Shoprite: Doing good is good for business

Shoprite Group, a retailer, utilised the COP27 agenda as part of its campaign in South Africa to uplift lives every day by pioneering access to the most affordable goods and services, creating economic opportunity and protecting our planet.

Retail is hard, fast, competitive.

And when you are Africa's largest retailer, it is easy to flip past all the good things the business is, and has been doing quietly for years – pre-pandemic, pre-economic downturns, pre-energy crises, pre-political unrest and the knock on fallout of all this.

The Shoprite Group's purpose is to uplift lives every day by pioneering access to the most affordable goods and services, creating economic opportunity and protecting our planet. And that means a constant commitment to innovation, affordability and accessibility.It means working closely with the business to ensure all the great work,...

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