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Speaker 1: Zero, Speaking of the economy, some interesting data on our

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Speaker 1: spending habit Zero tells us if we move ten percent

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Speaker 1: of our spending from big to small retailers, that would

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Speaker 1: be eleven billion dollars into the seme economy. This economy,

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Speaker 1: there's one hundred and ten billion out there. This is

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Speaker 1: aside from you know, power and rates and all that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Anyway, Bridget Snelling is Zero's country manager

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Speaker 1: and is will us Bridget.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: This has sort of got a key we made twist

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Speaker 1: to it, hasn't it. It's kind of like go out

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Speaker 1: and buy kiwi. You're saying, go out and spend small.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. As we're heading into this really

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Speaker 2: busy spending period November December and they lead up to Christmas.

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Speaker 2: What we're saying is if Kiwis can be conscious consumers

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Speaker 2: and think about where they're putting their dollar and support

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Speaker 2: local businesses, businesses where we know the money is going

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Speaker 2: to go back into the economy, then that could have

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Speaker 2: a significant impact on our overall economy. And you know

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Speaker 2: we need that right now. We need to try and

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Speaker 2: do as much as we can to lift the economy

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Speaker 2: back to where it needs to be.

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Speaker 1: And I know that you guys are with sm or

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Speaker 1: small companies, and I get it, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: I don't spend a dollar with somebody, I've spent it

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Speaker 1: with somebody else. What about the person who loses out?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the key message here, Mike is that

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Speaker 2: at this time of year, when people are looking to

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Speaker 2: buy gifts, there are a lot of overseas websites where

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Speaker 2: you can buy gifts very very cheaply. So what we're

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Speaker 2: saying is, well, instead of that, why don't you think

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Speaker 2: about supporting a local business, because then we know that

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Speaker 2: the money is coming back into our economy and we

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Speaker 2: do spend a reasonable amount generally at this time of year,

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Speaker 2: with Black Friday coming up and obviously the lead up

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Speaker 2: to Christmas, and so it's really just a call to

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Speaker 2: be conscious consumers and think about supporting businesses in your

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Speaker 2: own community.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. Given that we are a nation of

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Speaker 1: small businesses, the chance of us spending with a small

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Speaker 1: business actually quite high by de fault, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it depends where you live, I think

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Speaker 2: as well, and what your spending habits are. There will

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Speaker 2: definitely be some consumers who like already support local markets

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Speaker 2: and do their shopping that way. But there are a

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Speaker 2: significant number of people who will be looking really just

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Speaker 2: at price, and we'll be thinking about the cheapest place

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Speaker 2: to buy, and unfortunately that does seem to be some

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Speaker 2: of those big overseas sites.

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Speaker 1: All right, Bridge, it nice to talk to your Bridget's knowing.

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Speaker 1: Who is the us the boss basically at zero. For

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