{"id":23303,"date":"2012-10-01T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=23303"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:02:31","slug":"vodacom-aims-for-amazon-like-online-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23303\/vodacom-aims-for-amazon-like-online-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom aims for “Amazon-like” online experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom<\/a> says it wants a bigger focus online from both a service and sales perspective, to \u201ccreate an Amazon<\/a>-like experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a roundtable event in Sandton on Friday (28 September), Vodacom CEO\u00a0Shameel Joosub<\/a>\u00a0said:\u00a0 \u201cWhere we would like to go is a bigger focus online going forward\u2026approaching it from a service perspective – so services online; and from a sales perspective – so selling online.”<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strategy, our play is to create an Amazon-like experience, and really to invest in that. It is not something we are going to achieve overnight, but certainly the direction, that is where we would like to go,\u201d the group lead said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more we will move towards online and the country will evolve and we will get much more transactions happening online. It will grow exponentially in the years to come. I think that is where the opportunity lies,” Joosub continued.<\/p>\n

“If we can create the right experience\u2026if we can make it simpler, easier, better, and if we can invest now, then I think there is an opportunity to be very dominant in that space.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stressed that the company would continue to focus on its retail distribution offerings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an extensive distribution network. We have over 26,000 distribution points\u2026we have over 350 of our own stores,\u201d the CEO said.<\/p>\n

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