Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Foodstuffs South Island earthquake update 12:01pm
Updated statement follows:
Foodstuffs South Island will be posting regular updates
regarding the status of its Christchurch supermarkets on the
Foodstuffs South Island website www.foodstuffs-si.co.nz.
We are committed to ensuring continuous supply of essential food
and water to Canterbury residents. At this stage a number of
Christchurch Foodstuffs supermarkets are currently open with more
expected to reopen later today. We are working hard to open further
stores as a matter of urgency.
Our distribution centres suffered only minor damage and we
intend to resume the distribution of food to our retail stores
today.
We are relieved that there have been no major injuries or deaths
reported in any of our stores. There have been three minor injuries
reported.