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Oct 10, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan
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As South African retailers gear up for Black Friday and the festive season, the risk of retail theft increases alongside the projected surge in foot traffic. Photo by Heidi Fin on UnsplashFidelity Services Group, the exclusive partner of Sensormatic in the Southern Hemisphere, is at the forefront of helping retailers mitigate this risk by enhancing security and loss prevention efforts.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan
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Social e-commerce platform, SOLshop has reached its first anniversary with impressive growth and a transformative impact on the country's online shopping landscape. As group buying gains traction in South Africa, SOLshop has emerged as a pioneer, connecting wholesalers and customers in a user-friendly ecosystem that offers daily discounts on hundreds of products.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Lindsey Schutters |Mike Smollan
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Smollan, a global retail specialist representing some of the world’s best loved brands, has acquired a majority stake in Send Me a Sample Limited. Founded in 2018 Send Me a Sample has rapidly expanded as a proprietary technology business creating sustainable personal brand experiences for the way people live and shop today.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan
Advertise your job vacancies 2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Since Amazon.co.za officially went live in South Africa earlier this year, the question everyone has is, 'Can homegrown e-commerce businesses compete against global juggernauts?' Image by andrespradagarcia from Pixabay As described by World Wide Worx in its Online Retail in South Africa 2024 report, Amazon’s introduction on 7 May was “probably the most momentous event in the local e-commerce industry since the launch of...
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan |Lindsey Schutters
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In its Statistical Release for Retail Trade Sales for January 2024, Stats SA reported that total retail for 2023 had reached R1.153tn. According to the Online Retail in South Africa 2024 report, released by World Wide Worx in partnership with Mastercard, Peach Payments and Ask Afrika earlier this year, online sales have now comfortably passed the 5% mark of contribution to total retail.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan |Ciaran McKivergan
In an era where brands must evolve to thrive, Dentsu is proud to announce the release of our latest global report, “The Era of the Insight to Foresight Pivot.” This insightful and compelling report outlines the critical shift brands must make to succeed in the 2030s, presenting consumers with emotive and instinctive solutions that will determine not only their brand preference but also whether a brand even crosses their radar in an AI-filtered and culturally reshaped reality.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan
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DHL has released the first outcome of its global Online Shopper Trends Report 2024, providing valuable insights into the behaviour of online shoppers. The initial chapter highlights trends shaping today’s e-commerce landscape, based on a survey of consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Results show a rising popularity of social commerce, with some 75% of online shoppers from SSA using their smartphone as their primary device for purchasing.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan |Lindsey Schutters |Danette Breitenbach |Rick Vanover
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South African consumer companies must consider six key imperatives to shrink the consumer trust deficit. Source: © 123rf 123rf PwC South Africa’s Voice of the Consumer Survey 2024: South African findings report found six key imperatives to shrink the consumer trust deficit“The bad news is there’s a widening gap between the trust that executives think consumers place in their companies and the trust that consumers have in them.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Mike Smollan |Linda Saunders |Craig Blignaut |Mariëtte Frazer
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With a unique landscape marked by diverse consumer needs, a burgeoning youth population, growing levels of technology adoption, and a rapidly changing economic environment, Africa’s retail sector is ripe for innovation. Retailers across the continent are looking for innovative ways to stay ahead and increasingly leaning into Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a pivotal technological asset to carve out competitive edges.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Lindsey Schutters |Mike Smollan |Karabo Ledwaba
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Nearly half of the world’s population (3.6 billion people) use messaging apps. There are more than 600 million conversations between people and businesses every day on Meta platforms, WeChat has over one billion users in China, and 97% of the population in South Korea use KakaoTalk to communicate.
