Two of SA’s biggest supermarket chains have chosen solar energy alternatives as they strive to beat a buckling national power grid, save costs and address climate change. The Shoprite group said it added 22 new solar photovoltaic (PV)…
Woolworths and Pick n Pay are removing TRESemmé products from their shelves after a public outcry over an offensive hair product advertisement posted by health and beauty retailer Clicks. “Given the recent concern about the language used…
The ongoing lockdown, now under risk-adjusted alert level three, has brought to the “public eye” the gravity of urban food insecurity ravaging millions of the urban poor and working class in South African townships and informal…
Woolworths has had to temporarily close four stores in Cape Town this week. The retailer closed three of its grocery stores in Cape Town’s northern suburbs on Monday after a staff member who visited all three stores tested positive for…
Port Elizabeth’s Access Park Woolworths food store reopened its doors on Monday after four workers tested positive for Covid-19. The store — just off Buffelsfontein Road — temporarily closed its doors at the weekend, along with a Shoprite…
A second Port Elizabeth Woolworths Foods store employee has tested positive for Covid-19. Woolworths spokesperson Kirsten Hewett said the retailer had since decided to close the store. “Last night we were notified that another member of…
Cooked food from South African supermarkets like Woolworths, Pick n Pay and Checkers are not regarded as essential goods, and trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel has again called for their hot-food sections to be closed. Speaking at…
A year after admitting there were striking similarities between Ubuntu Baba’s baby carriers and its own‚ Woolworths is again facing controversy‚ this time over sock designs. Sexy Socks founder Dave Hutchison wrote in a Facebook post on…
From Times Live: DA leader Mmusi Maimane has been dominating Twitter trends after a video of him saying 44 out of 10 South Africans are without jobs went viral. Thanks to the superpowers of Woolworths water‚ Maimane was able to correct…
The Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) has instructed Woolworths to change the labelling on some of its pork product packaging. On the front of the packages of the company’s prepared pork products‚ Woolworths states that it contains “100%…
A South African vlogger and Facebook user who calls himself Devdondidit found a loaf of bread at Woolworths for R54 – and decided to make a video about it. In the video‚ discussing the price‚ he asks: “Did Jesus bake this bread?” He says…
Woolworths is recalling a frozen savoury rice product as a precaution after a listeria outbreak in Europe. Woolworths Frozen Savoury Rice‚ which is sourced from Belgium‚ contains frozen sweetcorn from the Greenyard Factory in Hungary –…
It is too early to tell whether firebombs planted in Woolworths outlets in Durban malls bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack. An “incendiary device” found hidden in the Woolworths store in the Gateway mall on Saturday – the second in…
