Shoprite and Glovo team up in Nigeria for new customer offering
Alliance offers a simple, fast and convenient experience for consumers to buy groceries online, with orders being delivered within an hour.
Retail Strategy
Zimbabwe’s Bon Marché spreads its premium-brand wings outside Harare
Bon Marché has typically confined itself to the affluent suburbs of Zimbabwe’s capital. Now it has opened in Marondera in Mashonaland East,
Popular SA grocery home-delivery service enhances brand through toys
Checkers Sixty60 service releases its own range of toys to appeal to children of its growing customer base.
Bricks-and-mortar stores are best for selling refurbished goods
Currently, these products are mostly sold online. But being able to ‘touch and feel’ helps consumers overcome their reticence.
Supermarket chain Carrefour unveils ambitious new plans for Morocco
French retailer and its local Moroccan partner plan to open franchised neighbourhood stores across the North African country.
Africa’s growing retail pharmacy sector attracting foreign investors
Kenyan-based e-health startup, MyDawa, gets US$20-million to grow its footprint in both the online and offline spaces.
Fleet of driverless grocery delivery vehicles takes to the streets
Last-mile delivery to consumers is increasingly high-tech in Europe, where autonomous robot carriers may soon be a regular sight in traffic.
Morocco’s branded coffee shop market is being heavily contested
International coffee shop franchise brands are seeing an opportunity, as research finds Morocco has the most market potential in MENA.
In-store music can increase consumers’ grocery spending by 10% or more
But researchers find that this only applies from Monday to Thursday, when shoppers are tired after a long day at work.
How supermarket price promotions can impact demand for other items
Placing goods that are not on promotion next to ones that are being discounted can have both positive and negative effects.
