{"id":284220,"date":"2018-11-14T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=284220"},"modified":"2018-11-14T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T13:02:04","slug":"makro-announces-big-5-day-black-friday-2018-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/284220\/makro-announces-big-5-day-black-friday-2018-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Makro announces big 5-day Black Friday 2018 sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makro has announced details surrounding its Black Friday 2018 sale.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer said that its sale will run over a five day period, from 21 to 25 November with over 26,000 lines on promotion.<\/p>\n<p>It has also extended its trading hours over this period (Wednesday to Friday- 08h00 to 18h00, Saturday from 08h00 to 16h00 and Sunday from 09h00 to 16h00).<\/p>\n<p>As part of the sale, Makro said that it will be rolling out a number of new initiatives to improve the shopping experience over the Black Friday period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be rolling out new a mobile pay-point systems to assist customers in purchasing a small number of items to pay while standing in the queue,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have introduced an online drive-thru service at the Makro Riversands store, which is a never-been-seen before feature at a retail store in South Africa, enabling customers to collect their online items in an even more convenient manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Makro said that it has also increased the number of staff and security at all its stores to ensure the safety of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Other new features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company has also partnered with Uber and will be offering a R50 discount (limited rides to and from Makro outlets on a first-come, first-serve basis) with dedicated Uber pick-up and collection zones at each store.<\/li>\n<li>Makro will charge a R70 delivery fee for both online and in-store purchases regardless of the distance from the store, and offer free delivery to Makro pick-up lockers and click-and-collect from store.<\/li>\n<li>All mCard members will receive 10% back into their mWallet on all non-promotional products (excluding food, liquor and selected categories) bought in-store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/284112\/what-south-africans-will-be-buying-on-black-friday-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What South Africans will be buying on Black Friday 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retailer said that its sale will run over a five day period, from 21 to 25 November with over 26,000 lines on promotion.<\/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],"class_list":["post-284220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284220","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=284220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284226,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284220\/revisions\/284226"}],"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=284220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}