We hope you had a relaxing Easter weekend. To ease into the week we have lots of good news stories to satisfy your retail appetite. First up, 14 highlights from #MBFWCT17, with Meagan Duckitt sharing why Cape Town Fashion Week was a huge success, despite the weather wreaking havoc.

We also have insights ahead of Primedia Unlimited Malls' year-long rebrand and restructure with Molefi Moloantoa, CEO of Primedia Unlimited Malls, commenting that digitising the business plays a big part in understanding the shopper better in order to engage in a different, non-direct way.

Sticking with retailer news, The Crazy Store officially opened its 300^th store on 13 April at the Kyalami Corner Shopping Centre in Midrand. MD, Kevin Lennett explains their plans for Botswanan expansion in Mowana Park Shopping Centre mid-May, expecting to open an additional 20 stores by the end of 2017.

Then if you're literally looking for something sweet to tickle your fancy, this week's #FreshOnTheShelf column explores two new toffee flavours from Darling Sweet - coffee and mint.

That's just a taste of our retail industry news this week, bite in!


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