I noticed this interesting item in Yoobee's press release when they announced they were closing a bunch of their stores,
After discussions with Apple Inc. the last party to examine Retail pulled out on 28 June. Consequently the board and management have moved to right size the Retail division. Today, four of its nine retail stores were closed.
So Apple are actively looking at setting up a retail presence in NZ, but decided against buying up yoobee, It makes me think Auckland will probably get a flagship Apple store somewhere downtown in the next 5 years or so,