Chantel is frying onions, Greg is flipping burgers, Lovayne is cutting tomatoes and rolls and Bonnie and Craig are circulating, hovering and helping. There are 150 burgers to go. The East London Surf Lifesaving Club is humming with young and old as the rain clears and a calm, washed, sparkling clean Friday evening sunset settles in.
It bills itself as the ‘friendly’, family store wherever you are. But revelations in court suggest it’s been less than friendly to the owners operating the stores bearing its name. And its tactics have come in for searing criticism from our courts. Is Spar losing its way?