{"id":595996,"date":"2026-09-10T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595996\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:24:18","slug":"what-can-new-zealands-new-largest-kmart-offer-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595996\/","title":{"rendered":"What can New Zealand&#8217;s new largest Kmart offer consumers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s largest Kmart has opened today, at Auckland&#8217;s Westgate Town Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The new store will be the retailer&#8217;s first to debut the new Plan C+ format with checkouts at the front, and New Zealand&#8217;s third 24-hour store after Sylvia Park and Manukau.<\/p>\n<p>First Retail Group managing director Chris Wilkinson says this new store is unlikely to draw people away from Sylvia Park, as both outlets have their own selling points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is, Sylvia Park has its own draw, it&#8217;s got a lot of very unique retailers there &#8211; and at the end of the day, the Kmart product is the Kmart product.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s largest Kmart has opened today, at Auckland&#8217;s Westgate Town Centre. The new store will be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,29540,111,43,139,69,644,201736],"class_list":["post-595996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-business","tag-kmart","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retail","tag-westgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595996","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=595996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}