How It All Began
From three small stores whose shelves Raymond and Wendy Ackerman kept stocked themselves, to a sprawling national conglomerate with 1500 stores, the story of Pick n Pay is one that is told in milestones.
1967
Raymond Ackerman purchases
3 Pick n Pay stores from Jack Goldin.
1983
No Name products appear
in stores for the first time.
1975
The first Pick n Pay
Hypermarket opens.
1992
25th Anniversary,
where Raymond Ackerman emphasised
“PEOPLE POWER”
in everything that Pick n Pay does.
1994
We venture into franchising, with the first 6 Pick n Pay Family stores. A post-election strike leads to a historic agreement being struck between Pick n Pay and SACCAWU.
1997
Pick n Pay Financial Services
is launched.
1999
Formation of the
Ackerman Family Council,
with an initial investment of R30 million into community upliftment. Fresh FM starts broadcasting.
2007
Rebranding
2011
FreshLiving launches.
1996
The VUSELELA
(Rebirth)
programme is born, rethinking our position in order to lead retail into the 21st century.
1998
The Hypermarket arm of the business is consolidated into it’s own separate division, taking it’s cue from France’s Carrefour chain - the model Ackerman used when building the first Hypermarket.
2001
We begin to offer
online shopping.
2017
50th birthday