--- title: Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa description: Amazon launches Amazon.co.za in South Africa, entering the e-commerce market dominated by companies like Takealot and Massmart. The launch comes at a time of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa | daily.dev og:description: Amazon launches Amazon.co.za in South Africa, entering the e-commerce market dominated by companies like Takealot and Massmart. The launch comes at a time of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aHP8ESeJk.png og:image:alt: Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon launches Amazon.co.za in South Africa, entering the e-commerce market dominated by companies like Takealot and Massmart. The launch comes at a time of increased online shopping in the country due to the pandemic. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#ecommerce](https://daily.dev/tags/ecommerce) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk"},"datePublished":"2024-05-07T10:27:59.481Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"Amazon launches Amazon.co.za in South Africa, entering the e-commerce market dominated by companies like Takealot and Massmart. The launch comes at a time of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7d1a45e0b4026a0d11bfb848d4ea9fe2?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7d1a45e0b4026a0d11bfb848d4ea9fe2?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-finally-puts-down-e-commerce-roots-in-africa-ahp8esejk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"amazon,ecommerce","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Amazon finally puts down e-commerce roots in Africa"}]} ```