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Workers offload some of the f food donated by a Greenfields retailer for the animals at the East London zoo Picture: RANDELL ROSKRUGE

Food arrives to ease burden at EL zoo

By Tyler Riddin The animals of the East London Zoo received the first boost to their normal food supply yesterday when the Pick n Pay Greenfields franchise delivered bakkie loads of produce at 11am. The franchise delivered R2500 worth of…

A Pick n Pay store. File Photo. Image: Kevin Sutherland

Seven years’ backpay for 61 Pick n Pay staff fired unfairly

BY DAVE CHAMBERS Sixty-one Pick n Pay staff have been reinstated by the Labour Appeal Court after being fired for going on strike for an hour in 2010. Acting Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane ordered the supermarket giant to pay the 61…

Loyalty cards surge as hard times bite

By Wendy Knowler People are going mad for loyalty programmes whose cash-back and discount benefits are helping to reduce the sting of hard times. Data show that millions of consumers are using loyalty points to buy essentials such as…

South Africa’s Pick n Pay cuts 3,500 jobs, warns on H1

Pick n Pay has cut 10% of its staff, eliminating approximately 3,500 jobs, the South African grocer said on Monday, as the country grapples with its first recession in eight years. Most of South Africa’s retailers have flagged lower or…

Beyond pen and pencil

PnP awards school heroes GRADE 3 pupil at Advance for Life Christian Academy Azisiwe Mbangeli received the Pick n Pay Hero Award recently. Advance for Life Christian Academy is a member of the Pick n Pay School Club and is in their first…

Slip into your fuzzies for Slipper Day

THE Reach For A Dream Foundation will once again be hosting their annual “Slipper Day” tomorrow. The vision of the foundation helps children between the ages of three to 18 fulfil dreams they have harboured and who have been diagnosed…