HARD-pressed consumers in the current difficult economic climate can now buy meals from Shoprite stores countrywide for just R5 or less. These discounted convenient meals have been introduced to help consumers’, especially students.

Food scarcity is a serious issue for many students and Shoprite introduced these meals to ensure there are affordable meal options available to them as well as to the retailer’s customers in general.

The new R5 meals include:

• fried fish – R5
• potato hashbrown – R2
• chicken hotdog – R3.50
• fried egg and tomato sandwich – R4
• small pap – R2
• pancake – R3
• sweetcorn on a stick – R2.50
• soup and igwinya (vetkoek) – R5
• boiled egg and igwinya combo – R4

As Africa’s largest retailer, Shoprite continues to present its consumers with innovative and value-added promotions in its unwavering commitment to deliver the lowest prices on food and household essentials every day.

The retailer regularly subsidises the cost of basic food items and has extended its bread subsidy indefinitely, with its 600g in-house bakery bread retailing for just R4.99 since last year April.

In addition, the Shoprite Group has a robust hunger relief programme in place to address the food security challenges faced by so many people across the African continent.

Its Mobile Soup Kitchens have been serving vulnerable communities on a daily basis for a decade and the retailer makes surplus food from all of its stores available to hundreds of non-profit organisations who collectively feed thousands of hungry people daily.

The Group also works to establish longer-term solutions, such as sustainable food gardens, to alleviate hunger in communities and to generate much-needed income for vulnerable individuals and organisations in need.

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