{"id":67576,"date":"2014-09-04T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67576"},"modified":"2014-09-04T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:47:36","slug":"the-best-e-commerce-site-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67576\/the-best-e-commerce-site-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The best e-commerce site in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuppiechef.com has once again been named the best e-commerce site in South Africa, winning the title at 2014 uAfrica eCommerce Conference held in Midrand on Thursday (4 September).<\/p>\n<p>Runners up were Zando and Takealot.com.<\/p>\n<p>The eCommerce Awards acknowledge SME\u2019s that have been successful in the online retail space as voted by uAfrica.com\u2019s some 116,000 survey respondents.<\/p>\n<p>The short-list was then investigated in a &#8220;mystery shopper&#8221; format to determine the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the survey, Kalahari.com was voted as respondents&#8217; favourite website &#8211; with Takealot.com and Groupon voted second and third amongst South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of award winners is listed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Award<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Second runner-up<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>First runner-up<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>Best e-commerce website<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<td>Zando<\/td>\n<td><strong>Yuppiechef<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>SA&#8217;s Favourite website<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Groupon<\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<td><strong>Kalahari.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>Best e-commerce services platform<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Groupon<\/td>\n<td>TravelGround<\/td>\n<td><strong>Bidorbuy<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>Best small e-commerce business<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Seeds for Africa<\/td>\n<td>BabyLife<\/td>\n<td><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>Best shopping process<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<td>Yuppiechef<\/td>\n<td><strong>Zando<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><strong>Best customer service<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Mantality<\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<td><strong>Zando<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-commerce in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New online retail body for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67408\/new-online-retail-body-for-sa\/\"><strong>New online retail body for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New e-commerce body for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/65576\/sa-e-commerce-body-launches\/\"><strong>New e-commerce body for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Takealot: we will be the biggest e-commerce site in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/58933\/takealot-we-will-be-the-biggest-e-commerce-site-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Takealot: we will be the biggest e-commerce site in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top e-commerce sites in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53652\/top-e-commerce-sites-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top e-commerce sites in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuppichef has once again been named the best e-commerce site in South Africa at the uAfrica eCommerce Awards held in Midrand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[2065,26,6634,5189],"class_list":["post-67576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-e-commerce","tag-headline","tag-uafrica","tag-yuppiechef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576","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=67576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67584,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576\/revisions\/67584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}