Grocery stores update hours

Grocery stores across northern communities, from Mangawhai to Puhoi, have adapted their services to manage during the quarantine.

Some are restricting numbers in stores while others have created new delivery services. Most have changed their opening hours to allow for extra time to restock.

Here’s a list of what grocery stores in different communities are doing for the quarantine (as of March 30):

• The Snells Beach Food Market has closed its doors to customers, but is doing contact free payment for grocery orders outside the shop. Customers are asked to email orders to shop@thefoodmarket.nz and pick them up from outside the store. Some orders can be made at the door. Its current hours are 9am to 4pm.
• The Matakana Four Square is open 8am to 6pm. Due to high demand, the store is only doing deliveries to 70+ and other vulnerable people. Orders should be sent to claire.walker@4sq.co.nz. The store is allocating surrounding communities with a delivery day to maximise reach. It delivers to Whangaripo Valley on Tuesday, Leigh and Ti Point on Thursday, Point Wells and Omaha on Saturday, and Matakana on Sunday.
• The Point Wells General Store has closed its shop and is doing deliveries only. Call 09 422 7007.
• The Omaha Beach Superette is open 7am to 5pm, seven days. Only one customer is permitted in the store at a time.
• The Leigh General Store has reduced its opening hours (opening times are posted on the door)
• New World Warkworth has changed its hours temporarily to 9am to 9pm. They are asking shoppers to have one person at a trolley at a time, and respect the two-metre rule with other shoppers. Only 50 people are permitted in the store at one time.
• The Warkworth Countdown has temporarily changed its hours from 9am to 8pm and is asking shoppers to respect the two-metre rule.
• The Wellsford Superette is open as usual from 8am to 6pm.
• The Wellsford Four Square is open from 8am to 6pm, seven days a week.
• The Rodney Four Square is open 8am to 7.30pm, seven days a week.
• Jaques Four Square in Kaiwaka is open but is restricting numbers in the shop at any one time. Go to their facebook page for opening hours..
• The Molesworth Four Square in Mangawhai is open for its regular hours of 7.30am to 7.30pm. Customers are also able to place delivery orders from a form on the ‘Four Square Mangawhai Heads’ Facebook page.
• The Moir Street Four Square in Mangawhai is open daily from 8am to 6.15pm.
• The Maungaturoto Four Square is open 7.30am to 6.30pm weekdays, and 8am to 6.30pm on weekends. It is doing deliveries for the elderly and ill. They are asking for orders to be sent to maungy4sq@gmail.com and then for customers to ring the store on 09 431 8700.
• The Puhoi General Store is closed for grocery shopping but residents can still collect their mail.
• The Kaukapakapa General Store is open from 8am to 6pm, but only one person at a time is permitted in the store. Deliveries are $15 and can be made online by messaging the store’s Facebook page.