The Warehouse selling bike oil

[Robert Taylor]

The big four Jap bike makers outsource or import "labour" to cut costs and overheads, Triumph and Kawasaki do the same. Manufacturers of other goods in NZ have outsourced production to cut overheads you can´t blame or guilt trip joe public for not doing the same and cutting their own overheads to play fair and be nice to the local guy. You can´t stop progress - internet buying isn´t going to go away, the younger generation are growing up with it and will turn to local shops less and less. Businesses will adapt or change or go bankrupt. The only way they can compete is with superior service and local knowlage or to make it MORE convenient to buy locally, would anyone bother to buy online to save 10-15% probably not but when people see they can save 20-40% online it really is worth the hassel and risk.

Yes indeed the big four do outsource / subcontract. But in relative terms they have a modicum of quality control that their Asian counterparts on the mainland usually care little about.

[The Pink Panther]

Have you guys seen how many great Motor Bike dvd's are at the Warehouse for next to nothing
By NZ made get over it.
we export 99.9 % of anything produced in NZ.
Does China make a superbike if so it could be sold through the Warehouse.