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Edcon sheds brands | #MobileCommerceIn our top story this week, Edcon CEO Grant Pattison revealed that Boardmans and Red Square stores will soon be no longer as the company intensifies its focus on the Edgars brand in a bid to win back shoppers. Click through for all the details. Then, we're powering through with our #MobileCommerce content focus. In this week's highlights: • Zando's Graham Du Plessis on the key drivers for mobile shopping on the continent. • Flux Trends' Bronwyn Williams on last mile delivery - digitised democratised and on-demand. • DPO PayGate's Brendon Williamson on trends in the payment space. In other news, Mastercard's Sarah Quinlan shares why the future of retail will be about clicks, bricks and data-driven insights. While Gary Mortimer and Louise Grimmer explain why private label products are taking over supermarket shelves. On a lighter note, I present my latest #FreshOnTheShelf column with our top picks of food and beverage products that have hit the retail shelves recently. And Juanita Pienaar reports back from the recent DJI Ronin-S launch. Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg
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Lauren Hartzenberg Boardmans and Red Square cosmetics stores will soon be no longer as Edcon intensifies its focus on the Edgars brand in a bid to win back shoppers...read |
| | Graham Du Plessis E-commerce is going from strength to strength in South Africa, more and more consumers are gaining confidence in making online purchases that are not solely limited to the likes of books, CDs, electronics, airline tickets and the like...read |
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Sarah Quinlan Over the last 15 years, technology has reshaped the face of global retail. With billions of people spending more time online each day, the way we buy things has evolved...read | 
Gary Mortimer and Louise Grimmer Coles is aiming to have private label products make up 40% of its product range over the next five years. This increase will apply across multiple tiers of products...read | 
Lauren Hartzenberg In #FreshOnTheShelf, we round up some of our favourite food and beverage products...read |
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View gallery | | |  | Woolworths is recalling its Frozen Savoury Rice Mix as a precautionary measure, following a worldwide recall issued by the Hungarian Food Safety Agency... read | |  | From humble beginnings to an export powerhouse, the South African macadamia industry is the largest producer of macadamia nuts worldwide... read | |  | Samantha Snedorf The distillery as it turns out is not run as part of the wine estate, but rather as a separate entity which allows for them to focus on their distinctive gin and distillation process... read | |  | Samantha Snedorf Love-Gin is a family owned business, established by mother and son duo, Sandra and Heinrich Swanepoel. I love their product which is essentially a DIY bathtub, gin making kit that gets you to create your very own juniper spirits... read | |  | Wandile Sihlobo Soya bean production remains at the heart of the US-China trade war, hence prices were under pressure on Friday (6 July 2018) on the back of the introduction of tariffs. For context, China is the world's largest soya bean consumer and heavily reliant on imports. read | | |  | Fast food group Gold Brands plans to dispose of its Black Steer franchise business to Laudian Franchise Management One for R3.2 million... read | | |  | Despite ten years of crippling economic and political setbacks, the franchise sector in South Africa has continued to grow, despite challenging conditions... read | | |  | Kathryn Backholer Imagine a world where smart pantries sense when you are running out of your favourite food and order more of it, without you lifting a finger. Where intelligent robots roam your grocery store, ever at your service... read | |  | Leigh Andrews We've seen a marked rise in returning to real values and letting a brand's humanity and true beauty shine through its messaging in 2018... read | | |  | The FairPlay movement has called for a public enquiry into the fiasco that saw a zero tariff for sugar being set and gazetted in South Africa last year, which allowed importers to bring in and stockpile sugar duty-free... read | |  | The world food import bill has broadly tripled since 2000 to reach $1.43tn in 2017, while it has risen around fivefold for countries that are the most vulnerable to food shortages... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec While every aspect of a product matters, it's the design, packaging and labelling that draws consumers to choose one product instead of another from cluttered retail shelves... read | |  | Issued By Pyrotec Consumers are complex. Understanding your target market is one thing, but attracting their attention is quite another - particularly as traditional methods of advertising and marketing alone are no longer driving sales... read | | |  | Issued By Insight Survey On a global scale, pain continues to be one of the most common symptoms encouraging individuals to seek medical care or over-the-counter alternatives to relieve their symptoms... read | | |  | Leigh Andrews 'Pink tax' has been doing the rounds for decades. Here's why consumers are seeing red about paying more for anything sold to females... read | | |  | Craig Johnston The scope of the retail environment has changed dramatically since the arrival of smart technologies. Customers are becoming more knowledgeable about products across different brands as they are able to scroll through multiple devices... read | |  | Juanita Pienaar Orms hosted a launch event, showcasing the latest in gimbal technology with the release of the DJI Ronin-S in SA. This new innovation is DJI's first single-handed stabiliser promising professional quality... read | | | | Harrison Ford "I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene." Will Durant "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Viktor E. Frankl "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Bruce Lee "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." |
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