{"id":281703,"date":"2018-11-05T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T05:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=281703"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T12:33:31","slug":"black-friday-makro-reveals-details-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/281703\/black-friday-makro-reveals-details-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday: Makro reveals details for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer, Makro, has teased details around its biggest shopping period of the year &#8211; Black Friday and Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In financial results for the 53 weeks to the end of December 2017 Massmart, said that online sales grew 47% &#8211; with Makro up 29% and subsidiary Game, up 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Dion Wired meanwhile saw sales rise by 198%. Online sales at Makro accounts for\u00a0over 15% of its total sales. Massmart said that it recorded a &#8216;bumper&#8217; Black Friday in 2017, with over R1 billion in sales recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Black Friday Sale is Coming Soon. Major savings. Get ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals,&#8221; Makro said in on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makro.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More exciting benefits over the Black Friday period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>R70 for delivery over the Black 5 Day<\/li>\n<li>Free click and collect for Makro stores and lockers<\/li>\n<li>Get 10% off on non-promotional items in-store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech, the\u00a0retailer also expanded on which items will likely be the most popular on the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Items such as high-tech products as well as small and large appliances are very popular during this period,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Festive season groceries also feature top of the list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of Makro\u2019s preparation for Black Friday will also include the rollout of new technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Makro will be rolling out a new mobile pay-point system,&#8221; it said. &#8220;This addition will assist consumers to pay for purchases while standing in the queue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added that it also plans to increase\u00a0the number of staff and security at all stores to better service customers over Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deliveries for both online and in-store purchases over Black Friday, will cost\u00a0<strong>R70\u00a0<\/strong>regardless of the radius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And for the first time ever, Makro will introduce an online drive-thru service at the Makro Riversands store, enabling customers to collect their online selected items,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/277763\/black-friday-2018-deals-from-some-of-south-africas-biggest-retail-brands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Friday 2018 deals from some of South Africa\u2019s biggest retail brands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer, Makro has teased details regarding it activity around the biggest shopping period of the year &#8211; Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":281791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,8961,10387],"class_list":["post-281703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-makro","tag-massmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281703","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=281703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282021,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281703\/revisions\/282021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}