Africa’s biggest grocery retailer Shoprite says innovation and the take-up of its digital platforms helped it achieve record sales in the year to end-June.

Shoprite and other grocery retailers were partially shielded against the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown restrictions over the past 18 months because they were classified as an essential service, though they still felt the effect through the restricted sale of alcohol...

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