Salma Muhammad, Bhamjee’s Shoe CentreJohannesburg, Gauteng, SA – It’s an absolute disaster. For the year up to December, we’ve been trading at 50% of what we normally trade at, and this month – when we would expect turnover to be much, much higher, we’re trading at what we would normally trade for the r ...more

Greg Bing, A.P. JonesCape Town, W. Cape, SA – Business is terrible.We have had a very warm and dry May, and a shop full of jerseys and other warm winter ware, and that has had a major impact on our trade. Only in the last 48 hours has it started getting cold and wet.There has been a lot of scepticism about the elections, and combine ...more

Mark Kingon, Kingon'sEast London, E. Cape, SA - We opened on the 27th and closed on the1st      We were running a birthday sale of 20% off everything for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Thursday was very poor, Friday was very good and Saturday seems to be slow but Ok!      The ...more

Readers will note that most respondents this week are from the Western Cape. This is probably because I emailed Western Cape retailers earlier on Saturday than retailers in KZN and Gauteng. I will attempt to get responses from a much wider geographical spread this week for the newsletter to come out on Tuesday next week.Peter Allen, Burto ...more

Cape Town, W. Cape, SA - It was the hottest June in three decades (so we are told?) and one should not expect to be “breaking records” when we all have a shop full of winter goods. Despite all of this, June started a slight upswing and we were up on 2021.      July 2022 took us by surprise. The Ca ...more

A.P. Jones: A slow trickle, and glad of itFish Hoek, W Cape, SA – It has been a slow trickle since last Saturday. We are extremely fortunate in that we do have a slow trickle. There are so many businesses out there who have not been able to open and we feel for them. I think that it is all going to be about expectation (or the lack ...more