Shoprite Holdings Ltd., the largest grocery company in Africa, has more than 2,989 stores there.

The company’s headquarters are located in Brackenfell, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

A publicly traded company, Shoprite Holdings Limited also has secondary listings on the stock exchanges in Namibia and Zambia.

Additionally, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange lists it.

Further, the Shoprite Group, which employs over 145,000 people, is the largest employer in South Africa’s private sector.

Learn more about the company and learn more about how it is to work at Shoprite!

When PEP Stores acquired the Rogut family’s eight-store small supermarket chain in 1979, the Shoprite Group of companies was born.

 Shoprite was first launched in Namibia in 1990. Also, it bought the nationwide Checkers chain in 1991. The first store in Lusaka, Zambia, opened its doors in 1995.

In the same year, they bought Sentra, a company that had been serving as a central buyer for 550 owner-managed supermarkets.

 This acquisition allowed Shoprite to enter the franchising sector.

The Shoprite Group was included in the blue-chip JSE Top-40 Index in 2008.

In the 2019 Tiso-Blackstar/Sunday Times Top Brand Survey, Shoprite received the Proudly South African Brand Award and was chosen as the top grocery store brand.

Another amazing fact is that the Shoprite Group was rated as the 86th largest retailer in the world in Deloitte’s Global Powers of Retailing 2019 (covering the 2017 fiscal year).

Also, Shoprite opened the doors of a brand-new supermarket in Gombe, Kinshasa, on April 19, 2012, making it the first South African retailer to do so.

What all is said and done, it is safe to understand why working at Shoprite can be an amazing opportunity: by working in such an enormous retail store, not only you will be able to absorb all the experience and knowledge, but also you may be able to build a solid career progression on it.

With Shoprite, you truly have a good chunk of opportunities.

We will start from the beginning: stores.

In their operations, a variety of positions in the shop environment are accessible, including those in the food, furniture, banking, and cellular retailing industries.

Being a Packer, a loader and a manager are some of the jobs you can find here.

There are also office jobs, here you can find the following categories, according to Shoprites’ website:

Another amazing place where you can work is ShopriteX, it is the digital innovation hub for the Shoprite Group of Companies, and already has two market-leading inventions under its belt: Sixty60, Checkers’ innovative 60-minute grocery delivery service, and Xtra Savings, South Africa’s fastest-growing rewards program.

ShopriteX is committed to saving customers time and money through innovation and more individualized shopping experiences.

They put the needs of their customers first and use the finest data science and technology to achieve this goal.

According to Shoprite: ShopriteX is the innovation center re-imagining retail, reducing friction, and creating a tech-led future for the Shoprite Group, with some of the finest minds in data science, technology, e-commerce, and personalization.

So, if you have a more startup mindset or set of skills, ShopriteX might be an amazing place to work!

Salaries at the Shoprite Group of Companies range from an average of R 100 613 to R 643 085 per year, according to the portal PayScale.

With an average annual compensation of R 384 235, buyers have the highest income, while manager trainees have the lowest at R 96 496.

Since Shoprite has a lot of divisions, we have divided here what are the most popular benefits you will find by working there:

How to apply at working in Shoprite?

If you got interested, take a look at our article where we will talk deeply about the application process and the abilities required.