Shoprite staring down a R1bn-plus annual diesel bill
Putting the supermarket giant's diesel generator bill in context.
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Putting the supermarket giant's diesel generator bill in context.
The past few months have had all the ingredients for disaster, yet Bidcorp has delivered results that are more than slightly palatable.
A record Black Friday and festive season helped Shoprite deliver double-digit first-half sales growth as it spent half a billion rand to keep the lights on during one of SA’s worst periods of load shedding yet.
Group spent R560m on diesel to keep stores trading during load shedding.
With SA bracing itself for the likelihood of ongoing load shedding for the foreseeable future, retailers are gearing up for a surge in demand for inverters, generators and gas appliances.