{"id":184496,"date":"2021-03-26T08:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=100526"},"modified":"2021-03-26T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T06:09:47","slug":"shoprite-expands-r5-offering-adds-sanitary-pads-to-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/shoprite-expands-r5-offering-adds-sanitary-pads-to-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoprite expands R5 offering adds sanitary pads to range"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shoprite expands R5 offering, adds sanitary pads to range<\/p>\n

Shoprite continues to help hard-pressed customers access basic food items.
Its R5 bread subsidy has remained in place, with no increase, since early 2016.
And in 2017 Shoprite introduced a range of R5 deli meals.
Now Shoprite is launching a R5 pack of sanitary pads to help keep young girls in school.<\/p>\n

With 1 in 5 households reporting weekly hunger, and a record 7.2 million unemployed people in South Africa, Shoprite has intensified its efforts to provide customers with products that are affordable and accessible.<\/p>\n

While many have come to disregard the R5 coin\u2019s purchasing power, Shoprite continues to look for ways to stretch it even further, by selling food and other essentials that require just a single coin.<\/p>\n

The first of these was Shoprite\u2019s 600g in-house brown bakery bread, which still retails for only R4.99 \u2013 the same price as when it first launched in April 2016. Over the last five years, there has been zero inflation on this product \u2013 and stores have sold more than 266 million loaves.<\/p>\n

In 2017 Shoprite introduced discounted deli meals so that hard-pressed consumers with only R5 in their pocket can afford to eat. Just in the last 12 months, stores have served more than 23 million meals to customers for R5 or less, with the three most popular being:<\/p>\n