{"id":98649,"date":"2015-09-17T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98649"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:30:01","slug":"these-are-south-africas-best-e-commerce-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/98649\/these-are-south-africas-best-e-commerce-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"The best e-commerce stores in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuppiechef.com has once again been named\u00a0South Africa&#8217;s best e-commerce store at the uAfrica.com 10th annual e-commerce Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, the uAfrica e-commerce Awards were handed out at an industry conference, but for the 10th iteration, the event was given its very own awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Takealot.com was voted as South Africa&#8217;s favourite e-commerce store, having received the popularity vote from the South African public.<\/p>\n<p>According to uAfrica, the public voting drew over 90,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Groupon SA leads,\u00a0Daniel Guasco and Wayne Gosling received an award for achievement in e-commerce, and founder and co-owner of SassyChic Fashion &amp; Lingerie, Karen Spies, took home the award for best female entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of all the award winners:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">Award<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">Winner<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">South Africa&#8217;s Favourite eCommerce Website<\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best e-commerce Store<\/td>\n<td>Yuppiechef.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best Shopping Process<\/td>\n<td>Yuppiechef.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best Customer Service<\/td>\n<td>Action Gear<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best e-commerce Services Platform<\/td>\n<td>bidorbuy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best Small e-commerce Business<\/td>\n<td>Kapas Baby and Toddler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best e-commerce Mobile Site<\/td>\n<td>Takealot.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">E-commerce Achievement<\/td>\n<td>Daniel Guasco and Wayne Gosling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Best Female Entrepreneur<\/td>\n<td>Karen Spies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The winners were selected from a pool of 50 top websites, which went through a second round of adjudication after being\u00a0narrowed down from over 200 entrants.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00a0are the top 50 e-commerce websites, in alphabetical order, as adjudicated by uAfrica.com.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Action Gear<\/li>\n<li>&amp;Threads<\/li>\n<li>bidorbuy.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Boost Gymwear<\/li>\n<li>Cape Coffee Beans<\/li>\n<li>Esque<\/li>\n<li>Flook Sport &amp; Travel<\/li>\n<li>Futurama<\/li>\n<li>Gemboree<\/li>\n<li>Groupon South Africa<\/li>\n<li>HomeChoice<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s About Time<\/li>\n<li>iToys<\/li>\n<li>Juniva.com<\/li>\n<li>Kapas Baby &amp; Toddler<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen Chef<\/li>\n<li>League of Beers<\/li>\n<li>Legwear Safari<\/li>\n<li>LekkeSlaap<\/li>\n<li>Loot.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Macaroon Collection<\/li>\n<li>Madame Boudoir<\/li>\n<li>Mantality<\/li>\n<li>Norman Goodfellows<\/li>\n<li>Nutreats<\/li>\n<li>Orange SA<\/li>\n<li>Orms Direct<\/li>\n<li>Ozzie Bojangles<\/li>\n<li>Port2Port<\/li>\n<li>Quantifi<\/li>\n<li>Quicket<\/li>\n<li>Raru<\/li>\n<li>Red Square<\/li>\n<li>RunwaySale<\/li>\n<li>SafariNow<\/li>\n<li>SassyChic.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Seeds for Africa<\/li>\n<li>Simplicity.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Spree<\/li>\n<li>Superbalist.com<\/li>\n<li>takealot.com<\/li>\n<li>TravelGround<\/li>\n<li>Travelstart<\/li>\n<li>Vinyl Cafe<\/li>\n<li>WebAntics Online<\/li>\n<li>Wellness Warehouse<\/li>\n<li>Wootware<\/li>\n<li>Yuppiechef.com<\/li>\n<li>Zando<\/li>\n<li>ZumbaWear South Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-commerce<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Africa\u2019s booming e-commerce economy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/88234\/africas-booming-e-commerce-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Africa\u2019s booming e-commerce economy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to WordPress acquires SA e-commerce platform\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/87998\/wordpress-acquires-sa-e-commerce-platform\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WordPress acquires SA e-commerce platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top e-commerce friendly countries in Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/76226\/top-e-commerce-friendly-countries-in-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top e-commerce friendly countries in Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s best and favourite online stores have been named at the 10th annual uAfrica.com eCommerce Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,3314,5189],"class_list":["post-98649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-takealot","tag-yuppiechef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98649","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=98649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98669,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98649\/revisions\/98669"}],"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=98649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}