Shoppers spent R25.5 billion on Shoprite's Sixty60 delivery app

Shoprite's Sixty60 on-demand grocery platform generated R25.5 billion in sales for the year ended June 2026, pushing the delivery business to roughly $1.6 billion in digital commerce, according to TechCabal.

Sales on the platform grew 34.5% year on year, building on R18.9 billion reported for the year ended June 2025. The earlier figure had already marked a 47.7% jump, according to Shoprite's annual report. This makes Sixty60 one of the fastest-scaling digital commerce operations in Africa, measured by raw sales volume inside a single retail group.

Sixty60's momentum has been consistent through the reporting period. For the six months ended December 28, 2025, the platform recorded R11.9 billion in sales, up 34.6%, as TechCabal reported in March 2026. Over its lifetime, the app has surpassed 100 million cumulative orders, a threshold that underscores how deeply the service has embedded itself into South African grocery shopping habits.

The platform's scale now makes it a material driver of Shoprite's overall performance. TechCentral calculated that Sixty60 accounted for more than a third of Shoprite's growth, with the platform's R6.6 billion sales increase measured against group sales growth of R18.1 billion. Total continuing merchandise sales reached about R270.8 billion, up 7.2%. In other words, a delivery app originally pitched as a convenience feature has become one of the single largest contributors to incremental revenue at Africa's biggest supermarket operator.

Sixty60's sales figures are not disclosed as a separate revenue line in group accounts. They are embedded within the reported sales of Shoprite's underlying retail brands, a structure that tightened after Shoprite acquired the remaining 50% shareholding in Pingo, the delivery partner behind Sixty60, during the 2025 financial year, as noted in the annual report. That integration means Sixty60's economics are now inseparable from the core supermarket business rather than tracked as a standalone venture.

The platform's trajectory dates back years. Shoprite's 2021 report described Checkers Sixty60 as the country's number one grocery app, with more than 1.5 million downloads and rollout to 233 sites, according to Fast Company's 2025 analysis of Shoprite's reporting. From that base, Sixty60 has scaled into a multibillion-rand operation without being spun out as a separate entity — a model that contrasts with how many digital commerce ventures are structured as distinct startups.

For the African tech ecosystem, the numbers carry weight beyond South Africa. Fast Company's analysis framed Sixty60 as a digital sales engine steering Shoprite's broader growth, and the platform is regularly cited by investors and founders as a benchmark for what incumbent retailers can achieve in on-demand grocery delivery. In Nigeria and other emerging markets where grocery delivery startups have struggled with unit economics, Sixty60 demonstrates that a supermarket chain with existing store infrastructure and supply chains can build a logistics-heavy digital business at scale.

The R25.5 billion figure also marks a significant jump from the R18.9 billion reported a year earlier, representing an absolute increase of R6.6 billion — nearly the full value of many standalone African e-commerce companies. MyBroadband's coverage noted that Sixty60 revenue has now surged past the R25 billion mark, while TechCentral's reporting emphasized how the growth contribution has accelerated relative to the group's overall expansion.

Shoprite has not broken out Sixty60 as a standalone segment in its financial statements, and the company's commentary on the platform's profitability remains limited. The next material update will likely come with Shoprite's full-year results presentation, where analysts will be watching whether Sixty60's growth rate can be sustained at current margins and whether the Pingo integration changes how the platform's economics are reported.