Supermarket and grocery stores
Supermarket and grocery stores.
Who it buys from
Share of everything it buys, year to March 2020. Click an industry to see its profile.
Who buys from it
Share of its output. Blue: households, government, investment and exports; grey: other industries.
Where each $100 goes
Including what its suppliers, and their suppliers, pay out (cumulated primary input coefficients), year to March 2020.
What it sells overseas
$0.4 billion of its output, 7.5%, was sold to overseas buyers in the year to March 2020.
Services exports, from the input-output tables. Stats NZ doesn't publish current services exports by industry; see trade for services exports by type.
Its prices
Annual % change, Stats NZ producers price index for supermarket, grocery stores and specialised food retailing.
Its emissions
Kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent a year (Stats NZ environmental accounts).
Government support
Plus $11m of support for retail trade as a whole since 2009 ($1m in 2024/25), not attributed to particular industries.
Spending in Treasury's Estimates targeted at this industry, by fiscal year ending June, classified by the nz-industrial-policy project. Totals aren't adjusted for inflation, and the latest years are estimates, not final figures. Broad measures such as the R&D Tax Incentive aren't included.
Over time
Stats NZ publishes these for broader groups than the input-output tables, so each chart names the group it covers.
Output of retail trade
$ billion a year, inflation-adjusted (chain volume, seasonally adjusted)
Filled jobs in retail trade
Average over each year
Average hourly earnings
About these numbers
Industry here is one of the 109 industries in Stats NZ's input-output tables (working industries GH121). Buying and selling, and where each $100 goes, come from those tables for the year to March 2020, the latest published.
Exports are this year's goods exports, shared out to industries: each HS code is matched to input-output products (through the UN's product classification), then split between the industries that make each product, in proportion to how much they make. Services exports are shown from the input-output tables.
Output, jobs and pay are for the broader group shown on each chart. Prices use the most detailed producers price index that covers the industry. Emissions are Stats NZ's annual figures for the industry's working industries; per $100 of output uses the 2020 emissions and the input-output tables' output.
Sources: Stats NZ input-output tables, overseas merchandise trade, GDP, business price indexes, greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household), Quarterly Employment Survey; Treasury Estimates of Appropriations via the nz-industrial-policy project; UN Statistics Division correspondence tables.