{"id":12177,"date":"2022-11-04T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2023-09-28T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:34:08","slug":"takealot-moving-into-townships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/?p=12177","title":{"rendered":"TAKEALOT EXPANDING INTO TOWNSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Takealot Group, which<\/strong>&nbsp;includes South Africa\u2019s biggest e-commerce retailer Takealot.com, is pushing further into townships and growing its new grocery partnership to defend its market share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition is expected to intensify following a report e-commerce giant Amazon.com&nbsp;will launch locally in the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takealot CEO Mamongae Mahlare said the group\u2019s delivery network and local appeal would ensure it competed at strength as a homegrown South African business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Group will be expanding it&#8217;s footprint to far-flung areas as remote as Lusikisiki and all others in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E-commerce\u2019s share of South Africa\u2019s total retail sales more than tripled to around 5% from 2019 to 2021, according to Euromonitor International, but it lags behind many developing nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takealot is invested in increasing penetration and take-up of its businesses, including on-demand food delivery Mr D Food which has already expanded into townships and is progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr D Food also entered the on-demand fresh grocery sector in partnership with grocery retailer Pick n Pay in August, to cash in on fast-growing demand for buying essentials online, a trend that has been boosted by pandemic lockdowns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOURCE: REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takealot Group, which&nbsp;includes South Africa\u2019s biggest e-commerce retailer Takealot.com, is pushing further into townships and growing its new grocery partnership&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[977,976,975,362],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-development","tag-amazon-africa","tag-mamongae-mahlare","tag-takealot","tag-township-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12225,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/12225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}