Ongoing concerns about the performance and outlook of New Zealand's retail sector, encompassing weak consumer spending, soft sales data, economic pressures such as interest rates, and challenges like shoplifting.
How the framings classify across 9 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
dismay over policy instability
Businesses dismayed as Govt scraps ‘bumper sticker’ energy strategya cautious outlook due to political volatility
****Turbulence in retail continues**** \\ \\ **15 September 2026**\\ \\ Kiwi households are remaining cautious as fuel costs continue to bite, with the latest Electronic Card Transaction data from Stats NZ showing spending was flat (0.0%) compared to August last year.Lobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
a cautious outlook due to political volatility
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.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
And I guess when we think about it, you know the words that they've used in the bill are they actually call out rough sleeping and begging. Now what we …
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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