Aramoho Mini Market's super changes

A Four Square store with the product range of a supermarket is planned at Wanganui's Aramoho Shopping Centre.
John and Jo Sharp have bought the Aramoho Mini Market and are in the process of converting it into Aramoho Four Square.
The enlarged store will have a bakery and sell meat, groceries, fruit and vegetables, wine and beer.
The new owners are asking Aramoho shoppers to be patient.
The renovations and additions, which include converting a storeroom into a kitchen, will cost at least $200,000 and take about two months.
The store will be closed tomorrow while the floors are sealed. The Parag family still own the building and will lease two shops in it to the Sharps.
The couple intend to remove a wall and join the shops together.
Staff are staying on under the new owners.
The Parags, who are beloved in the suburb, can also have jobs if they wish.
Mr Sharp said Betty was keen to keep working.
Her husband Jack is not so well but may take charge of the fruit and vegetables, his forte.
The new store will need more staff still, about 10 to start with.
The Sharps come with a lot of skills.
Mr Sharp qualified as a butcher in Hawke's Bay.
He learned how to bake during the past two and a half years, while the couple ran a Four Square store in Opunake.
The bakery at the back of the Aramoho shop would make fresh bread, buns and French sticks, he said.
He left Hawke's Bay for Wellington and a stint at a freezing works, then worked at the Foodtown supermarket in Palmerston North and was transferred from there to the Foodtown in Wanganui.
That is where he met Jo Hughes, a Wanganui woman working in the supermarket office. She will be handling the accounts and wages for the new store.
While in Wanganui, Mr Sharp also worked as a supervisor for Mars Petcare, and managed the butchery, groceries and fresh food departments at Wanganui New World.
The couple took note of the opposition to a new liquor outlet that is now open in Wanganui East. They worried that getting permission to sell alcohol would be difficult, but no one objected and their application went through smoothly.
The Sharps kept their Parkdale house while they worked in Opunake. It is handily close to the Aramoho Shopping Centre and they have now returned to it.
They have two daughters, aged 10 and 13, and say they are back in Wanganui for good.