Not only has Shoprite won the first round of the app delivery wars, but it has also quietly been offering banking services to its customers. How did a grocer evolve into such a commanding position, to the point where it has a general manager of financial services? Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak asks Jean Olivier in this latest episode of T2S2’s fintech podcast series.
Here’s how Shoprite started as a grocer and evolved into a bank
Toby Shapshak spoke to Shoprite's financial services GM Jean Olivier
Toby Shapshak
Toby Shapshak is editor-in-chief of Stuff, a Forbes senior contributor and a columnist for Business Day. He has been writing about technology and the internet for 30 years and his TED Global talk on innovation in Africa has over 1,5-million views. He has written about Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian in London. He was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans. He has been featured in the New York Times. GQ said he "has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."
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