CONSUMER GOODS REPORT · BEVERAGES

Botswana beverages,
measured by the basket.

BasketIQ publishes intelligence on Botswana's beverages category, built from real receipts collected through a WhatsApp consumer panel. No estimates. No surveys-only. Just what people actually bought.

Q1 2026 · Headline Findings

Three numbers from the Q1 snapshot.

Drawn from 599 classified soft drinks purchases across 500 verified baskets from 168 Gaborone consumers, February to April 2026.

hub
70.8%

of all soft drinks purchases in the Gaborone sample are brands owned by The Coca-Cola Company.

shopping_basket
13.8%

of all verified baskets in the Q1 panel contained at least one soft drinks line item.

payments
P26.89

average spend on the category, per basket that contains a soft drink.

Methodology

How we collect the data.

Every number in a BasketIQ report comes from a real till slip. Consumers in Gaborone send us photographs of their grocery receipts through WhatsApp. We extract line items, match them against a curated product catalog, and aggregate across the panel to produce category-level views.

We do not model, extrapolate, or back-fill. When a sample is small, we say so. When a finding is directional rather than conclusive, we flag it. Every chart in every issue carries the exact sample size it was computed on.

The public Consumer Goods Report series is a teaser of what BasketIQ's panel can answer. Custom questions — brand-level deep dives, retailer-resolved pricing, category-specific cuts, private surveys placed to active shoppers — are available to subscribers on request.