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New Sixty60 threat looms for Clicks and Dis-Chem
['Hilton Tarrant']
The Citizen
Shoprite Group has been unambiguous: Sixty60 is the “single consumer platform to enable one-hour delivery for all of the Group’s corporate banners”.
Sixty60 is Shoprite’s (not-so) secret weapon and allows the group to compete against the two established large pharmacy groups, Clicks and Dis-Chem, with an uneven advantage.
The ‘location’ advantageCompetition in the pharmacy market is restricted by the number of licences issued by government.
Dis-Chem has a smaller footprint of 316 stores, but its stores tend to be far larger than Clicks.
Once it does, Dis-Chem and Clicks will have to deal with a bigger headache than other retail groups rolling out physical pharmacies.