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An infestation of rats at a Dunedin supermarket prompted an investigation by food safety officials in January. Woolworths New Zealand confirmed an increase in "pest activity" at its Countdown Dunedin ...
WELLINGTON — Publix Super Markets unveiled a new, modern store near the Mall at Wellington Green on Thursday, April 11. The 38,227-square-foot grocery replaced a Fresh Market on the Wellington ...
Photos taken from inside the Dunedin South Countdown store – a subsidiary of Woolies – last week showed two rats sitting on a shelf, peering at customers. The incident wasn’t an isolated one ...
opening its first New Zealand store in Wellington in 1929. It has been 14 years since the Countdown brand slowly replaced Woolworths and Foodtown stores in New Zealand with the last stores ...
at a Countdown supermarket in Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand's government says that from Saturday, it will be the first nation in the world to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket ...
A man has appeared in court after a stabbing outside a central Wellington supermarket on Thursday night. Police were called to the Lambton Quay Countdown just before 8pm. The victim was taken to ...
Countdown has announced that its employees across Aotearoa will receive average wage increases of 19% over the next two years, thanks to a new collective agreement ...
A Wellington man said ... Jarrod Smith, Countdown's eCommerce national logistics and network manager told the Herald safety is the supermarket's "absolute priority". "Yesterday's incident is ...
Nearby demolition and warmer weather has attracted mice to a popular Wellington supermarket. A Countdown spokesperson ... warmer and the construction work near the Newtown location, a "small ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- An ISIS-inspired terrorist stabbed six people at an Auckland supermarket on Friday before police who had him under surveillance shot him dead, New Zealand Prime Minister ...
The stabbing frenzy put five people in hospital, including two staff members, after the armed man entered a Countdown supermarket ... Picture: Mark Tantrum/Wellington International Airport via ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Shoppers and staff at a New Zealand supermarket were being praised for their bravery Monday after authorities said they managed to stop a frenzied man from hurting ...