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On 6 October 2026, South Africa passed 504 consecutive days without Eskom load shedding, and Eskom's diesel spend between 1 April and 1 October 2026 fell by R4.79 billion - down 80.49% on the comparable half (Source: Further Africa / Eskom). For FMCG suppliers and their retail partners, the grid itself has effectively fallen out of the on-shelf availability conversation. The question is whether the root-cause coding has caught up with the operating environment. The grid is no longer a...

Shoprite closed FY2026 with Sixty60 at R25.5 billion in sales, up 34.5% year-on-year, against 7.1% for its South African supermarkets (Source: TechCabal). Every KAM has that number. What most have not priced in is where those orders are picked from — and what that does to the cost of a stockout in the three weeks before 24 September. Six dark stores Sixty60 now runs six dedicated dark stores — four in the Western Cape, one in Gauteng, one in KwaZulu-Natal (Source: MyBroadband). The rest of...

Most suppliers measure performance by calendar month. Most retailers don't. That mismatch is one of the most overlooked sources of friction in retailer relationships - and one of the easiest to fix. Why retailers use a 4-4-5 calendar Calendar months vary in length and trading days, which makes month-on-month comparisons unreliable. To solve this, many retailers report against a 4-4-5 calendar: each quarter is split into 13 weeks - two four-week periods and one five-week period. Every period...