Leaders of the Pak
Glenn and Tracey Anderson have entered their fifth supermarket as its owners. Photo: Gordon Preece.
Glenn and Tracey Anderson have grabbed a new supermarket to add to their ownership list.
The husband and wife team, who most recently owned New World Nelson City since 2021, have taken ownership of their largest Foodstuffs South Island store to date from the Howard whānau, who owned Pak’nSave Richmond for two decades.
Glenn and Tracey have also owned New World Stoke between 2011 and 2019, New World Rolleston from 2019 to 2021 and New World Waimate from 2009 to 2011, and the pair are “ecstatic” to connect with Pak’nSave Richmond’s 300 staff and provide high grade store standards and low prices.
“We’ve had quite an affiliation with Richmond, we live in Richmond, our kids both went to Waimea College, we’ve been involved in the local community in different sports so it made sense for us to look at purchasing [the supermarket],” Glenn says.
“We love Foodstuffs, you get the opportunity to be your own owner of an operation which is exciting, but you’re also a part of the cooperative, so you develop a lot of friendships, and being in a community type of organisation as well is great.
“Our biggest focus is to work on store standards and to remain competitive more than anything with pricing and the likes, a lot of the suppliers are putting through fairly significant price increases, so trying to keep our low costs operating.”
The Andersons have also led several community initiatives, including funding a new defibrillator and trauma equipment for the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter and sponsoring local schools and community groups.
Tracey says a major refurbishment of their fifth supermarket was also on their list, and that Pak’nSave Richmond would be her and Glenn’s final grocer they own.
“Five is a good number to finish on, and we’ll be here until we don’t enjoy it anymore and at the moment we really do, we love Richmond and Nelson,” she says.
“We’re excited to be here and we’re looking forward to doing the best we can for the community.”