Woolworths Expands School Tuckshop Partnership to Curro Century City

Woolworths Expands School Tuckshop Partnership to Curro Century City. Woolworths Foods has expanded its presence in school tuckshops, partnering with Curro Century City in Cape Town to operate a second Woolworths-run facility within a South African private school. The move follows an earlier partnership with Springfield Convent in Wynberg.

The retailer, known for its private-label food products that it says are 100 percent non-genetically modified, now supplies and operates tuckshops at both schools using its own staff. Woolworths said the initiative is aimed at supporting learners in making everyday food choices while promoting a positive relationship with food from a young age.

Springfield Convent was the first school to introduce a Woolworths tuckshop in 2023, with the facility operating from a converted shipping container. Curro Century City became the second school to adopt the model on Monday, 26 January 2026.

The Curro tuckshop operates as a cashless facility. Learners pay using bank cards or the Karri App, a digital payments platform that allows parents to monitor spending and plan meals in advance. The Karri App, launched in 2024, is designed to reduce cash use in schools and is used by more than 1,500 private and public schools nationwide. Both Woolworths tuckshops are cashless, and menus are accessible through the app.

Parents can load up to R25,000 onto the Karri App for school-related payments. Curro stated that the partnership aims to provide learners with food options that are healthy, high quality, and offered in portions and at prices suited to their age group.

Curro Holdings, founded in 1998 by Chris van der Merwe, has grown from a single school with 28 learners into a large private education group with more than 180 schools and over 70,000 students across Southern Africa. In the Western Cape, the group operates 36 schools, including three on the Century City campus.