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Opening day, Foodtown Takanini

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Opening day, Foodtown Takanini

The second supermarket in New Zealand opened at Takanini, South Auckland, in 1961. The first supermarket had opened three years earlier – also a Foodtown, it was located on Great South Road in Ōtāhuhu.

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Carl Walrond, Food shops – Self-service grocers and supermarkets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25500/opening-day-foodtown-takanini (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.