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The store, located at Fourways Mall in Johannesburg, replaces the former Game outlet and represents the company’s first visible branding effort since acquiring local retail group Massmart.

Walmart first bought a 51% stake in Massmart in 2010 and completed full ownership in 2022, delisting it from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange shortly after.

The rebranding marks a new chapter for the U.S. giant, which had long relied on Massmart’s brands, Makro, Game, and Builders, to navigate South Africa’s complex retail landscape.

“This move is part of Walmart’s strategy to localise while leveraging its global expertise in logistics and pricing,” analysts told Bloomberg, adding that the group’s Every Day Low Price (EDLP) model will target South Africa’s cost-conscious consumers.

Walmart’s push comes amid a fiercely competitive market dominated by Shoprite, Woolworths, Pick n Pay, SPAR, and others.

Yet, the company appears unfazed. Its entry aligns with the retailer’s global playbook: start local, scale quickly, and offer unbeatable prices.

More Walmart-branded stores are expected to roll out across the country in the coming weeks, with the company signaling plans to strengthen both its physical and online retail presence.

According to the Online Retail in South Africa 2025 report, the country’s e-commerce sector is growing at 38% annually, is now valued at about $7 billion, and is projected to capture 10% of the retail market this year.

Analysts say Walmart’s renewed investment, rather than retreat, shows long-term confidence in Africa’s retail potential.

As one put it: “Walmart’s story in South Africa is no longer about survival. It’s about scale, strategy, and a renewed bet on Africa’s middle class.”

Before I opened the thread I already guess it will be in south africa and especially in Johannesburg' and I wasn't wrong.

Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

Omo! To the poster above, you have no hope for Naija ni?

I knew it would be South Africa before I opened the thread no lies.

I feel cheated by this. On the other hand. Jo~ Burg is a hub for supermarkets

Whatever happen to tinubu ragos.


With all the globe trotting them snub your country to a country that their president sits in one place and fix their country.

It's not a flex.

They come in to run small momma and poppa businesses out of a community.

We don't need them, we are creative enough to have our own...

All thanks to White Europeans, lucky Black South Africans enjoying the blessing of having whites as citizens.


Unfortunately, black South Africans will never appreciate the rare privileges they enjoy for having indigenous Caucasians in South Africa until they chase them away like Zimbabweans

Years ago, I read Walmart was opening somewhere in Lagos?

Disenfranchised:
Whatever happen to tinubu ragos.


With all the globe trotting them snub your country to a country that their president sits in one place and fix their country.

All of you know that its a South Afrixan that posted the above right?

The next place they should come to is Abuja or Port Harcourt for their own peace if not...

Anything they see in that Agbero city they will take.


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

franchasng:
All thanks to White Europeans, lucky Black South Africans, you guys will never know the privileges you enjoy for having indigenous Caucasians

They will never know fr.

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On the basis of this, Nigeria is finished - IPOD wing

I just knew it must be in Southy even before clicking.

awka would have been a better option

We don't need them. We are happy with our neighbourhoods super markets.

franchasng:
All thanks to White Europeans, lucky Black South Africans enjoying the blessing of having whites as citizens.


Unfortunately, black South Africans will never appreciate the rare privileges they enjoy for having indigenous Caucasians in South Africa until they chase them away like Zimbabweans

Ofcourse they do. And they do lick the butts of their caucasian masters on a steady.

Na only their fellow blacks dem dey raise shoulders for.

Next location is Oworonsoki Lagos nigeria

SpaceX:
We don't need them, we are creative enough to have our own...

walmart started in 1962. Can you name one supermarket chain in Nigeria that has last 30 years excluding Lebanese owned?

It can only be South Africa...!

They practically attract everything.

The true and real Giant of Africa.

kpankpangolo:
Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

They won't come American brands know it's not worth it to open shop in Nigeria especially under Tinubu govt where disposable income is at the lowest ever

kpankpangolo:
Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

Try and be a bit patriotic. I personally don’t want them here because they are bringing nothing. We are a nation of traders, all they will do is wipe out existing traders, flood the market with American goods and repatriate their profits abroad.

We don’t want or need fair weather foreign investment in sectors we are already capably operating in that replaces existing locals, we need foreign investment that creates new opportunities in manufacturing agric etc not retail.

Nothing good can come from a man like tinubu.
You can write it in black and white.
He loves globetrotting to visit various countries and see where to hide looted fund.
Let him continue deceiving himself, because come 2027, Aso Rock will be a mirage for him.

Foreign businesses are opening up in Africa, sometimes even with the help of African banks, while they keep denying struggling indigenes the needed funds to fuel their entrepreneurial drives

kpankpangolo:
Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

There must be someone in every family who's role is to disgrace his or her family.

franchasng:
All thanks to White Europeans, lucky Black South Africans enjoying the blessing of having whites as citizens.


Unfortunately, black South Africans will never appreciate the rare privileges they enjoy for having indigenous Caucasians in South Africa until they chase them away like Zimbabweans

here we go, Just like clockwork.. without any time wasting.. post anything positive about South Africa and they shall come,

Falseprofet2:
Years ago, I read Walmart was opening somewhere in Lagos?

You read that in the Dreamland?

Shoprite needs to come back to Nigeria after Buhari chased them away with its defective forex policies that created chronic scarcity of foreign exchange.

Standards is beginning to drop, especially in their cooked food section.

kpankpangolo:
Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

both the federal government and state government where it will
Be located will collect both bribe and settlement before talking about legal tax🤣🤣.

kpankpangolo:
Let them not get ideas to come our way. They will lose money. Our 230M population doesn’t translate to profit.

The population with money are Lagos, Abuja and Rivers and with BAT's economy thats like 4 million people.