The Checkers Gauteng division surprised medical personnel and healthcare workers at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital with a performance by members of the world-renowned Soweto Gospel Choir - observing all Covid-19 protocols.

In a year punctuated by an economic meltdown, the Shoprite Group’s commitment to its small suppliers have enabled these businesses to access new consumer markets and to retain much-needed jobs.

Checkers this week launched a new television commercial to highlight the R1 billion it has saved customers over the past year.

The Shoprite Group has subsidised over 150 million R5 deli meals since 2017 and sold 63 million R4.99 bread loaves in the past financial year as it continues to make sure that someone with just R5 in their pocket can afford to eat.

The Shoprite Group is launching a rewards programme for its Shopite branded stores on Monday 12 October 2020. The new Shoprite Xtra Savings card will benefit customers with immediate cash savings and launches a year after the Checkers Xtra Savings rewards programme, with more than 5 million customers signed up for and which put more than a R1bn back in the pocket of consumers through savings and discounts in the last year.

Checkers this week released Odd Bins 2020 - a limited edition 2014 merlot - to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its exclusive range of limited edition vintages sourced from local wine estates.

With more than 100 million YouTube views, Master KG and Nomcebo’s hit single Jerusalema not only has dancers worldwide on their feet, but the #JerusalemaChallenge also provided Raymond Seema with the perfect occasion to propose to his partner, Dineo Mashilo, outside Shoprite Potgietersrus.

Checkers Little Garden is back by popular demand, with millions of locally produced seedling kits that created employment for more than 150 people.

Shoprite has launched its new Money Market Account, a free transactional account to give customers more ways to save, send or spend their money.

The Covid-19 outbreak caused Zakhele Tshabalala to rethink where he proposed to his girlfriend, Moletalo Baholo, so instead of popping the question at dinner in front of family and friends he recently got down on one knee at the Shoprite Group’s distribution centre in Centurion.

Retail is her passion and has been from the day she started as a casual at a Shoprite supermarket in Mitchells Plain aged 16.

Checkers has launched its exclusive on-demand one-hour grocery delivery service named Sixty60. It is South Africa’s first 60-minute grocery delivery service from a supermarket chain, as Checkers relentlessly innovates to respond to customers’ demands for hyper-convenience.