11 Jul 2023

Business: Online grocer Supie's plans for physical store, BNZ dumps text links

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 11 July 2023
Supie, unmanned grocery store, text scam

Photo: Supie, BNZ, Wikicommons

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson joins Kathryn to talk about expansion plans for Supie, the online-only supermarket that was founded two years ago and is seen as a third challenger to the duopoly of Foodstuffs and Countdown. It's raised nearly $4m and is now planning physical stores - but the difference will be that they're smaller and possibly unstaffed, something that's becoming common in Asia. And BNZ says it'll stop using links in text messages sent to customers after a spate of text scams targeting its customers. Rebecca Stevenson is a senior writer at interest.co.nz