PODCAST: How Checkers Sixty60 won the app delivery wars
13 September 2021 - 08:30
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Checker's Sixty60 delivery app was the hands-down grocery delivery winner of Covid. It has been downloaded more than 1.5-million times and, rather than take away jobs, it has created 2,870 new ones. It's a project run by Shoprite's chief of strategy and innovation Neil Schreuder who tells Toby Shapshak about its latest innovation: a cashier-less "rush" store that automatically tracks (using cameras) what its staff select in the pilot store.
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PODCAST: How Checkers Sixty60 won the app delivery wars
Checker's Sixty60 delivery app was the hands-down grocery delivery winner of Covid. It has been downloaded more than 1.5-million times and, rather than take away jobs, it has created 2,870 new ones. It's a project run by Shoprite's chief of strategy and innovation Neil Schreuder who tells Toby Shapshak about its latest innovation: a cashier-less "rush" store that automatically tracks (using cameras) what its staff select in the pilot store.
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