Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme centered on encouraging wholesome habits for Discovery medical support members, has ended a decade-long well being advantages partnership with embattled retailer Decide n Pay.
As a substitute, it has began a brand new partnership with Decide n Pay’s arch rival, Shoprite Holdings-owned Checkers, the operator of the favored Checkers Sixty60 on-demand grocery supply service.
“On 1 September 2024, the Vitality HealthyFood profit can be up to date to incorporate Checkers and Checkers Sixty60 alongside Woolworths in retailer and on-line, Woolies app and Woolies Sprint. Sadly, we’ll be saying farewell to Decide n Pay as a HealthyFood associate,” learn an e-mail to Discovery Vitality members on Wednesday afternoon.
Discovery instructed TechCentral that the Vitality HealthyFood profit will proceed at Decide n Pay till 31 August. This contains on-line orders by way of Decide n Pay Asap!, a direct competitor to Sixty60.
Discovery introduced its new partnership with Checkers in September 2023. On the time, it cited “adjustments to shifting procuring habits” as its cause for updating the HealthyFood advantages to “give members the selection of an in-store and a web-based grocery associate”.
“Grocery supply has grow to be wildly in style, with a marked enhance within the variety of households that use a mixture of in-store and on-line channels to purchase groceries. This 12 months (2023), 34% of Vitality members who ordered groceries on-line did so at the least weekly, testomony to the growing reliance on on-line grocery buying as a result of comfort it presents,” Discovery Vitality mentioned in an announcement on the time.
Checkers Sixty60 is by far the most well-liked grocery supply platform in South Africa, having grown gross sales by 58% year-on-year within the 52 weeks to end-June 2024, in response to an operational replace from Shoprite Holdings this week.
Decide n Pray
In the meantime, constructive on-line gross sales progress of 75% for the 52 weeks ended 25 February 2024 at Decide n Pay was certainly one of few standouts in an in any other case bleak set of outcomes. The group scrapped its dividend after reporting a loss after tax of R3.2-billion. The buying and selling loss within the Decide n Pay shops enterprise got here to R1.5-billion in comparison with a buying and selling revenue of R1.3-billion a 12 months earlier than, it mentioned.
Decide n Pay has since launched into a two-step recapitalisation plan, which features a rights provide. It additionally plans to listing better-performing Boxer individually to “unlock the worth of the Boxer asset for Decide n Pay and its shareholders”.
“Discovery Vitality appreciates the longstanding relationship with Decide n Pay that has enabled Vitality members to get rewarded for his or her HealthyFood decisions. Discovery and Decide n Pay will proceed to associate in different respects, together with the flexibility to spend Discovery Miles by selecting Decide n Pay as a reward choice within the Vitality Mall.”
Moneyweb first reported the information about Discovery’s resolution earlier on Thursday. – © 2024 NewsCentral Media
