While retailers are keen to tout the success of on-demand delivery services, they’re reticent on details of driver legality and employment precarity

With its shares at a 15-year low, Spar denies market rumours that it’s facing an existential cash crunch

The latest retail results reveal more about businesses than consumers: when growth disappears, execution matters

An unforgiving marketplace and no-holds-barred competition mean Sean Summers’ initial recovery timeframe now looks wildly optimistic

The retailer has had to dig itself out of a deep financial hole, but unions are unwilling to play nice after years of management missteps

Walmart is set to open its first branded store in South Africa. It’s not a fresh arrival so much as a bold expansion

Pick n Pay has pushed out a full recovery to 2028, but the retailer is a far cry from the debt-ridden wreck of a year ago

Boxer has endured something of a Cinderella status since it was acquired by Pick n Pay back in 2002. Its management kept a low profile at results presentations for most of the…

The market couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for Pick n Pay’s first-half results yesterday, with the shares opening 2.5% higher only to close flat. While its Boxer asset is…

Of all the reasons for Pick n Pay’s existential challenges, few analysts would have tagged lack of involvement by the Ackerman family as one. Most would reckon there’d been far…

It was a big number bonanza last week, when Boxer invited South Africa’s analyst community for a six-hour tinkerfest under the retailer’s metaphorical hood, ahead of its listing…

When you’re drowning in debt and every day represents another few million rands in crippling interest charges or another store closure, it’s probably difficult to stop long…

A new listing on the JSE is about as rare these days as an honest ANC politician. So you’d think any company going public would want to make it, well, as public as possible.…