{"id":1018621,"date":"2026-07-03T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018621"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:43:39","slug":"pick-n-pay-launches-ai-grocery-shopping-assistant-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/pick-n-pay-launches-ai-grocery-shopping-assistant-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick n Pay launches AI grocery shopping assistant in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African retailer Pick n Pay on Thursday launched an artificial intelligence-powered shopping assistant that helps customers build grocery orders using voice, text or photos instead of searching for products manually. <\/p>\n<p>The move is part of a drive by South Africa&#8217;s second-biggest retailer by revenue to \u200cstrengthen its \u2060online \u2060offering as it pursues a turnaround after years of weak trading and market share losses to larger rival Shoprite. <\/p>\n<p>Shoprite&#8217;s Checkers Sixty60 platform dominates South Africa&#8217;s fast-growing \u200bon-demand grocery market, pushing rivals to invest heavily in digital tools and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African retailer Pick n Pay on Thursday launched an artificial intelligence-powered shopping assistant that helps customers build grocery orders using voice, text or photos instead of searching for products manually. The move is part of a drive by South Africa&#8217;s second-biggest retailer by revenue to \u200cstrengthen its \u2060online \u2060offering as it pursues a turnaround after years of weak trading and market share losses to larger rival Shoprite. Shoprite&#8217;s Checkers Sixty60 platform dominates South Africa&#8217;s fast-growing \u200bon-demand grocery market, pushing rivals to invest heavily in digital tools and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018622,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018621\/revisions\/1018622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}