Countdown is a New Zealand discount supermarket chain owned by Progressive Enterprises. A business chain, or just chain, is a network of physical business locations, which all provide similar services or products, and share a brand. ... Progressive Enterprises Limited is a New Zealand company, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Foodlands Associated Limited. ...
Countdown was founded in 1981, with its first store opening at Northlands, Christchurch and is headquartered in Auckland. Their supermarkets tend to be very large and usually have tiled floors. Christchurch is a city on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. ... Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area in New Zealand. ...
Some speak of a widespread sense of dread, a confluence of events and processes foretold in prophetic utterances in everything from Bible or the writings of Nostradamus, to alleged warnings from long-dead civilizations, or even scientists.
From television preachers to Internet prophets, to the tabloids at the supermarket check-out counter, murmurs about the end of the world are suddenly going mainstream.
Despite his unlimited power, tribulationist persecutions, and supermarket bar-codes, he is nevertheless prophesied to go down for the count and end up vanquished for eternity to a burning lake of fire.