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Speaker 1: Retail advocates say the number of dairies in the country

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Speaker 1: is on the downward trend as supermarkets continue to monopolize

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Speaker 1: and retail crime continues. The Ministry for Business, Innovation and

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Speaker 1: Employment says there are currently just seventeen hundred registered companies

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Speaker 1: classified as a dairy or a supret and that compares

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Speaker 1: to back in twenty eighteen, Retail New Zealand recording about

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Speaker 1: four thousand deiries and convenience stores around the country. Amory

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Speaker 1: Johnson is with retailing issues with US Live this morning. Amory,

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Speaker 1: good morning, We're in it. Great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show. First of all, are these numbers actually reliable?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the piece of research that Retailing Z is

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Speaker 2: about to carry out and update our twenty eighteen figures.

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Speaker 2: But certainly on the face of it, it seems pretty likely.

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Speaker 2: We know that retail has been doing it tough, no

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Speaker 2: matter what sector you're in, and so certainly, just looking

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Speaker 2: around the streets, I reckon that, Yeah, we certainly know

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Speaker 2: that a number of dairies have closed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other thing I was thinking about, supermarkets

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Speaker 1: are cheaper, generally speaking, are cheaper than dairies, and in

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Speaker 1: the cost of living crisis, people are going for the

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Speaker 1: cheaper option.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and they always have been. You know, fairies

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Speaker 2: have been great for just being able to pop in

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Speaker 2: and buy those extra a few bits and pieces, but

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Speaker 2: you do pay for the convenience.

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Speaker 1: Does it matter if daiies close? I mean, obviously it's

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Speaker 1: not great for someone like me who loves going there

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Speaker 1: for that reason. I hate going to the car park

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Speaker 1: and the supermarket and driving round and around and going

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Speaker 1: over the juddabars. But apart from that, does it actually

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Speaker 1: matter whether the supermarket retailers are doing well and the

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Speaker 1: dairies aren't.

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Speaker 2: Well. I think it does. I think it does because

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Speaker 2: you know, people do love their dairies. But you know,

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Speaker 2: like you say, people shopping habits have changed, and if

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Speaker 2: we want to keep our dairy open then we need

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Speaker 2: to support them. But certainly dairies are a real focal

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Speaker 2: point in the community. They're very handy to have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely are a convenience thing, I think, Annory,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for that. Anry Johnson, manager of Advocacy,

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Speaker 1: Advice and Comms at retail end Z. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you on the program. Sixteen minutes after five, does anyone

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Speaker 1: else here if they lose their dairy. Are you Are

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Speaker 1: you a staunch supporter of your dairy. Do you make

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Speaker 1: a point of going in. I have quite a good

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Speaker 1: relationship with my local dairy, so you know, I would

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Speaker 1: say we're friendly, and I enjoy going in to have

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Speaker 1: a chat, and I enjoy going in and stopping to

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Speaker 1: pick up some milk or whatever it is, and it

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Speaker 1: is way easier. The other thing that I haven't mentioned

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Speaker 1: is the bike lanes. Cycle lanes which have in some

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Speaker 1: places at least kind of put the kibosh on people

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Speaker 1: stopping and running into the dairy for five minutes really quickly.

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