Talk:Farmers Trading Company

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Notability? Well they are only the biggest department store chain in New Zealand (not including The Warehouse- that's a bit different). The majority of New Zealanders shop there on a regular basis, they're heard of overseas occasionally and they're not notable? For goodness sakes. bad boy naughty u need a spankingÂ

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Assessment
Would be C-class if it had more neutral references. dramatic (talk) 18:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Other stores named Farmers
In Christchurch, Farmers bought out Haywrights (originally Hays), one of the city's 4 big department stores (in the 1980s I think). However, at that time (and for several years afterwards) there was another Dept store called Farmers Trading Co. Was this independent? dramatic (talk) 18:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Was Laidlaw the founder of Farmers?
Both New Zealand Herald 18 December 1918 and New Zealand Herald 17 December 1920 say the coop bought Laidlaw Leeds, so wouldn't it be more correct to say that it was formed by Farmers Union members in 1910? For example the Clevedon branch approved formation of a farmers union indenting and trading association at its 1910 meeting. Johnragla (talk) 19:33, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

I'll now make the change, as no one has commented. Johnragla (talk) 20:50, 4 January 2019 (UTC)