Choppies Tsabong

Choppies Tsabong is a supermarket of the Choppies chain at the TM complex in Tsabong (also spelt Tshabong), in Botswana's Kgalagadi District. Botswana Daily News, the government news service, reported the store's opening on 25 August 2019 as the chain's 89th supermarket. At its opening it employed 79 people, most of them Tsabong residents. It was officially opened by Tsabong's deputy chief, Richard Toto. The store manager at the time, Joel Monnaemang, said the supermarket would buy fresh produce such as vegetables from the community and asked local farmers to prepare to supply fresh meat. Choppies began in 1986 with a single store, Wayside Supermarket, opened in Lobatse by the Chopdat family, and is headquartered in Gaborone. The company listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange in 2012 and had 161 stores in four countries by 2024. Across the chain, its Botswana website lists its departments as fresh produce, bakery, groceries, butchery, takeaways and financial services. Tsabong is the administrative centre of the Kgalagadi District, in the Kalahari Desert, and had 8,939 residents at the 2011 census. The Tshabong kimberlite field is one of the largest diamond-bearing kimberlite fields in the world, and the town is the site of Botswana's coldest recorded temperature. Opening hours, a branch telephone number and which of the chain's departments operate at Tsabong have not been published online.

X9HX+4R4, Tshabong, Botswana
Tshabong

TM complex

26°1′20″S 22°23′59″E