The Warehouse Group reports flat sales and declining foot traffic amid rising fuel prices, while highlighting growth in online sales and a planned reopening of a flagship Noel Leeming store in Auckland's city centre.
How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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positive momentum in consumer spending
**Card spending data strongest for retail in more than 2 years** \\ \\ **15 June 2026**\\ \\ New Zealand retailers will be buoyed by the latest Stats NZ Electronic Card Transaction data, which shows the strongest year-on-year growth in actual core retail sales since January 2024.positive consumer confidence boost
**Strong retail sales in November on back of Singles Day, Black Friday and Cyber-Monday** \\ \\ **1 December 2020**\\ \\ The latest Retail NZ Sales Index, shows that spending through November remained strong, and that total spending since March is now ahead of last year.Spotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
