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Africa & Middle East store visits

Our store visit reports feature floor plans, store photos and full commentary written by our team of international retail experts. Dozens of reports are made every year of stores that feature new concepts in food and grocery retail.

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Store of the month: May 2023: Checkers, Paarl, South Africa
3/05/2023
See inside our pick for May’s store of the month, Checkers in Paarl, South Africa. It features many innovative and creative display solutions and a strong emphasis on fresh food, bringing excitement to the shopping experience.
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Store of the month: August 2022, Naivas Foodmarket, Greenspan Mall, Kenya
11/08/2022
See inside our pick for August's store of the month, Naivas Foodmarket, Kenya. The new store concept is visually impressive, with a clear focus on fresh and enhanced store design.
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Presentations

Five must-see SPAR stores in South Africa
15/06/2023
These exceptional SPAR stores, three in Cape Town and two in Johannesburg, highlight how the business excels with experiential retail.
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Five things we love about Pick n Pay’s large format stores
12/06/2023
South Africa sets a high benchmark for exciting and experiential retail. Stunningly beautiful stores come as standard in affluent areas.
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Charming and chic Checkers in South Africa
12/06/2023
In this report we introduce the Checkers Food Franschhoek store.
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Food Lover’s Market, Cape Town, South Africa
09/08/2016
Food Lover’s Market meets the needs of ‘foodies’ looking for high quality products, focusing on fresh ranges, fruits and vegetables, counters and food-for-now to differentiate itself from rivals in South Africa.
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Shoprite USave, Cape Town, South Africa
22/07/2016
USave is a no-frills discounter that aims to meet the needs of low income shoppers. Stores carry a range of about 1,500 SKUs, predominantly branded products, focused on key everyday needs.
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Woolworths (South Africa), Cape Town, South Africa
19/07/2016
Woolworths Waterstone is a flagship store that represents the retailer’s strong intent to build a forceful presence in grocery retailing and provide a differentiated offer for shoppers.
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Makro Montague Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
09/05/2016
We visited Makro Montague Gardens in Cape Town to see how the fascia is growing its sales and shopper numbers, while simultaneously implementing a multichannel strategy against the backdrop of an increasingly competitive South African market.
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Pick n Pay Kenilworth Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
06/05/2016
Pick n Pay Kenilworth Centre is one of the retailer’s ‘Next Generation’ stores, which in its 2016 full year results it highlighted the format as bringing ‘together improvements in store design, space allocation, product range, store operations, product replenishment and customer service’.
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SPAR (South Africa), Cape Town, South Africa
03/05/2016
SPAR (South Africa) is competing strongly in a challenging market. It is winning in local areas by empowering individual store owners to better target shoppers in their vicinity and supporting them with great private label ranges and flexible format development.
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HyperPanda, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
15/04/2015

The hypermarket is a core format for the Panda Retail Company. The retailer is in the process of maximising its hypermarket format to meet a wide range of shopper needs through the improvement of non-food ranges to make them stand out in-store. This evolution is being allied to the retailer’s strength in fresh fruit and vegetables, counters and its price focused offer to drive footfall and maintain loyalty.
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