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Speaker 1: The French are flying into Upland International Airport. This French

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Speaker 1: global output, the travel retailer Lagardere, has won an eight

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Speaker 1: year contract to run the airport's duty free shops for

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Speaker 1: the next eight years. Obviously, apparently they're going to be

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Speaker 1: stocking top global brands, which I thought most of our

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Speaker 1: airport and our international airport duty free stores already were.

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Speaker 1: But how much better off are you actually shopping duty free?

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Speaker 1: Chris Wilkinson's the first retail group managing directories with us. Now, Hi, Chris, hey, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: how are you a good thank you? Good to have

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Speaker 1: you on the show. This is obviously a good thing.

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Speaker 1: This is good news that the French coming here to

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Speaker 1: do this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we've already got French operator in the end now,

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Speaker 2: so this operator is I guess just a massive scale

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Speaker 2: around the world. So it's a very promising sign.

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Speaker 1: Is it true? I mean, yes, you get your GST off,

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Speaker 1: you get your duty off, but at the prices? Actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, do you is it one for one? Do

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Speaker 1: you get back every dollar that you save on GST

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Speaker 1: and on duty?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. I just took a couple of products

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Speaker 2: before and tested them out. So Bombay Gin for instance,

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Speaker 2: fifty six dollars at the airport it is sixty nine

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Speaker 2: to ninety nine, but you can get two for seventy

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Speaker 2: nine or three four hundred and ten. You know, that's

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Speaker 2: just one example. We know that some products are more expensive.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you see Witkers chocolate, well, what were

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Speaker 2: you're expecting? It's going to be expensive there anyway. But

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Speaker 2: the key thing about gfree is it gives you a

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Speaker 2: lot of selection, and particularly in cosmetics and perfumery, you

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Speaker 2: won't find that level of selection in general retail.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. But is it as

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Speaker 1: cheap as it should be? I guess is the question?

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Speaker 1: And there's anyone watching, I mean, what laws do you

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Speaker 1: have to follow on and buy buy if you're in

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Speaker 1: the airport?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, that'd be a question for Auckland Airport. But

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Speaker 2: what you will find, also Ryan, is that the product

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Speaker 2: sizes are often different than you buy normal retail, so

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Speaker 2: it's sometimes quite hard to compare at like for like.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Chris, thank you very much for that. Chris wilkinsentious

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Speaker 1: retail group with.

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