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Retail Staff Safety

32 items · 24 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

A Christchurch hobby store customer allegedly became verbally and physically aggressive over a $10 price difference for a Pokémon card, leading to police involvement and a public statement from the store about staff safety and intimidation.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 9 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

78%
22%
Supportive 7 Critical 2

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 13 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 13 articles
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Heard on radio

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.

  • Uh, Heather, go the sky from Avondale. My company's next door on New Lynn. Well, there you go. That's enough to cheer somebody on, isn't it? Um, now, spare... Spare a thought for Trump staff because apparently they're struggling to keep up with his truth socialing after dark. So it's okay. I mean, you know what he's like on the old social media and it's okay during the day because during the day Susie Wiles, who's his chief of staff and basically like mother hen in the White House, can keep an eye on what he's up to because she's got a monitor in her office that just is dedicated 24-7 or at least while she's in the office, just dedicated to giving her a live feed. of what he's doing on Truth Social with his posts and then if she sees something bad pop up she can hurry over into his office and sort of engineer a distraction apparently to divert him from going on a spree if it's necessary and this is the level of of intervention they're having to run but after dinner is when it becomes a problematic it becomes problematic because obviously everybody needs a break so Susie's off the clock after dinner danger zone in particular is after he's had his dinner Now, dinner with Melania before she retires into her separate sleeping quarters after dinner from that point through to 1am. That's the danger zone when he's still awake. And then the clock starts ticking again at 5am when he wakes up. Sunday was a particularly restless night, apparently. He posted half a dozen times between about half past two, let's be precise, between 2.35 and 2.38. six times between 2.35 and 2.38 in the morning and then he started up again at 4.10 on Monday morning. The worst night though, I mean you'd think that we'd look at that and go Lord it's like having, it's like breastfeeding a newborn, isn't it? No but that for them was actually not that bad on the scale of how bad things can be. The worst night was on December 1 which was a Monday and they will not forget this night because that night between nine in the evening. And midnight. He posted 158 times, which works out at a rate of nearly one post per minute for three hours straight. And what he was doing was just retweeting. He was just looking up crap and retweeting it and replying and going like for three hours. Can you imagine? three hours of that anyway we've also yeah
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Sample framings

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How the public reacted

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