{"id":483169,"date":"2026-06-18T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:18:09","slug":"aucklands-flying-out-record-store-to-close-citing-years-of-tough-trading-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483169\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland\u2019s Flying Out Record Store to close, citing years of tough trading conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYour love and loyalty has been truly appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Davis said the store was working through its next steps, and planned to share more in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">He asked customers to continue actively supporting small, locally owned businesses like theirs, noting the effect has a real impact on those across the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey are a labour of love from someone in your community and supporting them supports your neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Flying Out\u2019s website has been taken offline, with a tag informing shoppers its online store was \u201ctemporarily unavailable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Ben Howe and Matthew Davis (right) outside Flying Out's Pitt St premises ahead of its 2015 opening. Photo \/ Ben Howe\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Ben Howe and Matthew Davis (right) outside Flying Out&#8217;s Pitt St premises ahead of its 2015 opening. Photo \/ Ben Howe<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Decades-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/marbecks-to-close-90-year-old-auckland-queens-arcade-record-store\/OUK7AJBGONAENO2B2NIDJRLOAQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/marbecks-to-close-90-year-old-auckland-queens-arcade-record-store\/OUK7AJBGONAENO2B2NIDJRLOAQ\/\">record store Marbecks shut its physical store on Queen St<\/a> in September last year, pivoting to an online-only offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The storefront\u2019s closure on October 31 marked the end of a 90-year chapter for the family-owned business, having operated out of Queens Arcade since 1934.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Founding<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/the-beat-goes-on-at-marbecks\/V5MD4YFZOK3JHXC5GQRPQCYQAM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/the-beat-goes-on-at-marbecks\/V5MD4YFZOK3JHXC5GQRPQCYQAM\/\" target=\"_blank\"> family member Roger Marbeck<\/a> said the move would allow Marbecks\u2019 legacy to continue while enabling them to evolve with the changing retail environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile closing our physical doors is bittersweet, our mission remains the same \u2013 to share music that inspires and brings people together,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe online store lets us carry that legacy forward in a way that reaches more people than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYour love and loyalty has been truly appreciated.\u201d Davis said the store was working through its next steps,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,3952,138,45134,651,6789,8278,242685,5426,3936,6097,88857,17628,3935,111,139,69,1118,3111,29392,1974,2687,2735,673,61,13983,780,132458,178367,102,1530],"class_list":["post-483169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-business","tag-citing","tag-close","tag-closing","tag-conditions","tag-confluence","tag-created","tag-director","tag-down","tag-factors","tag-flying","tag-managing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-perfect","tag-record","tag-saying","tag-store","tag-storm","tag-to","tag-tough","tag-trading","tag-unpleasant","tag-wellestablished","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}