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To discuss this matter further I’m joined on the line by Arthur Goldstuck. He’s the MD at World Wide Worx. Thanks very much, Arthur, for joining us. Now, e-commerce expert and Parcelninja founder, Justin Drennan, has raised the alarm that local online retailers can’t afford to rest on their laurels in doing business, because they say international competition like Amazon can quickly make their lives quite difficult. But surely local e-tailers have all the advantages because they’re locally based?
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Founded in 2013 by Justin Drennan, Ryan Drennan, and Terence Murphy, Parcelninja is an e-commerce enabler that offers South African online shops an affordable outsourcing solution for all their fulfilment needs. The startup’s platform integrates with most existing e-commerce engines, offering smart product warehousing, picking and packing, courier optimisation, and real-time reporting. Disrupt Africa reported in February it had been acquired by Imperial, a provider of logistics and market access solutions. The JSE-listed company said Parcelninja was a logical fit for Imperial and would help the company strengthen its digital offerings. Speaking to the latest edition of Disrupt Podcast, Justin Drennan, who has a strong track record in the South African e-commerce space, said Parcelninja had sold 60 per cent of its busines
Lockdown in 2020 probably marked the year in which the internet changed the way consumers in SA shopped.
Forced to be homebound because of the Covid-19-related lockdown, some consumers embraced online shopping, which also helped them to avoid shopping malls for fear of contracting the virus.
Despite this shift, online shopping in SA is probably still small. It was last measured by independent technology market research group World Wide Worx to account for just 1.4% of total sales in 2018. Online shopping was forecast to grow to 2% by 2022.
The lockdown has forced many retailers especially those selling groceries to invest in their e-commerce platforms to improve the customer experience. But there have also been investments in back-end functions that make online shopping possible, such as payment processing technology and delivery infrastructure.