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Tread mindfully with techDespite the customer experience and engagement benefits that smart technologies can provide, a new study by Oracle Retail reveals that consumers still have a conservative appetite for retail technologies that require personal data and make decisions on their behalf. Basically, customers are keen to take up new technologies that improve their retail experience - as long as they can stay in control. In other recent headline news, Stellenbrau announced a deal that sees the Stellenbosch-based brewery becoming part of Heineken South Africa. Another big reveal was the StyleBySA campaign launched at SA Fashion Week. The collection is a collaboration between Woolworths and eight of South Africa's most creative young fashion brands. Last but not least, be sure to check out which loyalty programmes South Africans are in love with. It's going to be an interesting week, following Friday's cabinet reshuffle (and marijuana ruling). However you choose to contribute to the resultant dialogue and organised activities, please do so safely and with good intention. Lauren Hartzenberg
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|  | Consumers are most willing to engage brands with new technology if they feel that they are in control of their experience... read |
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Woolworths launched its highly-anticipated ‘StyleBySA' seasonal campaign at SA Fashion Week, showcasing the creations... Read | It's been a long time since the general store was the go-to place for consumers to pick up everything they needed from week to week... Read | Heineken South Africa has signed a deal with Stellenbosch-based brewery, Stellenbrau, making it part of the global brewing concern... Read | Despite weak economic and retail sales growth, multinational retailers are hungry for space in SA's shopping malls... Read | | Black Insomnia Coffee Company, which lays claim to having the strongest coffee in the world, has listed on Amazon... Read |
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 | Prospects for the retail sector may be dismal in 2017, but that has not stopped investors from piling in. The general retailers index has gained 4.2%... read | |  | Banking group Capitec has acquired a 40% interest in international online lending group Creamfinance for €21m... read | | |
 | Atterbury's fourth successful retail development in Ghana, the $95 million (R1.2 billion)
Kumasi City Mall opens on 20 April 2017... read | |
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 | Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the largest beer group in the world, has committed itself to secure 100% of its purchased electricity... read | |  | Conscious of the water disaster currently being faced by South Africans, Procter & Gamble (P&G) South Africa has a goal to raise 500,000 days of clean water... read | | |
 | Leigh Andrews On the day of love, Tuesday, 14 February, BrandLove fittingly held the much-loved Cape Town version of its CX trends update for 2017 at 360 Business Parks in Paarden Eiland... read | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Spree's marketing manager, Kim Hawkins... read | | |
 | Whisky Live will this year be taking its Celebration events to Cape Town at The Lookout, Granger Bay, from 6-8 April, Pretoria's Brooklyn Design Square from 4-6 May and Durban from 1-3 June. read | | |
 | Swedish retailer H&M has continued on its winning streak in SA, dodging the malaise to which domestic retail players have succumbed... read | |  | Swedish clothing giant Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) on Thursday announced the launch of its eighth fashion brand... read | |  | Maroefah Smith 1990s nostalgia has brought back the popularity of the unfashionable fashion shoe, also known as the ‘pretty ugly' shoe... read | |  | Lindsay Samson Today's fashion industry has long been embroiled in a sustainability challenge. Constantly contributing to the depletion of fossil fuels through its relentless use of natural resources... read | | |
 | Colleen Goko The RSA Group has moved to quash allegations by the Competition Commission that it, along with eight other fresh produce groups, has been fixing prices... read | |  | Ann Crotty The Competition Tribunal has approved the Public Investment Corporation's (PIC) acquisition of Anheuser-Busch InBev's 26.5% stake in Distell... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg Vital Health Foods has introduced a new range of grab-and-go nutritional snacks. The bars, bites and air-popped rice come in a variety of flavours... read | |  | South African consumers should prepare to fork out more for their favourite cuts of beef as analysts predict that beef prices will soar beyond 30% this year as livestock farmers battle to rebuild their herds... read | |  | A row between Heineken and a small Romanian brewer backed by the Hungarian government looked to be over on Monday... read | |  | The Competition Commission has extended its search and seizure operation involving fresh produce market agents to premises in Cape Town and Durban... read | | |
 | Even though 2016 saw the South African reefer (refrigerated cargo solutions) market contract by about 3%, refrigerated container trade still makes up about 19% of total South African container exports... read | | |
 | According to Frost & Sullivan, water and wastewater end-user demand, power generation in emerging economies, and investment in modernising water and wastewater infrastructure are factors igniting pockets of growth in the global centrifugal pumps market... read | |  | ABC Cosméticos has opened in Angola with a budget of $10 million and capacity to produce 8.840 tonnes per a year of five different products... read | | |
 | During the recent Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town, designer Gavin Rajah partnered with Coca-Cola to unveil four limited edition bottle designs... read | | |
 | Scottish Leader recently joined forces with South African designer, Dennis Chuene to produce a video that demonstrates what the popular blended Scotch whisky... read | | |
 | Mark Allix Bidcorp executive chairman Brian Joffe will step down at the end of June 2017, taking up the role of nonexecutive director of the foodservice company... read | | |
 | Robert Laing Woolworths is combining its Australian subsidiaries Country Road Group and David Jones into one group called WHL Australasia... read | | |
 | In a recent paper, delivered at the Seamless Pay Conference in Cape Town, entitled ‘The Future of Authentication', Steven Jackets, examined some of the issues... read | | |
 | Nicci Botha An increase in cancer-related insurance claims might not necessarily be a bad thing... read | |
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| Swedish Proverb "Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours!" Napoleon Hill "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Vincent Van Gogh "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." Shiv Khera "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." |
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