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Speaker 1: And if you're a nosey Parker like me, you would

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Speaker 1: have no doubt to noticed a bit of activity in

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Speaker 1: recent weeks around the old Salmon Tales building in central Rakaire.

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Speaker 1: It's been transformed into a four square supermarket and it

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Speaker 1: opens this morning. Owner operator Mike Thomas, Morning, good morning,

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Speaker 1: and congrats. What a dream result moving into a building

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Speaker 1: that's already shaped us the town icon. How ideal is that.

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Speaker 2: It's a truly iconic building and we think we've paid

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Speaker 2: homage to what it is. And I don't think the

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Speaker 2: inside of the salmon was ever supposed to look like this,

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Speaker 2: but that does not fantastic on the inside.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you that usually inside of Salmon's

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Speaker 1: are tasty, and you've got plenty of tasty treats. Give

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Speaker 1: us an idea of the sort of effort that's gone

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Speaker 1: in to transform the place. What's it taken to turn

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Speaker 1: it into a supermarket?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think about two weeks ago on the Monday morning,

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Speaker 2: the truck started rolling in and we've managed to turn

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Speaker 2: it around just over two weeks time. We've got about

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Speaker 2: sixteen hundred more products than the previous store, so we've

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Speaker 2: we've got a huge range. We've got to improved offer

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Speaker 2: and fresh butchery food to go the whole lot, so

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Speaker 2: to a full service supermarket.

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Speaker 1: To clarify, is Rakaia still going to be a one

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Speaker 1: supermarket town? Does this replace existing four square?

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Speaker 2: It's a replacement store for the for the previous one.

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Speaker 2: So that closed on Sunday night and then we've just

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Speaker 2: moved a bit of stock over yesterday and now we're

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Speaker 2: ready to go today nine point thirty we opened the doors.

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Speaker 1: All that's when all the formalities take place, not just

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Speaker 1: the store that's new and welcome to yourself and the family.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a bit about you guys.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we were We've previously owned a store in

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Speaker 2: Pleasant Point. We were there for eight years and the

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Speaker 2: opportunity came up to do this project and we just

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Speaker 2: thought that was a bit of us and we've thrown

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Speaker 2: everything we've we've got into it. So we just hope

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Speaker 2: that the community loves it as much as us.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they will. Credit to Glenn Paris. I think

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Speaker 1: he's been running the counter at the old place for

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Speaker 1: around twenty years. That's a heat of attemper.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a great job here and we're grateful

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Speaker 2: for his support through the whole process. It's been it's

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Speaker 2: been a really amicable sort of relationship that we've had

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Speaker 2: with him, and he's going to enjoy the next part

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Speaker 2: of his life. I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that you'll enjoy making the place at home.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any young kids? Do you mind me asking.

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Speaker 2: We've got two kids, ones at university, the other daughters

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Speaker 2: at university, and we've got a boy at high school

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Speaker 2: to have a couple of years to go. But they'll

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Speaker 2: be here today and they'll have a few surprises to

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Speaker 2: hand out during the day.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask as my final question, what

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Speaker 1: are you most looking forward to, or perhaps looking forward

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Speaker 1: to showing off?

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Speaker 2: I think just the initial reaction from people when they

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Speaker 2: walk through the door to see to see what we're

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Speaker 2: offering and what the new generation four squaers are going

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Speaker 2: to look like throughout the South Island, so there'll be

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Speaker 2: something quite different to what people may have seen. But

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's pretty fancy, to be completely.

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Speaker 1: Honest, trail blazing moment, a sement tills blazing moment. The

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Speaker 1: place is looking great, so there's a wonderful new car

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Speaker 1: park out back, and bring on, what's going to be

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Speaker 1: a big day and exciting times to come. Wonderful two

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Speaker 1: chat to you. Mike Thomas, new owner operator of the

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Speaker 1: four Square in Rikat