people in South Africa - one in five - affected by hygiene poverty, Shoprite has expanded its R5 basket of goods to include essential toiletries which retail for just a single coin.

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Consumer News | Jun 18, 2025
Petshop Science partners with Sixty60 for same-day delivery

Petshop Science has partnered with Sixty60, South Africa’s number 1 on-demand delivery service, to offer same-day delivery within precisely scheduled 60-minute timeslots of a wide range of specialised pet food, treats, toys and vet-approved local and international brands.

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Consumer News | May 13, 2025
Blind SA and Checkers Sixty60 collaborate on app accessibility

Blind SA, a leading nonprofit organisation dedicated to advocating for accessibility and inclusion, has been working closely with Checkers to optimise the online shopping experience on the Sixty60 app for blind and partially sighted users.

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CSI - Act For Change | Feb 5, 2025
Shoprite Foundation helps bridge South Africa’s skills gap

Helping to address South Africa’s critical skills gap, the Shoprite Foundation invested over R3 million to equip two fully functional robotics labs at Cingani High School and Soqhayisa Senior Secondary School in Motherwell, Eastern Cape.

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CSI - Act For Change | Nov 18, 2024
Support for 11 new ECD centres as Shoprite expands fight against hunger

Shoprite is expanding its efforts to combat child hunger by extending support to 11 Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in KwaZulu-Natal, directly benefitting over 700 children across Canelands, Cornubia, and Waterloo.

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