Shoprite Holdings’ widespread Checkers Sixty60 on-demand buying service grew gross sales within the first half of its 2025 monetary 12 months by 47.1%.
Whereas nonetheless representing sturdy progress for the e-commerce platform, it does mark a slowdown in gross sales from a 12 months in the past, when year-on-year progress was 63.1%.
Maybe of extra concern to Shoprite is that the expansion at Sixty60 is now beneath the most up-to-date progress numbers reported by Choose n Pay’ asap! on-demand supply service, which within the 26 weeks ended 25 August 2024 noticed a 60.6% enchancment in gross sales, albeit probably off a smaller income base.
As Checkers Sixty60 grows in measurement, sustaining the excessive progress charges seen up to now will develop into tougher, particularly as competitors from rivals like Choose n Pay intensifies.
12 months on 12 months, Checkers elevated the variety of shops it makes use of to service Sixty60 prospects from 505 to 601.
Shoprite doesn’t disclose Checkers Sixty60 gross sales numbers, however it mentioned they continue to be lower than 10% of the group’s consolidated sale of merchandise, suggesting there’s nonetheless loads of room for progress.
Final October, Shoprite purchased an extra 50% of Pingo Supply, making it a completely owned subsidiary that serves as its last-mile logistics supplier.
“This enterprise mixture ensured that the group improved and secured the on-demand capabilities of its Checkers Sixty60 grocery supply providing.”
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Pingo contributed income of R650-million and a revenue of R49-million because the acquisition date of 25 October 2024.
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In a press release alongside the interim outcomes, Shoprite Holdings CEO Pieter Engelbrecht mentioned: “Our ShopriteX digital group, along with our Checkers retailer operations and Pingo Supply group, efficiently delivered tens of millions of orders over the six months whereas concurrently re-platforming our Checkers Sixty60 on-demand grocery supply tech stack with a view to improve performance and, most notably, incorporate same-day common merchandise supply to our on-demand supply – an enormously advanced process carried out forward of Black Friday and Christmas commerce.” — © 2025 NewsCentral Media
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