Operations
As of August, there are a total of 104 Countdown supermarkets operating throughout the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Major store operations are handled in Progressive Enterprises's head office in Mangere, Auckland. The stores are divided in between 10 areas. Each area has an Area Manager, and all areas are support by a National Operations Manager. Previously, the areas were split in North and South regions, with 5 areas each.
Pricing and specials are divided into two regions: North Island and South Island. Internally, the North Island region is further subdivided into two sub-divisions: Upper and Lower, which are only used for competition against main competitor Foodstuffs (who have two pricing regions in the North Island).
Countdown also provides New Zealand wide services through its online grocery shop.
Read more about this topic: Countdown (supermarket)
Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)