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LEROY MERLIN TO OPEN DOORS IN FOURWAYS NATURE

eroy Merlin, the leading home improvement retailer in Europe and the
third largest worldwide is now gearing up to open its fourth store in
LFourways this year.

Leroy Merlin ensures that we have everything a customer would need to
build their dream home. They can shop from many departments including
construction –with a very e cient drive thru– bathroom, kitchen, home decor,
garden, hardware, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, tools, fi x&fasten, storage
and lighting. Products range from the best locally produced brands and
products, to the most superior internationally sourced items, 40% of which are
imported from Europe.

Building brand new experiences
Besides its unique oƒ ering, customers will experience a modern store with
showrooms to inspire and infographics to better understand how to choose
and how to install products. Leroy Merlin also oƒ ers services to make their
customers lives easier, some of these services include free WiFi, click-and-
collect within hours, a price guarantee, a three month easy return policy,
lay-by and many other product related services like free wood cutting, blinds,
curtains, curtain rods and more.

Leroy Merlin collaborates with various partners to provide services like tool
hire with Coastal Hire, contractor and installation services with Kandua, Key
cutting with JTSI to name a few. Mugg & Bean is also in store to satisfy any
hunger or thirst.

DIY to your door, wherever you are
The amazing range does not stop in store.
Shop the comprehensive range online
at your convenience. “Leroy Merlin
really believes in the potential of the THE YEAR OF THE ZEBRA
country and other stores are already
in preparation,” states Cédric
Sennepin, Leroy Merlin South Africa BY JAMES CLARKE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY BROADLEY
Country Leader. He continues to say,
“I really think that our new concept Science has established that zebras are, Skukuza. All the sand roads were
we call phygital, the best of physical closed.
and the best of digital, oƒ ers a basically, white animals with black stripes
unique experience that South We’d visited the park three months
African customers deserve and and not the other way around. earlier to report on the effects of
when I see the energy and the the collapse in tourism and the
pleasure our team members closure of camps. Panic Dam near
show towards their work, I am ne of the most companions, the blue wildebeest, Skukuza - the park’s premier hide -
very confi dent that we will notable things appeared to be totally outnumbered was padlocked. We feared it would
succeed.” we found in this season, maybe by as much as still be closed this time but, to our
rain-soaked 10 to one. The two tend to graze joy, the gate was unlocked. A notice
Their sales consultants are Kruger Park last together because zebra prefer announced that only 10 people were
month was the
impatiently waiting to O high number taller grasses and this opens up the allowed at a time, though nobody
shorter stuff favoured by wildebeest. was around to count. Under normal
welcome customers and of zebras. Oh yes, and of course circumstances the hide can take
provide assistance to make how green it was. I cannot recall Their association is also said to three or four times that number.
their homes the best place to live. seeing so much vigorous growth have a survival purpose because Twice, on separate days, we had
and so much water even after the one of them, and I am not sure the entire hide to ourselves.
Millennium Flood. he grass was which, is said to be more alert
as high as an elephant’s eye and than the other and likely to spot a But it was the sight of so many
2021 is surely going to be noted in predator in time. Certainly you will zebras that enthralled us. Whenever
the park as the year of the zebras. I never catch zebra, all heads down we saw zebra, mostly in small herds
have never seen so many. at the same time, grazing. There’ll and at the roadside, we were able to
always be some on the lookout. get quite close. They were unfazed
GREENSTONE LITTLE FALLS BOKSBURG FOURWAYS One tends to take the Burchell’s and we were able to study them
Corner Blackrock Street Corner Hendrik Potgieter Corner North Rand Road 2021
& Stoneridge Drive, Road & Cascades Road, & Trichardt Road, Coming soon... zebra, the plains zebra, for granted. It Our observations were, of course, and wonder anew what their bizarre
Greenstone Park Ext 2, Little Falls, Bartlett AH, Corner Fourways is a species instantly recognised and highly subjective for we only had stripes were all about.
Edenvale Roodepoort Boksburg Bld & Roos St, associated with Africa all over the world. access to the southwestern corner Nobody really knows. Each animal
Witkoppen, The zebra’s favourite grazing
Sandton between the Phabeni Gate and has a different pattern – a bit
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