South Africa  Internal Trade

Looking at South Africa's internal trade you will have to look through two very different viewpoints as wide apart as the economic status of the people of South Africa. As a dual economy, it is always interesting to see how it develops on both fronts.

First, let's look at the ingenious new way of delivering essentials to a neighborhood that desperately needs it. Selling enough maize meal to feed 4 people on a weigh-to-pay system, for R5, this unique store has found innovative solutions to keep costs down on nutritional non-perishable food staples. Cwalisa the store, use refillable storage containers and the consumer only pays for the content - no branding, no packaging only good quality products.

The weight-to-pay system is further enhanced with glass bottles that can be refilled with cooking oil and other household liquids as needed, and less needless packaging that only ends up in the streets and landfills. Thus not only providing a cost-effective base product but an environmentally safe one as well.

On the other side of the economic scale, we look at Takealot's Instagram 24-hour marathon Black Friday special planned for this year's 28th November blowout sale. The difference is that you need a smartphone, good internet infrastructure, online bank accounts for payments, and a delivery address to be part of e-commerce. These are just the entry requirements so for Takealot to see the economic viability of a promotion on a live platform sale shows the promise of a growing number of e-commerce consumers. This is also reflected in their growth with over 34% $827 million (ZAR 13,15 billion) revenue increase year to year in March 2022.

The e-commerce market looks so promising that Amazon will start its operations in the first quarter of 2023. With the total e-commerce market in South Africa projected to reach ZAR 98 Billion ($5,6 Billion).

From a shop in a container to a container full of consumer goods being drop shipped - Inspexion's interest in quality consumer goods and the inspection's industry standards gives us the opportunity to help both the entrepreneur and the Takealot reseller. By using inspexion.com as your quality control outsourcing partner you can be assured of your consumer goods quality, without sacrificing your logistics timelines.

With Amazon opening up its local infrastructure in South Africa, management of quality and logistics timelines will be essential for anyone looking to open up an amazon reseller account, contact us today to see how we can streamline the inspections you need to guarantee your quality and delivery timelines.

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