{"id":353177,"date":"2019-11-12T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=353177"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:39:24","slug":"pick-n-pays-early-black-friday-2019-deals-what-south-africans-are-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/353177\/pick-n-pays-early-black-friday-2019-deals-what-south-africans-are-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick n Pay&#8217;s early Black Friday 2019 deals &#8211; what South Africans are buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick n Pay launched its weekly Black November deals for its Gauteng and Western Cape online shoppers last Monday (4 November), with the retailer reporting a record number of visitors to its website.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Black November\u2019 deals go live on Pick n Pay\u2019s online shop every Monday at 07h00 and will be valid for seven days or until stocks last, the retailer said.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the deals will offer up to 50% off across various categories including groceries, appliances, electronics, wine and liquor, household items and baby essentials.<\/p>\n<p>The group said that the demand for cleaning and household products appear to be the most popular purchase so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Items to restock pantries were some of the most searched and bought deals,&#8221; says John Bradshaw, retail executive for marketing at Pick n Pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The online store also reported a record number of orders when compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our systems were able to keep up with the demand and our teams effectively managed and dispatched all orders to happy customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw said that Pick n Pay\u2019s online delivery capacity has also been ramped up to avoid any delays in customers getting their items.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to offering free delivery to some customers, Bradshaw said that the retailer has also launched &#8216;Black November saver delivery&#8217; slots from this week.<\/p>\n<p>This is a discounted rate for customers who don\u2019t mind what time of the day their order is delivered, he said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should customers want their delivery to take place in the morning or afternoon, customers can still select the normal delivery option which allows them to select a delivery slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For either delivery option though, customers are notified what time to expect their delivery on their selected date and can track their order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/350013\/a-list-of-stores-offering-black-friday-2019-deals-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A list of stores offering Black Friday 2019 deals in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick n Pay launched its weekly Black November deals for its Gauteng and Western Cape online shoppers last Monday (4 November), with the retailer reporting a record number of visitors to its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":353227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[14446,26,4067],"class_list":["post-353177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-black-friday-2019","tag-headline","tag-pick-n-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353177","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=353177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353213,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353177\/revisions\/353213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}