Flaxmere's only supermarket to close

[Jan]

Can  bet  Foodstuffs will  retain  a    lease onthe  building to prevent  Wooolworths opening  up  there  .  They did  similar in Upper huutt buying up all  commercial  vacant  properties  to  keep CD out . But  They eventually bought a  whole block of  small shops    &  built their  supermarket  .  Foxton  has  less  people thanFlaxmere  but it  has  a supermarket .  They just dont want to rebuild  instead  force shoppers into the city  & big    box  shopping  .

Foodstuffs don’t own the building so the landlord is able to lease it to one of the rival companies Jacinda and the ComCom claimed were being stopped entering the market by the duopoly .Woolworths have expressed no interest in opening in Flaxmere - the nearest PaknSave is only 8km away - the people of Flaxmere chose not to support the New World so the owner operator could not keep trading with not enough customers -there is a very good Four Square in Flaxmere