Amazon setting up in Australia has set retailers off whining again about the unfair advantages.
Well folks lower your unfair rip-off prices and we will shop here.
I would rather support a NZ shop than buy from overseas. However, when I can buy better shoes from a small retailer in the United States for NZ$70 including freight there is no way I will buy a similar shoe here for $275 to $300.
Rip-off pricing in NZ will - in the end - drive every shopper to the internet. The only purpose a shop will have in the end is a place to view a product then buy it online.
Further I bought a Bose stereo system retail in the US for $1200. The same system here at the time was more than $4000. Come NZ retailers get your act together sell for less and sell more. Turnover is the key to success not what the traffic will bear.
Retailers have to make a profit to survive but let's see it at fair level. I know all retailers are not the same, but too many are.
A Bourne, Bethlehem.
Posted: 10:28am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
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Posted on 04-04-2017 21:42 | By groutby
I do tend to agree with the writer, I also generally go directly "online" for many smaller and more varied (in particular technology which I can't help thinking we are often way behind in importing , let alone the price here) items, though I would NEVER visit a local store and have the audacity to order from an overseas supplier, I think that practise is abhorrent. I do wonder if the retailers are caught up sometimes tho in regard to the price they buy for, and that of the sale price...our market is so very small that to "keep the doors open" maybe, just maybe it is necessary to "up the price" and rely on a limited market. There certainly are the retailers which do take serious advantage though which does harm to the retail industry I would think.
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