Editing Convenience store (section)

=== New Zealand ===
{{see also|Dairy (store)}}
In [[New Zealand]], convenience shops are commonly referred to as dairies and superettes. Dairies in New Zealand are generally independently owned and operated. The use of the term ''dairy'' to describe convenience shops was common in New Zealand by the late 1930s.<ref>{{cite book
|title=The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases
|last=Cryer
|first=Max
|author-link=Max Cryer
|page=51
|isbn=978-0908988747
|publisher= Exisle Publishing
|location=[[Auckland]]
|year=2010
}}</ref> Dairies carved out a niche in food retail by keeping longer trading hours than groceries and supermarkets – dairies were exempt from labour laws restricting trading hours and Saturday trading. With the [[Sunday shopping#New Zealand|deregulation of trading hours]] and in the wake of legislation in 1989 prohibiting sales of alcohol by dairies, the distinction between dairies, superettes and groceries has blurred.<ref name="NZLC">{{cite book
 |title        = Alcohol In Our Lives: Curbing the Harm
 |date         = April 2010
 |isbn         = 978-1-877316-91-3
 |publisher    = [[New Zealand Law Commission]]
 |chapter      = 8 New criteria for selling takeaway alcohol
 |page         = 155
 |chapter-url          = http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/2010/04/Publication_154_464_Part_18_Chapter%208%20-%20New%20criteria%20for%20selling%20takeaway%20alcohol.pdf
 |access-date   = 8 January 2012
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130209170959/http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/2010/04/Publication_154_464_Part_18_Chapter%208%20-%20New%20criteria%20for%20selling%20takeaway%20alcohol.pdf
 |archive-date = 9 February 2013
|url-status     = dead
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>