Cellucity partners with Pargo
Delivery in South Africa is not easy. Many South Africans live in outlying areas where there isn’t a well-developed infrastructure in place to get online orders to customers in a way that is both convenient and affordable. For this reason, Cellucity partnered with...
B2B ecommerce is changing sales and that’s important
For years, ecommerce has been a disruptive force. All you have to do is take a walk through any city centre and look at how brick and mortar stores are faring. More and more businesses are moving online. By Robbie Kearns, senior regional vice-president of Salesforce...
Telematics: A driving force for e-commerce
There has been unprecedented growth in online retail globally since the start of the pandemic. South Africa is no exception. With the vast majority of consumers and businesses having little alternative but to go online this has triggered exponential growth in...
The future of retail is digital
E-commerce has gone from strength to strength in South Africa over the past year off the back of the Covid-19 global pandemic and rapidly accelerated digitisation. In fact, findings from World Wide Worx' Online Retail in South Africa 2021, found online retail in South...
E-commerce and fintech boom to benefit SA consumers
The acceleration of ecommerce as the global Covid-19 pandemic revolutionises buying trends is giving rise to exciting new developments in the financial technology industry. According to research by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),...
How telematics is driving e-commerce in SA
If ever there was a time for the e-commerce sector to adopt telematics technology, it would be now: COVID-19 has disrupted the retail landscape, with more South Africans now choosing e-commerce as their preferred shopping channel over traditional brick-and-mortar...
Nedbank and Sandton City move to digital shopping
Avo by Nedbank is bringing digital malls to the South African market with Sandton City being the first to launch. An immersive 'mall' experience, Avo digital shopping lets users enjoy the convenience of making a range of purchases remotely and collecting their...
Rules of survival for your e-commerce start-up
Have you seen the movie that starts with a group of terrified soldiers in a bobbing boat, being tossed onto a blood red beach erupting in sand and bodies? By Howard Rybko, CEO of Syncrony None of those soldiers can be sure they will survive. Neither can you, if you...
On-demand delivery on the rise
On-demand delivery is gaining a lot of popularity as a result of the current business and economic challenges and many businesses are expanding their operations by jumping on the digital bandwagon. By Antonio Bruni, CEO of Picup To expand their business reach,...
Gain and maintain public trust for your online business
Covid-19 has propelled businesses across all sectors to not only focus on being the best in the world, but on being the best for the world. This means that they must maintain their "social licenses to operate"--with public trust as their currency. According to Riaan...
Click & collect an essential part of the new normal
2020 was a rollercoaster of a year filled with twists, turns, ups and lock-downs, which threw any semblance of normality out the window. But, despite this uncertainty, last year made one thing clear for retailers and consumers alike -- ecommerce is the future, and it...
Small businesses could become the lifeblood of e-commerce
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent a staggering 98% of business in South Africa today. The fact that SMES also employ between 50 and 60% of the country's workforce and are responsible for a quarter of the job growth in the private sector, according to...