Interestingly, although Shoprite is supposed to be selling to lower-middle income consumers and Checkers to high-end consumers (We are chasing the same consumers as Woolworths), there was less than 50c difference in the price of their baskets. Baker noted that Shoprite has subsidised the pricing for many basic foods, including 600g brown bread at R4.99 a loaf, R2 hotdogs and R4.99 hot chips in some stores which were also mentioned by Engelbrecht, who said that the group was selling subR5 deli meals
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doi: 10.3389/fchem.2025.1682505 Received 09 August 2025 Revised 20 October 2025 Accepted 28 October 2025 Published 21 November 2025 Volume 13 - 2025 Edited by Yan He, Henan Normal University, China Reviewed by Xuan Shouhu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Chenggang Liang, Guizhou Normal University, China Updates Copyright 2025 Wang, Chen, Wan, He, Liu and Hu