What is a Supermarket?
A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products, organized into sections.
This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earlier grocery stores, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market.
Top Supermarkets In South Africa
1. SHOPRITE
Shoprite has an employee base of over 147,000 people and more than 2934 retail outlets. Shoprite is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with secondary listings on both the Namibian and Zambian stock exchanges. Shoprite was established in 1979 and it’s headquartered in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
2. SPAR GROUP LIMITED
The Dutch multinational franchise has its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands and it is ranked as the 140th biggest retailer according to FY 2017 Global Powers of Retailing Top 250. The ranking showed that SPAR had a 17.4% CAGR between 2012 and 2017, with retail revenue of $7,252 million.
SPAR group was founded in 1932, and currently, has an employee base of 350,000 people. The retail outlet operates in over 45 countries and consists of more than 13,112 stores.
3. PICK N PAY STORES LIMITED
Founded in 1967 by Jack Goldin (currently owned by the Ackerman Family), Pick n Pay Limited currently operates in 7 countries and has a CAGR of 6.6% between 2012 and 2017.
This retail outlet has its headquarters in Kenilworth, Cape Town, with retail revenue of $6225 million according to the FY2017 Global Powers of Retailing Top 250. Pick n pay stores limited has an employee base of 80,000 according to wikipeadia.com and has over 1600 retail outlets
4. WOOLWORTHS HOLDINGS LIMITED
Ranked as the 179th retailer in the world according to the FY 2017 Global Powers of Retailing Top 250, Woolworths was founded in 1931 and its headquarters is in Longmarket Street Cape Town.
The company has an employee base of 40000 people and operates in 14 countries. The company’s revenue according to FY 2017 stood at $5332 million and it has a CAGR of 14.3% between 2012 and 2017.
5. MASSMART (WALMART)
Massmart started in 1990 and was founded by Mark Lamberti. In 2011, Walmart bought 51 percent of the company’s stock. It has an employee base of more than 45,000 and over 442 retail outlets.
As of 2016, the company revenue according to Wikipedia.com stood at R91.564 billion. Massmart also has outlets in Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Botswana, to mention a few.
What is the most popular supermarket in South Africa?
Shoprite & Checkers
A comprehensive grocery basket comparison finds Shoprite & Checkers are SA’s most affordable supermarkets.
Checkers has also been named South Africa’s most popular supermarket according to a Netwerk24 poll in which 82% of the nearly four thousand respondents indicated it is their supermarket of choice.
What are the biggest supermarkets in South Africa?
4.1 Food and Grocery
The South African food retail market is highly concentrated, with five main players accounting for about 60% of all retail sales.
Referred to as the Big 5, the five companies are Shoprite, Pick n Pay, Spar, Woolworths, and the new player, Walmart’s Cambridge Foods.
What is the biggest supermarket chain in South Africa?
Shoprite Holdings Ltd
Shoprite Holdings Ltd
The largest retail company in the country, Shoprite operates over 1,200 and 270 franchise outlets in 16 countries across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. The largest individual shareholder and chairman is South African billionaire Christoffel Wiese
What is the second largest retailer in South Africa?
Pick n Pay, founded in 1967, is the second-largest retailer in South Africa, with stores in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Mauritius, Eswatini, and Lesotho.
It provides a wide range of products, including food, clothing, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, hardware, and other general merchandise.