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Speaker 1: It is official. Costco is bringing its second New Zealand store.

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Speaker 1: Site's going to be in the new Drurytown Center development,

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Speaker 1: which is about thirty k's south of Auckland. Sue Chetwyan

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Speaker 1: is the chair of the Grocery Action grouping with us Hey.

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Speaker 1: Sue higher, should we expect it to do the same

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Speaker 1: thing it's done in West Auckland and drive down prices

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Speaker 1: and the other supermarkets in the area.

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Speaker 2: Look, I imagine that that will happen, and that will be

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Speaker 2: great for shoppers who choose to shop in Drury in

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Speaker 2: South Auckland, But I don't think it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a game changer for supermarket shopping generally. I mean Costco

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Speaker 2: is a very sort of specific way of shopping. You

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Speaker 2: become a member. They don't have lots of supermarkets, but

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Speaker 2: they do offer really large discount so got on them.

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Speaker 2: I suppose one of the things that you could take

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Speaker 2: from this is that Costco's very large operator. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're there to make profits. They think that they can

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Speaker 2: be made in New Zealand. So it would be really

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Speaker 2: good if a third or fourth operator thought like that,

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Speaker 2: but was willing to have a few more super make

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Speaker 2: its so more people could benefit.

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Speaker 1: The difference between this Costco and the Costco that they've

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Speaker 1: got west of Auckland is that this one's going to

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Speaker 1: be able to sell booze because of course they've got

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Speaker 1: the weird thing happening in West Auckland. How much cheaper

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Speaker 1: is their booze offering? Do you know?

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't know, but I imagine you know, that's a

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Speaker 2: very important part of you know, the duopoly sales, you know,

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Speaker 2: food stuffs and Woolworths, So it will be significant I

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Speaker 2: imagine for Costco.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that other supermarkets are pleased about this

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Speaker 1: or not terribly?

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Speaker 2: Look, I imagine you know that it's the sort of competition

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Speaker 2: that they might want to have because it is only

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Speaker 2: one another one new store, So it's not you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not a competitor coming in and saying they're going

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Speaker 2: to open in every town and city in the country.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're grade operators, but they're not

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Speaker 2: the one that's going to shift the dial.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, Sue, it's very good to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, appreciate your time. That Sue Chitwin

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