New World is a
New Zealand
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full-service
supermarket
A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earli ...
chain
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. Each store is independently owned and operated, and is part of one of two
Foodstuffs
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ing ...
' co-operatives (Foodstuff North Island and Foodstuffs South Island). Other independently owned and operated members of the Foodstuffs co-operatives include
Pak'nSave
PAK'nSAVE (stylised PAK'nSAVE, originally PAK 'N SAVE) is a New Zealand discount food warehouse chain owned by the Foodstuffs cooperative. It is one of the three main supermarket chains, alongside Countdown and New World.
There are 56 stor ...
and
Four Square
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stores.
History
Founded in 1963, New World was the first American-style full-service supermarket brand of Foodstuffs, and the second in New Zealand (after
Foodtown
Foodtown was a New Zealand supermarket chain owned by Progressive Enterprises. As with Woolworths, the Foodtown brand was phased out in the late 2000s, with all stores rebranded as Countdown by the end of 2011. Foodtown supermarkets were t ...
). As of December 2021, there are more than 140 New World supermarkets across the North and South Islands. New World has been a member of the
Fly Buys program since the program started in September 1996.
In early 2003 New World helped introduce
Superbank
: ''See Superbank (surfing) for the surf spot on the Gold Coast, Australia.''
Superbank was a Joint venture, joint-venture retail bank in New Zealand, operated by St.George Bank, St George Bank in association with the New Zealand grocery-retaile ...
, a completely electronic banking network aimed at saving customers money. While New World Supermarkets had much advertising for the service in their stores, Superbank had no physical services inside the store. In August 2006 it was announced that after heavy losses Superbank would be shut down and have its portfolio sold to GE Capital.
Historically, New World used a
coupon
In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product.
Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods
or by retailers, to be used in r ...
saver system. This was replaced in 2014 in South Island stores by the Clubcard system; this was phased into North Island stores in 2016.
Brands
New World
New World is the brand name of the chain's full-service supermarkets, selling
groceries
A grocery store ( AE), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, a ...
and
liquor
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.
The first store opened in 1963.
There are 142 stores under this brand, including 26 in Auckland.
New World Metro
New World Metro is a brand of smaller supermarkets in central city locations, also selling groceries and liquor. The first store, in Wellington CBD, opened in 2002.
There are currently four stores, in
Wellington CBD,
Wellington railway station
Wellington railway station, or Wellington Central station, is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand, and is the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, Wairarapa Line and Johnsonville Line.
The station opened in ...
,
Auckland CBD
The Auckland Central Business District (CBD), or Auckland city centre, is the geographical and economic heart of the Auckland metropolitan area. It is the area in which Auckland was established in 1840, by William Hobson. It is New Zealand's lea ...
and
Takapuna, Auckland
Takapuna is a suburb located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is situated at the beginning of a south-east-facing peninsula forming the northern side of the Waitematā Harbour. While very small in terms of population, it ...
.
New World Fresh Collective
New World Fresh Collective is a brand of small supermarkets in Auckland, focusing on fresh produce, premium products and meal kits.
The first store opened in
Mairangi Bay
Mairangi Bay is a coastal suburb of North Shore, Auckland, located in the northern North Island of New Zealand, on the south-east-facing peninsula forming the northern side of the Waitematā Harbour. Mairangi Bay came under the local governance ...
in 2017,
then others in
Mount Albert and
Glen Innes.
Foodstuffs planned to open ten stores,
but the Mount Albert store is the only one still operating.
Private label brands
New World has the
house brand
A private label, also called a private brand or private-label brand, is a brand owned by a company, offered by that company alongside and competing with brands from other businesses. A private-label brand is almost always offered exclusively by th ...
Pams
PAMS Productions, Inc. (an acronym for Production, Advertising and Merchandising Service), based in Dallas, Texas, was one of the most famous jingle production companies in American broadcasting. It produced identification packages for radio stat ...
, which has been around since 1937 – owned by parent company
Foodstuffs
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ing ...
and are also available across their
retailer's cooperative.
Gallery
File:New World supermarket, Dunedin.jpg, Centre City New World in Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
File:New World, Warkworth.jpg, Warkworth New World
File:New World Wanganui.jpg, Whanganui
Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whangan ...
New World
See also
References
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Supermarkets of New Zealand
Retail companies established in 1963
New Zealand companies established in 1963