Following the weekend’s flash floods in the Eastern Cape, the Shoprite Group acted swiftly to bring relief to affected community members in East London. The Group immediately dispatched a Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen. The Mobile Soup Kitchen continues to serve warm meals to those displaced and affected by the floods and will remain in the affected area for as long as necessary.

The Shoprite Group's tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Shoprite opened the doors to its new supermarket at the Capital Centre in Pietermaritzburg on Friday, 10 December 2021.

A small KwaZulu-Natal company's perseverance has paid off, and its locally-produced range of dhal products are now listed in 25 Shoprite and Checkers stores.

The Shoprite Group has entered into a joint venture with its existing Checkers Sixty60 logistics partner, the RTT Group in which both parties will own 50%. The transaction follows on from the rapid growth of Shoprite’s pioneering on-demand grocery solution Checkers Sixty60 in which RTT On-Demand, a division of the RTT Group, has played a pivotal role in last-mile logistics.

After a major refurbishment, Checkers Hermanus officially relaunched its state-of-the-art supermarket on Thursday, 9 December 2021, creating 40 new jobs.

An order from Checkers for bakery goods provided a lifeline and growth opportunity to a long-established bakery whose orders came to an abrupt stop during lockdown.

Checkers, the first South African supermarket to launch a pet shop, has opened its 10th Petshop Science store in just seven months and will have 12 standalone stores by the end of the year.

The Shoprite Group is the 2021 Graduate Employer of Choice at the 2021 GradStar Student Choice Awards.

The Shoprite Group unveiled its third new store format in one week, with the launch of a standalone pharmacy in Willowbridge Village called MediRite Plus.

An order from Checkers for bakery goods provided a lifeline and growth opportunity to a long-established bakery whose orders came to an abrupt stop during lockdown.

Customer demands for Checkers supermarkets in their neighbourhoods inspired the newly launched, smaller format Checkers Foods which today opened its first store in Gauteng.