Shoprite sales from continuing operations grew 6.4% in the four months to October 2026, the company said on 6 November, against the same four months of 2025.
Supermarkets RSA, the core segment that includes Shoprite, Usave, Checkers, Checkers Hyper and LiquorShop, grew 7.1%. Supermarkets Non-RSA grew 7.0% in rand and 4.3% in constant currency. Other operating segments fell 1.5%.
Shoprite said Supermarkets RSA internal selling price inflation was 0.7% for the period, in line with the 0.6% it reported for July. The Shoprite brand continued to see overall deflation. Sixty60, the group’s on-demand digital commerce platform, grew sales by 33.4%.
For the first three months, July to September, the company said Supermarkets RSA grew 5.3 percentage points faster than the rest of the market, as measured by NielsenIQ. Shoprite said market share data was only available for that period at the time of reporting.
Stores
On a net basis the group opened 71 stores. Of those, a net 61 were in Supermarkets RSA, which opened 71 and closed 10. The new stores were 32 supermarkets (12 Shoprite, 11 Usave, eight Checkers and one Checkers Hyper), 21 LiquorShops and 18 adjacent formats, including seven Petshop Science stores.
Source: Shoprite Holdings SENS updates of 2 February 2026, 12 August 2026 and 6 November 2026. Each period is measured against the same period of the year before; the periods differ in length. Chart: Rand Desk
Supermarkets Non-RSA opened two LiquorShop stores.
Other segments
The 1.5% decline in the other segments follows the end of a franchise agreement in the 2026 financial year, which closed 51 OK Franchise stores. Shoprite said OK Franchise trading profit growth is positive despite the lower sales. The division opened a net five stores and ended the period with 578.
Stats SA publishes the food inflation figure Shoprite cites; see how South Africa measures consumer price inflation.
Pharmacy sales rose 17.6%. Medirite and Medirite Plus grew 9.7%, and the distributor Transpharm grew 21.3%.
The period and the comparison
Shoprite changed its reporting window this time. It used to give a first-quarter update covering three months. It said it extended the period to four months to reflect the latest metrics ahead of market engagements, before it enters its closed period in December.
Growth in the 52 weeks to 28 June 2026 was 7.2%, on sales of about R270.8 billion. In that update Shoprite put Supermarkets RSA like-for-like sales growth at 2.0% and Sixty60 sales at R25.5 billion for the year, and said it ran 2,839 corporate-owned stores in the segment. The latest update is a voluntary announcement, and Shoprite said its auditors have not reviewed it.
The sale of the South African Furniture division still needs approval from the Competition Tribunal.
Shoprite said it will issue a 2027 interim sales update before its interim results at the end of February 2027.
