» This article's about the New Zealand supermarket, not the Foodtown (Northeast supermarket cooperative or the Houston, Texas store. Foodtown's a New Zealand supermarket chain owned by Progressive Enterprises. The supermarkets usually tend to be integrated with a shopping mall, and not as stand-alone stores. History 1958 - 1961 Foodtown Supermarkets Limited On June 18, 1958 the first Foodtown supermarket of 1400sq metres was opened on a 1.1 hectare site at Otahuhu. Tom Ah Chee, Norman Kent an… (More on Foodtown)