South Africans scale back on home renovation work as inflation bites | Business

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Cash-strapped South Africans appear to be dramatically scaling back on home renovations as they reel from the effects of rampant inflation, with top building and hardware groups this week reporting a significant squeeze on earnings and revenues.

People are spending less on home renovations as high inflationary environment brings increasing pressure to bear on consumers.

Cashbuild, which caters to the middle- to lower-income segments, said on Wednesday it expected headline earnings per share for the 26 weeks to 25 December 2022 to fall between 35% to 40% without giving reasons for the drop, adding their range would be between 678.2 centres and 734.8 cents. The news didn't come as much of a surprise to market analysts, who have been expecting a slide in earnings from building materials suppliers after the high base set by the Covid-19 and post-pandemic period over the last couple of years.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

 

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The corner store non tax paying plumbing and supplies are thriving because their prices are at a 50% discount to these big retailers. Way to go! I have no sympathy for these BEE EE AA big retailers, they must fall!

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