There is a fun sign at the Wairau Road Pak’nSave explaining the store’s story.

The story began in 1987 when Foodstuffs acquired an interest in the land. In 1990, they applied for a resource consent. Nineteen years later, after two failed resource consent applications, a zoning change, a new resource consent, and about four years of litigation, they finally opened.

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