History
PAK'nSAVE was developed as a result of a trip by a number of Foodstuffs executives to the United States in 1985. On that visit they saw Cub Foods, operated by SuperValu, Pak'n Save operated by Safeway, and a number of other box warehouse supermarkets. Foodstuffs then copied this format in the New Zealand market. The original PAK'nSAVE format was almost an identical clone of Safeway's Pak 'N' Save chain in Northern California.
The first PAK'nSAVE opened in 1985, at Kaitaia in the North Island, and the South Island in 1988 at Invercargill. The biggest PAK'nSAVE is Lincoln North PAK'nSAVE in Auckland, which opened in 2004. Stores were opened in the Auckland suburb Mt Wellington in early August 2006 in the new Sylvia Park shopping mall, and on 5 December 2006 in Hawera.
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