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Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - Lilith7 - 19-01-2024
Which means that 11 thousand people will be without a supermarket. This smacks of 'we can't make enough money here,so we're leaving & to hell with these people, they're too poor'
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/19/flaxmeres-only-supermarket-set-to-close-its-doors-next-month/
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/01/hastings-township-flaxmere-to-lose-its-only-supermarket.html
As a result, a petition has been started.
https://www.change.org/p/prevent-the-closure-of-our-local-grocery-store-in-flaxmere-hastings?recruiter=79770330&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=76fc2fec-0ec4-425a-b2b6-d05e454f44a4&share_bandit_exp=initial-37840776-en-AU&utm_content=mit-37840776-10%3Av1&fbclid=IwAR24aNAa-JI2JdOOqmlVOCY9LQ8VgxurlKXDK4qa-Z4neYr4akAFIPuYL-o
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - alpha111 - 19-01-2024
Add ASB closing five branches across the North Island.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - nzoomed - 19-01-2024
Only 21 million dollars to refurbish they were saying on the radio, a drop in the bucket of what they earn each year.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - Lilith7 - 20-01-2024
The new supermarket would have made all the difference to those who live there but it seems that profit is the goal.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/integral-part-of-our-daily-lives-township-with-11-000-people-to-lose-its-only-supermarket/ar-AA1ncpsv?ocid=nl_article_link
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - Mike Oxlong - 21-01-2024
Flaxmere is a suburb of Hastings. I'm sure everyone's suburb doesn't have a supermarket. Its the media looking for stories, thats the whole story.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - joe 90 - 23-01-2024
Can bet Foodstuffs will retain a lease onthe building to prevent Wooolworths opening up there . They did similar in Upper huutt buying up all commercial vacant properties to keep CD out . But They eventually bought a whole block of small shops & built their supermarket . Foxton has less people thanFlaxmere but it has a supermarket . They just dont want to rebuild instead force shoppers into the city & big box shopping .
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - JanW - 23-01-2024
(23-01-2024, 04:35 PM)joe 90 Wrote: Can bet Foodstuffs will retain a lease onthe building to prevent Wooolworths opening up there . They did similar in Upper huutt buying up all commercial vacant properties to keep CD out . But They eventually bought a whole block of small shops & built their supermarket . Foxton has less people thanFlaxmere but it has a supermarket . They just dont want to rebuild instead force shoppers into the city & big box shopping .Foodstuffs don’t own the building so the landlord is able to lease it to one of the rival companies Jacinda and the ComCom claimed were being stopped entering the market by the duopoly .Woolworths have expressed no interest in opening in Flaxmere - the nearest PaknSave is only 8km away - the people of Flaxmere chose not to support the New World so the owner operator could not keep trading with not enough customers -there is a very good Four Square in Flaxmere
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - dken31 - 23-01-2024
Supermarkets aren't charities and $21,000,000 is a lot of money even for a supermarket. Even if it was doing well, it would still take many years for for the owners to pay off that sort of investment, and the linked articles suggest it wasn't performing that well.
With a Pak'n'Save only 10 min down the road, I'm sure most people will cope with the closure just fine. Also, if they're mostly low income households, they should already he shopping at Pak'n'Save and not New World anyway.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - Lilith7 - 24-01-2024
(23-01-2024, 09:46 PM)dken31 Wrote: Supermarkets aren't charities and $21,000,000 is a lot of money even for a supermarket. Even if it was doing well, it would still take many years for for the owners to pay off that sort of investment, and the linked articles suggest it wasn't performing that well.
With a Pak'n'Save only 10 min down the road, I'm sure most people will cope with the closure just fine. Also, if they're mostly low income households, they should already he shopping at Pak'n'Save and not New World anyway.
There's zero chance anyone would mistake them for charities; nonetheless businesses needn't always be ruthless & uncaring. They forget that without customers, they'd have no business at all.
There may very well be people without transport who need to get groceries, & regardless of their income I think they're capable of deciding for themselves where to shop.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - zqwerty - 24-01-2024
Supermarkets are doing the relatively easy and uncomplicated job of supplying needed goods by warehousing and displaying them to the citizens of the country and as such are entitled to receive moderate wages for accomplishing this task.
However they are now only working to obtain super-profits and need to be regulated by a governing body with teeth because at the moment they are running out of control and ripping off the consumer at all turns.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - JanW - 24-01-2024
(24-01-2024, 03:58 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Supermarkets are doing the relatively easy and uncomplicated job of supplying needed goods by warehousing and displaying them to the citizens of the country and as such are entitled to receive moderate wages for accomplishing this task.Flaxmere 4 square has been a large thriving business in Flaxmere for many years which has always been well supported by the locals who aren’t shopping at the nearby PaknSave - plus there are 3 bottle stores
However they are now only working to obtain super-profits and need to be regulated by a governing body with teeth because at the moment they are running out of control and ripping off the consumer at all turns.
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - Lilith7 - 24-01-2024
(24-01-2024, 03:58 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Supermarkets are doing the relatively easy and uncomplicated job of supplying needed goods by warehousing and displaying them to the citizens of the country and as such are entitled to receive moderate wages for accomplishing this task.
However they are now only working to obtain super-profits and need to be regulated by a governing body with teeth because at the moment they are running out of control and ripping off the consumer at all turns.
That would make sense.
So not a chance in hell of it happening while this lot are in charge...
RE: Flaxmere's only supermarket to close - zqwerty - 24-01-2024
People who are doing the most mundane tasks see themselves as entitled to rip off anyone who comes into their sphere of influence, this is a part of my comment that there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.