FreshChoice

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FreshChoice
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Retail
Founded1995;30 years ago (1995)
Headquarters Christchurch, New Zealand
Number of locations
74 stores (August 2025)
Parent Woolworths Limited
Website www.freshchoice.co.nz

FreshChoice is a franchise of locally owned and operated supermarkets across New Zealand. [1]

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History

The franchise was established in 1995. [2]

By 2008, it had 15 stores but was yet to expand into Auckland. [3]

In 2023, Woolworths Group New Zealand began the process of rebranding all of its SuperValue stores as FreshChoice, this was part of a plan to expand the FreshChoice chain to 200 stores by 2034. [4]

Operations

There are 74 FreshChoice stores across New Zealand, including 11 in Auckland. [5] The stores are operated under franchise agreements with Wholesale Distributors Ltd (WDL), a division of Woolworths New Zealand, one of New Zealand's largest retail and distribution companies. [2]

References

  1. "FreshChoice – local supermarkets". freshchoice.co.nz. FreshChoice. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Supermarket franchise opportunities". FreshChoice. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. "Store locations". progressive.co.nz. Progressive Enterprises. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008.
  4. "Enhancing Customers' Shopping Experience". Supermarket News. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  5. "Supermarkets". FreshChoice. Retrieved 23 July 2025.