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New Countdown for Crofton Downs Karen Phelps Countdown has opened its brand new Crofton Downs supermarket in Wellington. The store replaces the previous Countdown store in the same location and marks the 168th Countdown supermarket in New Zealand. Located on Churchill Drive and opened by local MP Peter Dunne, the event marked the culmination of nearly a year long construction. The 3120sqm supermarket closed for an expansion and refurbishment in January 2013 to allow for a larger and more modern supermarket and retail area. Countdown national construction manager Simon Scott says that the original store, built in the seventies, was no longer of a size or design to offer the neighbourhood a good range of product. Countdown had acquired the store in 2003 out of the Woolworths portfolio. The site presented its challenges to the construction process. Perched by the side of a railway track and set into the side of a hill extensive earth and retaining works were required before construction could commence. Ebert Construction was the main contractor on the project and it was the first time that Countdown had worked with this company. The experience proved so positive that Countdown has since contracted Ebert Construction to undertake new store builds on Lincoln Road and St Johns in Auckland. The new store incorporates many of the design elements of Countdown’s new generation stores, and has been carefully designed and constructed to reduce its impact on the environment. It features energy-efficient CO2 refrigeration plant systems, night blinds on refrigerated cabinets, sliding covers on freezers, heat reclaim off the refrigeration coils and energy efficient lighting to help minimise the store’s carbon footprint. The store’s full-service departments range from a large bakery, baking fresh goods daily; an expansive produce section, service deli, seafood
MP Peter Dunne opens the new Countdown Crofton Downs - the event marked the culmination of nearly a year-long construction. department, walk in beer chiller, Lotto outlet and Westpac ATM. The store also features 13 checkouts including four self-serve checkouts so customers can scan and pay for their shopping themselves. The store also includes four retail outlets at the front which will be occupied by the previous pharmacy, a cafe, hairdresser and a further outlet to be filled. Scott says it was important to include the retail outlets as part of the new store
plans as they had previously been there for some time. The Countdown car park has 162 spaces. Countdown managing director Dave Chambers says the $24.7m investment represents the company’s continued commitment to the wider Wellington region, and follows recent new store openings in Petone, Tawa and Newtown. The new store has created 60 new jobs. “It’s no secret we’ve been working to increase our presence in Wellington, and we’ve invested $101 million in the last year opening
new stores and refurbishing our existing stores, with more investment planned," says Chambers. "The customer response to our new stores has been fantastic, and we’ve also been able to employ 380 new people as part of our Countdown team.” Resource consent has also been lodged to build a Countdown in Courtney Place.
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