PAK’nSAVE closed due to devastating shootings that killed 2

New Zealand’s largest Pak’nSave supermarket will remain closed for days after being inundated by floodwaters on Friday night.

Staff are working around the clock to address “extensive” flood damage to the Wairau Road store on Auckland’s North Shore, but Foodstuffs cannot yet estimate a reopening date.

“Our goal is days, not weeks,” the company said in an update issued Tuesday.

“The flood damage was extensive and the sheer size of this store means getting it ready for re-opening is a huge exercise.”

Four of the company’s stores were impacted by flooding, including the New World Newmarket store, which has been open only four months. Owner-operator Matt Hayward and his team managed to get the store cleaned up and back trading at 7am Tuesday.

Hayward said Friday’s deluge happened “incredibly fast” and there was nothing staff could do to prevent the inundation.

“I’d popped out to fetch something from a local hardware store and I got a call from one of the team to say the water was rushing in. I got back as quickly as I could and the store was already underwater,” he recalls.

New Zealand’s largest Pak’nSave supermarket will remain closed for days after being inundated by floodwaters on Friday night.

 

Staff are working around the clock to address “extensive” flood damage to the Wairau Road store on Auckland’s North Shore, but Foodstuffs cannot yet estimate a reopening date.

 

“Our goal is days, not weeks,” the company said in an update issued Tuesday.

 

“The flood damage was extensive and the sheer size of this store means getting it ready for re-opening is a huge exercise.”

 

Four of the company’s stores were impacted by flooding, including the New World Newmarket store, which has been open only four months. Owner-operator Matt Hayward and his team managed to get the store cleaned up and back trading at 7am Tuesday.

 

Hayward said Friday’s deluge happened “incredibly fast” and there was nothing staff could do to prevent the inundation.

 

“I’d popped out to fetch something from a local hardware store and I got a call from one of the team to say the water was rushing in. I got back as quickly as I could and the store was already underwater,” he recalls.