Pharmacy group Clicks expects the operating environment to be tough post-lockdown, after reporting an “unprecedented” surge in sales as customers stocked up on health-care and hygiene products.

Load-shedding could add additional pressure, with the group deciding not to declare an interim dividend, despite double-digit profit growth in its six months to end-February...

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