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What South African retailer Shoprite tells us about growth
Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO of Shoprite says food insecurity in South Africa at worst level in ten years.
We begin a new series on Africa’s economic future, as the continent’s population heads toward 2.5 billion. Today, we’re in South Africa. We hear from Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO of Shoprite — the country’s biggest private employer on how customer loyalty helped drive the supermarket’s success.
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