Tech With Toby Shapshak: Pick n Pay's AI shopping assistant Penny
Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa · 17 July 2026 · 5m
Speaker 1: This is breakfast with on seven o two. Let's walk thet's. Speaker 2: Talk very mature conversations for a Friday. There's a stunning piece, by the way, in Speaker 2: the business day to day. The bottom line is a column written by tech fundi Speaker 2: Toby Shabchak was, of course, the editor in chief of stuff dot co dot z Speaker 2: and joins us now on the line. Toby, A very good morning to you. Speaker 1: Happy Fria, Happy Fria to you. And I don't say that to all the. Speaker 2: Radio hosts, so listen your ultimate action hero. Otherwise this conversation stops. Speaker 1: Oh man, you know what I grew ut watching. Yes, I mean it's not my Speaker 1: ultimate hero. But when you were talking about it earlier, oh god, I remember all Speaker 1: of those Chuck Norris movies. Speaker 2: Maybe the less the better. Let's move on to why we actually want to talk Speaker 2: to you. Your column is a fascinating read every Friday, and today you're talking about Speaker 2: how pick and pay has just pulled ahead of the pack in terms of the Speaker 2: delivery apps. I know, I think for a lot of people, Checkers sixty sixty is Speaker 2: the one many people use, and increasingly I think Uber Eats is entering that space. Speaker 2: As far as supermarket deliveries. But Pick and Pay is doing so with its impressive Speaker 2: new chatbot called Penny indeed. Speaker 1: And I have to say it's really impressive. And I'm a somewhat jaded, you know, Speaker 1: Medala of a technology journalist. You know, I've been around seeing a lot of new Speaker 1: technologies. Everybody's been raving…
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