HE WAS a brilliant entrepreneur who had the uncanny knack of knowing what his customers wanted – sometimes long before they even knew it – and was willing to do whatever it took to give it to them.
This attitude allowed Raymond Ackerman to build a supermarket kingdom and it’s why news that the 92-year-old Pick n Pay founder had died peacefully at his home in Cape Town triggered such a flood of affectionate tributes.
“Raymond Ackerman was an outstanding business leader and entrepreneur who placed people first,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in reaction to the news. “We mourn with the Ackerman family as they bid farewell to a husband, father,
