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Best of 2025: Heather du Plessis-Allan - Does buying NZ-made ever work? · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: First of all, can I start by offering an apology
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  Speaker 2: to TV and Z. I gave them a bit of
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  Speaker 2: grief last night for starting the news bulletin with the peaches.
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  Speaker 2: But it turns out I was wrong and they were right.
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  Speaker 2: This has sparked a flurry of debate over whether we
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  Speaker 2: prefer our Watti's peaches from Hawk's Bay, or whether we
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  Speaker 2: don't really care if it comes from China or not.
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  Speaker 2: It's also prompted a statement from what he's asking us
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  Speaker 2: to support local growers. In other words, can we please
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  Speaker 2: buy New Zealand maid? Now that is a very nice sentiment,
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  Speaker 2: but let's be honest. That's all it is. It is
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  Speaker 2: a sentiment. It's not going to work. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is This is not me being cavalier about how hard
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  Speaker 2: this must be for the Hawks Bay peach growers who
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  Speaker 2: are losing their whatties contracts for them. This must be
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  Speaker 2: absolutely devastating, and I feel terrible for them. But this
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  Speaker 2: is me being realistic about the prospect of any buy
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Made campaign working. What is new Zealand peaches,
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  Speaker 2: according to pack and Saf's online store, are three dollars
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  Speaker 2: ninety you can Pam's Cheap peaches and ninety nine cents
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  Speaker 2: a can. That's a no brainer. You're going to buy
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  Speaker 2: the ninety nine cents can. Who is buying the three
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  Speaker 2: dollars ninety can? Who is buying just a gray linn?
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  Speaker 2: Who is it? That makes no sense whatsoever? I mean, Look,
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  Speaker 2: maybe if I thought about it a little bit, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't, But if I did, maybe I would pay
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  Speaker 2: ten twenty cents forty cents in a push more for
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  Speaker 2: a New Zealand Maid product. But I would not pay
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  Speaker 2: four times as much. It's far too expensive. And I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't even do it in the first place, because buying
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Maid never works, does it never has. If
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  Speaker 2: it did, we would still be wearing butter bullets and
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  Speaker 2: buying Juliet Hogan and eating sanitaryum peanut butter. We wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be reading about the closure of manufacturing businesses every other month,
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  Speaker 2: which today, by the way, is the car to hold
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Mill and talk at all. I do the shopping
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  Speaker 2: at our house. Ninety percent of the time. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know the provenance of the food I'm buying. I
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  Speaker 2: do not know where the canned food comes from. I
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  Speaker 2: absolutely do not know where the dried good dried goods
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  Speaker 2: come from, and often I'm not even really looking where
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  Speaker 2: the fresh fruit comes from. Yep, I know where the
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  Speaker 2: meat comes from. But that's basically a given, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's simple economics. It always will be. And even if
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  Speaker 2: Watti's has this tiny little hope that there might be
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  Speaker 2: a last minute public rally for the New Zealand grown peaches,
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  Speaker 2: I think they already know the outcome, which is why
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  Speaker 2: they've already cut the contracts.
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