We seek to move hand-in-hand with the changing needs and aspirations of our customers. We employ 52 people in our company-owned stores and operations. Our franchise stores extend this to 85 people working under the Pick n Pay and Boxer banners in seven countries.
Working at Pick n Pay is more than a job; it is an opportunity to learn, develop new skills and benefit through teamwork. We are committed to training, developing and empowering our people. Greater operating efficiency provides headroom for us to invest in improving the customer experience. We work in partnership with suppliers and service providers to provide value and convenience for our customers. The scale of our business allows us to give our suppliers sufficient volume so that they can plan and manage their operations to reduce costs.
We procure, transport, store and display our products as efficiently as possible to keep costs to a minimum. Our focus on centralisation across all areas of the business has increased our business efficiency. The Group benefits from an outstanding information technology infrastructure, with an end-to-end SAP system, which allows for automated and centralised processing, including the forecast and replenishment of inventory.
Our point-of-sale system ably supports our Brand Match campaign, personalised discount vouchers, and has contributed to our Smart Shopper loyalty programme being voted South Africa's favourite loyalty programme for the past five years. Pick n Pay has stores outside South Africa, which generated segmental revenue of R4.
We tailor our ownership model in each country to what is appropriate for the local market, whether establishing owned stores, franchised stores or a part-investment in an independent operation. The Group operates 12 distribution centres across the country catering for groceries, fresh and perishable produce, and clothing. Our two largest distribution centres are Longmeadow in Gauteng and Philippi in the Western Cape, both distributing fresh produce, perishables and groceries.
Customers reward those businesses that they believe are at the heart of society and who give back to the communities they serve. As customers reward us with their loyalty, we are able to grow, serve more customers, generate more jobs, and help more communities — whether by supporting communities or groups during times of crisis, helping to develop local suppliers and small businesses, or tackling societal challenges such as obesity and climate change.
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Over the years, Ackerman and Pick n Pay have received various awards. He will be celebrating his birthday at home with his immediate family.
Home » Business ». You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. Both comments and pings are currently closed. We are all accountable. Pick 'n Pay Stores Ltd. The Cape Town-based company has long been a champion of "consumer sovereignty," focusing primarily on the discount retail market. Pick 'n Pay operates through a number of retail formats, including 14 Pick 'n Pay hypermarkets and Pick 'n Pay supermarkets. The company also operates the Pick 'n Pay Pantry convenience store format, as well as franchise grocery operations under the Pick 'n Pay Family format; more than Score retail stores throughout South Africa, as well as in Botswana and Swaziland; and a small number of stores in Namibia.
In addition, the company owns the Franklins supermarket group in Australia. The company also has extended its range of customer services with the creation of the Go Banking joint venture with Nedbank.
Raymond Ackerman was born in into one of South Africa's leading retailing families--father Gus Ackerman had founded the Ackermans department store chain in Hutt's ideas, particularly his philosophy of "customer sovereignty," were to have a lasting impact on the young Ackerman.
Having graduated from University, Ackerman went to work for his father's business as a trainee manager in Ackerman's first position with his father's company, however, was as a store greeter. In this way Ackerman's father hoped to instill the importance of politeness for the store's customers, while also helping Ackerman overcome his shyness. Ackerman later worked for two years in the company's distribution warehouse. By then, Ackermans had been bought by department store rival Greatermans, based in Johannesburg and which reportedly took its name from its ambition to be greater than Ackermans.
Raymond Ackerman was offered a new position at Greatermans, and served as manager at a series of small-town stores into the mids. The introduction of the first American-styled self-service supermarkets in the early s inspired Greatermans to expand into food retailing as well. The company added a supermarket to its Springs store, placing Ackerman in the store as assistant manager. The experience proved a life-altering one for Ackerman, who found his true calling in food retailing.
Persuaded by the potential of the supermarket format in South Africa, Ackerman encouraged Greatermans to launch its own supermarket format, called Checkers, in Two years later, Ackerman and wife Wendy traveled to the United States to study the supermarket sector more closely.
There, Ackerman took a decidedly hands-on approach, working for some six months in nearly every area of the supermarket operation--from stocking shelves to serving in the butcher section. During his U. Upon returning to South Africa, Ackerman set out to build the Checkers chain. Yet Ackerman ran into a great deal of resistance from the Greatermans board, which saw the company as a department store group, not a supermarket company.
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