14 Oct 2025

South Island's biggest supermarket opens its doors

From Checkpoint, 4:55 pm on 14 October 2025

There were eager shoppers as far as the eye could see at the opening of the South Island's biggest supermarket on the outskirts of Christchurch today. The $40 million development in Rolleston will serve the more than 30,000 people who live in what was once a small rural township. But as Keiller MacDuff reports, not everyone's excited about the mega store.