{"id":190784,"date":"2017-08-07T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=190784"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:28:29","slug":"heres-whats-different-about-the-new-pick-n-pay-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/190784\/heres-whats-different-about-the-new-pick-n-pay-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s different about the new Pick n Pay app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer Pick n Pay has released the iPhone version of its new app, having last week released a version for Android which attracted more than 10,000 downloads within the first 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The app offers practical updates that have been designed to enhance the Pick n Pay shopping experience, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>It also brings all the functionality of the Smart Shopper kiosk to the palm of users\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n<p>New features on the app include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barcode scanner: Users can scan any product and instantly add it to their shopping lists<\/li>\n<li>New recipes every month, plus the functionality to add the ingredients to a shopping list<\/li>\n<li>Online record of shoppers\u2019 purchase history, and the ability to add items from the shopping history to a shopping list<\/li>\n<li>Personal discounts and Smart Shopper points to a Smart Shopper card<\/li>\n<li>List of Pick n Pay\u2019s latest top 10 weekly specials, which can be added to a shopping list<\/li>\n<li>The functionality to buy electricity, data and airtime using Smart Shopper points<\/li>\n<li>Pick n Pay customers can use their personal discounts in-store, and search for products, shop and check out faster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn the months ahead, we\u2019ll be adding further enhancements to ensure the app continues to improve the Pick n Pay shopping experience,\u201d said Georgina Muirhead, head of customer experience for PnP Online.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/189063\/technology-is-killing-jobs-at-pick-n-pay-but-thats-not-the-whole-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology is killing jobs at Pick n Pay \u2013 but that\u2019s not the whole story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer Pick n Pay has released the iPhone version of its new app, having last week released a version for Android which attracted more than 10,000 downloads within the first 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882,9878],"tags":[4067],"class_list":["post-190784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-technology","tag-pick-n-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190804,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190784\/revisions\/190804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}