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Ann-Marie Johnson: Retail NZ Communications Manager on the drop in the number of dairies · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Retail advocates say the number of dairies in the country
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  Speaker 1: is on the downward trend as supermarkets continue to monopolize
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  Speaker 1: and retail crime continues. The Ministry for Business, Innovation and
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  Speaker 1: Employment says there are currently just seventeen hundred registered companies
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  Speaker 1: classified as a dairy or a supret and that compares
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  Speaker 1: to back in twenty eighteen, Retail New Zealand recording about
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  Speaker 1: four thousand deiries and convenience stores around the country. Anry
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is with retailing issues with US Live this morning. Amory,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, where an it great to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show. First of all, are these numbers actually reliable?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a piece of research that Retailing Z is
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  Speaker 2: about to carry out and update our twenty eighteen figures.
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  Speaker 2: But certainly on the face of it, it seems pretty likely.
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  Speaker 2: We know that retail has been doing it tough, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what sector you're in, and so certainly, just looking
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  Speaker 2: around the streets, I reckon that, Yeah, we certainly know
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  Speaker 2: that a number of dairies have closed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other thing I was thinking about supermarkets
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  Speaker 1: are cheaper, generally speaking, are cheaper than dairies, and in
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  Speaker 1: the cost of living crisis, people are going for the
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  Speaker 1: cheaper option.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, and they always have been. You know, dairies
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  Speaker 2: have been great for just being able to pop in
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  Speaker 2: and buy those extra a few bits and pieces, but
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  Speaker 2: you do pay for the convenience.
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  Speaker 1: Does it matter if daiies close? I mean, obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: not great for someone like me who loves going there
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  Speaker 1: for that reason. I hate going to the car park
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  Speaker 1: and the supermarket and driving round and around and going
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  Speaker 1: over the juddabars. But apart from that, does it actually
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  Speaker 1: matter whether the supermarket retailers are doing well and the
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  Speaker 1: dairies aren't.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think it does. I think it does because
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  Speaker 2: you know, people do love their dairies. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you say, people shopping habits have changed, and if
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  Speaker 2: we want to keep our daares open then we need
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  Speaker 2: to support them. But certainly dairies are a real focal
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  Speaker 2: point in the community. They're very handy to have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely are a convenience thing, I think, Annory,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for that. Annry Johnson, manager of Advocacy,
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  Speaker 1: Advice and Comms at retail end Z. Great to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the program. Sixteen minutes after five, does anyone
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  Speaker 1: else here if they lose their dairy, are you Are
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  Speaker 1: you a staunch supporter of your dairy. Do you make
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  Speaker 1: a point of going in. I have quite a good
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  Speaker 1: relationship with my local dairy, so you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: say we're friendly, and I enjoy going in to have
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  Speaker 1: a chat, and I enjoy going in and stopping to
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  Speaker 1: pick up some milk or whatever it is, and it
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  Speaker 1: is way easier. The other thing that I haven't mentioned
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  Speaker 1: is the bike lanes cycle lanes, which have in some
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  Speaker 1: places at least kind of put the kibosh on people
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  Speaker 1: stopping and get running into the dairy for five minutes
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  Speaker 1: really quickly.