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South Africa - Store Visits 


Our store visit reports feature floor plans, store photos and full commentary written by our team of international retail experts. Dozens of reports are made every year of stores that feature new concepts in food and grocery retail.

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Store of the month: May 2023: Checkers, Paarl, South Africa
3/05/2023
See inside our pick for May’s store of the month, Checkers in Paarl, South Africa. It features many innovative and creative display solutions and a strong emphasis on fresh food, bringing excitement to the shopping experience.
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Presentations

Food Lover’s Market, Cape Town, South Africa
09/08/2016
Food Lover’s Market meets the needs of ‘foodies’ looking for high quality products, focusing on fresh ranges, fruits and vegetables, counters and food-for-now to differentiate itself from rivals in South Africa.
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Shoprite USave, Cape Town, South Africa
22/07/2016
USave is a no-frills discounter that aims to meet the needs of low income shoppers. Stores carry a range of about 1,500 SKUs, predominantly branded products, focused on key everyday needs.
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Woolworths (South Africa), Cape Town, South Africa
19/07/2016
Woolworths Waterstone is a flagship store that represents the retailer’s strong intent to build a forceful presence in grocery retailing and provide a differentiated offer for shoppers.
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Makro Montague Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
09/05/2016
We visited Makro Montague Gardens in Cape Town to see how the fascia is growing its sales and shopper numbers, while simultaneously implementing a multichannel strategy against the backdrop of an increasingly competitive South African market.
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Pick n Pay Kenilworth Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
06/05/2016
Pick n Pay Kenilworth Centre is one of the retailer’s ‘Next Generation’ stores, which in its 2016 full year results it highlighted the format as bringing ‘together improvements in store design, space allocation, product range, store operations, product replenishment and customer service’.
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SPAR (South Africa), Cape Town, South Africa
03/05/2016
SPAR (South Africa) is competing strongly in a challenging market. It is winning in local areas by empowering individual store owners to better target shoppers in their vicinity and supporting them with great private label ranges and flexible format development.
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Engen, Cape Town, South Africa
09/06/2014
Engen’s forecourt store, on a major road artery in and out of Cape Town, combines five offers and offers shoppers a range of options to meet their food-to-go, food-for-now and food-for-later needs.
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SPAR, Cape Town: a day with the retailer
01/05/2014
As part of our day with SPAR in Cape Town we saw how the retailer is using a multi-format strategy and empowering owners to better target shoppers in their stores’ vicinity and differentiate itself from competitors.
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Pick n Pay, Johannesburg, South Africa
01/05/2014
We visited two Pick n Pay stores in Johannesburg to see how the retailer is taking different approaches to its format development, providing breadth of range in its hypermarket and celebrating food, through counters and food-for-now, at one of its supermarkets.
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Massmart: a day with the retailer
04/04/2014
We visited four Massmart stores in Johannesburg to understand how the retailer is implementing its multichannel, multi-format strategy in the increasingly competitive South African market. 
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Store of the month: May 2023: Checkers, Paarl, South Africa
3/05/2023
See inside our pick for May’s store of the month, Checkers in Paarl, South Africa. It features many innovative and creative display solutions and a strong emphasis on fresh food, bringing excitement to the shopping experience.
Watch here

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See all our store visit videos here.