Yoobee closing half its NZ stores

NewstalkZB reports:

A handful of Yoobee stores, which resell Apple products in New Zealand, have closed their doors.

The Auckland-based company, a division of Renaissance Corporation, has closed its branches in Albany, Britomart and Sylvia Park in Auckland, as well as Dunedin, in an effort to get its retail unit back in shape.

The remaining Yoobee stores in Auckland’s Newmarket, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch will provide ‘full service’ sales, in order to differentiate them from competitors.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

I blogged back in May how the Wellington Yoobee store managed to stop me buying an Apple MacBook Air despite the fact I walked into the store with a credit card planning to buy one.