Better late than never for Wellington’s second Kmart store

• Kmart is pushing ahead with its plans to open a second store in the Wellington region, with construction on its long-awaited Petone store to start begin this month.

But the store won’t be open in time for Christmas, or even by the end of summer – construction of the 5200 square metre is scheduled to wrap up at the end of the second quarter in 2017.

Kmart New Zealand operations manager Sue Smith said Kmart was excited to commence development of the store.

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