Checkers Hyper Shallcross

Maritza Stella2026-1-23

On Monday, 19-01-2026, I bought two packets of chicken from Checkers Hyper Shallcross one to cook for supper that night and one to store in the refrigerator. On 22-01-2026 I took the frozen chicken out to defrost. Already in a severe flare up of my fibromyalgia, I was in too much pain to cook so I stopped at Checkers to buy ingredients for pasta and also picked up a package of two fat cakes with chicken mayonnaise filling. From the top, the fat cakes looked perfect. However when I got home and removed one from the container I immediately noticed something wet at the bottom. On squeezing it a lot of oil came out, …

Marlene Govender

The bakery over the counter sells stale items to customers. The scones, doughnuts etc are bad tasting and hard. Checkers why are you robbing us.

Ntwenhle Hlongwa2024-8-6

They’re selling bottles of sunscreen that expired in 2022 with erased dates on it for R100, and they scan at R113 at the till. Misrepresenting the new batches by mixing them with the old batch and barcoding those at R224, basically double the price. Both were brought to the counter and no1cared to mention it had expired nearly two years ago. If I hadn’t already read the different dates and taken from behind the front line, I might have believed the merchandiser when he said I didn’t read properly. I had to raise the expiry point myself. With no recourse still. The only options presented was to BUY the expired 202…