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Shoprite Group releases annual SA Food Security Index – seeing food security levels slightly improve | SA News

Through owning about 21% private-label (privately owned or exclusively sourced products), the Group is able to exercise greater influence over the pricing and value of thousands of food products. 

The retailer has also delivered more than R55 billion in instant cash savings since the Xtra Savings rewards programme was launched in 2019. In the 2025 financial year, members saved R16.5 billion at Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets. 

In the past year alone, Shoprite, the Group’s affordability-focussed supermarket, sold and subsidised 27.7 million loaves of bread at R5 each. If lined up end-to-end, these loaves would almost stretch from Cape Town to London.  

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