Five months after its CEO sparked a controversy by calling for a moratorium on the hiring of whites, pharmacy group Dis-Chem confirmed it has taken a hit, estimating that between 5% to 8% of its white, coloured and Asian chronic medicine clients ditched the group.
However, legal threats surrounding the furore had died down, with Solidarity abandoning its case. And while Dis-Chem's share price has taken a large hit since October, analysts say much of this was due to a sell-off in retail stocks as the economic environment soured. During a recent investor briefing that covered the period 1 September 2022 to 5 February 2023, Dis-Chem chief financial officer Rui Morais said the company's"analytics engine" had broken down its customer loyalty to the company by race, using SA's top 1 000 surnames in its research.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.
its probably double that
Hahahah get some. Dischem your doors will close. Racists
What's the fuss? Isn't this what BEEEEEE is all about
We dont care hle😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I will never buy from Dis Chem again
👍👍🖕
They can close down for all I care
I love how they're Trina bring in Coloured people in to it
A dumpster fire for shareholders turning into a dumpster fire at a train wreck.
Good
Nice vat so
Thank you for the support from our coloured and Asian compatriots.
Dis chem supports zionist israel
Go woke, go broke
Mwaaaaahhhh.. cry sob waaah
Good riddance. I hope they also left the country
Clicks rather...
Disc-Chem Investors also invested in these companies. Should whites walk away from them ?
Spreading lies yet again. Did speak with these customers to confirm? Show us the stats and release this article for free so that we can interrogate your story.
I don't trust this s White liberal media.
GoWokeGoBroke
CapeIndependence is coming
Well at least they have the guts to say it vs the other companies. So much so for equal opportunity employment. It's disgraceful in today's day and age that you cannot consider candidates equally. ZA was given a gift which it decides to squander. The ramifications could be deadly
Dischem I will never shop at racist Dischem again.
So 5-8% of the 7,65% of whites in SA, if all whites buy at Dischem. We really need to take that 8%’s needs more serious…
The day the black majority understands such power, the racist arrogant white establishment in this country will crash very fast
This will happen if you turn against your own people just for money.
This is simply a campaign to either dismiss black employees to make way for more whites. In divided but is shallow way. Employment equity is a reality that is necessary, Dis-Chem has take bold step and must be supported.
Well atleast they kept the 92/98% of those demographics, nothing to complain about here,they will be back in the next financial year
A least he now has 5.8 billion rand less and independent pharmacies are making more.. With far better service and friendliness
We as black people of this country we are supporting D is Chen we are not here to destroy your country due to preserve colour and white dominance
Good the f&cking racists must go insolvent
With no violent protests or trashing stores
Go woke go broke.
I am one of those. Took my business to a family owed pharmacy. As a matter of fact. Purchasing all my goods at family owed businesses. Agricultural, medical, hardware and so forth. Cancelled life policies also. Buying gold and silver. I will not fund an agenda anymore.
Dischem must go down....
It's fine..
Hmmm, are the others showing us where their ( lets say) 'loyalty ' lies? Pathetic.
I will NEVER step foot in their stores!
Pleasant surprise that my small neighbourhood pharmacy could beat Discems prices on cronic medication. Saving some money and socking it to the racists - priceless!!
Black people why do u guys follow this news24 bullsht!!!...u guys are mad .unfollow news 24, unsubscribe..know your worth
Keep on hiring incompetent people and this is what u get. Reverse racism at play
And we have not been back since
So all the racists outed themselves? Nice
Will not ever purchase anything from Dischem again. We will do to racism today, what we did with racism pre'94. A gun is not the only weapon. Violence not the only path. CyrilRamaphosa does not understand that.
Good. And we never going back.
It's incredible how racism towards white people is encouraged... if we want to become a non racial society we need to allow equal opportunity for every individual despite what they look like. It's not fucking rocket science. Society is getting more incompetent by the day...
Go woke = go broke
Clicks is the best
Good!!
I think we deserve to know where those Whites went to, and if those companies recognise Black people. Otherwise, azikhale at those companies
Hhawu kanti coloured and Asians are also white?🤔
doodlehabibi We will do the same to the anc
Great news!!!
SolidariDirk It starts enough is enough!!!!!!! And u thought ANC had a revolution u haven't seen people standing up that has brains
It's good - discrimination should not be allowed
great ... this racism must stop !!!
Lol coloureds and Asian? Maybe it's coz we're not doing well as a country. People just go where the prices are lower.
Serves them right for being racist
When dischem fails, we all lose. Transformation will continue and the fight against it is short sighted. At the end, medication will be sold by transformed organizations.
Good riddance
Goeie werk
Tired of this white supremacy thing.
I still get my chronic meds there, but I no longer use the delivery service. It’s AWFUL!
Mxm
SolidariDirk We whites not allowed to buy at dischem
By the way, how are they keeping track of all the races? 😆
Go woke, go broke. Simple.
An indication that racism will never win
No more Dis Chem racism. Do not support them, it starts with us.
Coloured? Wow! 😂😂😂😭
Ironically the boicotters are likely to have moved to a dufferent company with the exact same policy. They just don't get is spashed on social media.
White people, do know how to vote with their wallets
Good thing it means you just lost racist consumers
SolidariDirk Love it
Kry vir jou, jou box
Kry vir jou, jou box
Chronic patients all die in the short run anyway. This is at most a short-lived inconvenience.
This publication is clearly a propaganda tool to maintain the status quo.
This guy looks like Stephen Hawkins
Coloured people were so upset at white people being supposedly excluded that they actually changed where they get their chronic medication from? Literally risking their lives? How does this even make sense?
Karen gang “I’m leaving Di-Chem Chantal”
I ALL RACE GROUPS IN THEIR SHOPS ALL OVER ALL THR TIME...SOMEHTING SOUNDS FISHY ABOUT THIS CLAIM
SolidariDirk We will carry on ditching Dis-Chem. They are ANC lackeys afraid of their BEE rating. Private pharmacies will reap the rewards and medical aids must take note of this trend and stop insisting that members be supplied by Dis-Chem by giving a 25% discount!
Stick to the plan. Racism has its purpose
Any form of racism should be met with strong and decisive action...and so Dischem has learnt a hard lesson!
Wait till Blacks ditch Dis-Chem
I haven't been back to Dischem since this incident, I now go to Clicks_SA
It takes years to build a good reputation but it can be trashed in seconds. It must be defended at all costs.
Lesson learned the hard way. Racism has no place in South Africa. B-BBEE is racism!
Hogwash!!! You guys will say and do anything to promote white superiority
Excellent
Those that ditched dischem are racist !
You brought it in yourself .
1. Dischem racially profiles their clients? 2. Where did the 5-8% go
Why would anyone want to 'ditch' Dischem over a factual statement? If anything, them admitting they had a problem and were going to fix it made me MORE likely to shop there... It's been great so far. Far less racist, antivaxx arseholes and other Karens.
Let them go focus on majority
I didn't ditch Dischem ... Quite the opposite... I've increased my shopping with them. It's awesome without those grumpy farts... And their offerings are superb...
My self and my whole family don’t support Dis-Chem. go woke go broke.
I dont shop there either and never will go back.These kinds of people push out this stuff to save their own skins, so the working class fights amongst themselves - while leaving the elitist to go on freely. If they really did care about any of that pandering, they would vacate.
Dischem Challenge is still on: Go in & fill trolley: large items = 1 pt ea small items = 5 pts ea Leave trolley in queue, walk out = 50 pts Ring up items & 'forget wallet ', walk out = 5000 pts
That 92 % is lost in France!
Small things. As long as black people are still buying you good. You don’t want to see us boycott. I find it funny nobody ever speaks of that. Let’s also not go into who the labour is that keeps ALL SA BUSINESS alive
😂😂👌Soon ANC is going to make SA another Zimbabwe they just can't accept without some whites they won't survive long
Maybe we volunteer to be security guards by Dis-chem and turn back all black from buying there.
Let those clients go fly a kite.
Oh dear, what now?
He'll survive
Good. Fuckem.
Stopped supporting Dischem purely because it costs me less at private pharmacy
Many didn't leave because their medical aid forces them to use dischem as a designated service provider.
CoruscaKhaya What about the other 85-92% who stuck with them because they believe in transformation
I buy from Dis-Chem. The buying power of this country rest with the African majority
Now imagine if black people decided to ditch Dis-Chem?
Yho y'all mean business.
👏👏👏 the new SA is supposed to represent all ppl
And hopefully this trend will continue. People should support small unbiased and non- racial pharmacies.
They clearly were not ready for some of the listing requirements or were misinformed that they can operate like they have been......👀
🥳🥳🥳
CoruscaKhaya He should have kept quiet and implemented his strategy without airing it.
least we forget majority of their customers are black
I guess race based policies are offensive to some at least.
I still go and shop there,got not time entertaining noise coming for anti transformation racists
CoruscaKhaya Why cause a problem and when we want to address it, you fight back?
I refuse to believe this, where were such articles when black ppl boycotted products because of racism? This article is to make us believe white people hold the power and we somehow need them. We aren't that stupid please
Ja well....my prescription is at Clicks. High five Dis- Chem
Colored is black by the way. So 8% clients left 92% are fine. What's the big deal 🤷🏽♂️
I guess it's safe to say he didn't include himself in that moratorium.
White erasure is evil. You're telling the young White man who made the sacrifices that he cannot get the job or make the team because he was born White.
All the whites that work for Dischem should walk out, let them employ blacks and see what happens to the company. It will be on its knees in a couple of years, now I know that won’t happen because the whites need their job because they won’t find another one.
As helenzille used to say: Stay woke, go broke.
Dis-chem CEO is just looking for attention
Let them go, afraid of equality tsek off they go.
I love this.
Right 🙄
One of the wisest quotes: 'Don't force yourself to be loved... it's degrading'!
What’s the 5-8% in actual numbers? 44?
Let that be a clear message to corporate South Africa that you disrespect us at your peril. We have for the most part already been removed from most adverts and we are expected to be ok with this. And for the most part, we don't care but this went too far.
Now it's official: Whites, Coloureds, and Indians are on the same WhatsApp group against Africans... 'Black man you're on your own' - Steven Bantu Biko!
BEE is a problem because companies end up hiring someone who's not even qualified for the job. That's why you see Eskom falling and service delivery not meet
Doesn't this show that many of South Africans are tired of the race politics in South Africa?
I still applaud Dischem for their honesty while the other corporate rats doing the same just used minorities as part of a recruitment process knowing they will not really hire them as best candidate. The minorities must now start with the next corporate rat?
And so it comes back to bite you in the ass.
🙄Really Dischem, really LOL
Simply love it. Kry vir julle
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