Getting the juice (not Simpson)

It’s so hard finding New Zealand-owned juice at supermarkets. Just back from Pak ’n’ Save and New World in my area, and mostly it was Citrus Tree and Keri (French and American). Fresh-up, Just Juice: also French. New World at least had a few Pam’s three-litre juices left, which I paid $4·85 or thereabouts for—and Pam’s was, once, the poverty brand. Where are the Kiwi juices that are also good value for money?
   Speaking of which, I now buy Hong Kong-made blank CDs and DVDs that appear to be marketed by a domestic firm, and they come in cheaper than the regular brands at Corporate Consumables. What the brand is, I can’t recall. But I will with a few more repeated purchases. (OK, just checked: they’re called Zone. And they are ink-jet safe, and I haven’t experienced any difference in performance between them and the Japanese and Korean branded stuff I normally buy.)
   Interestingly, the checkout girls are getting more multicultural. I had an Indonesian and an Iraqi serve me. The latter joked about being from Baghdad. I said, ‘Must have been a nice looking city when you were a kid.’ Her reply: ‘Not any more.’ But it sure is nice to be an émigrée, I’ll bet, away from the crap going on back home. I feel the same way (but as an émigré).
   Also bought Andrew Niccol’s Lord of War DVD, going for $15. Can’t wait to see what this Kiwi writer–director cooked up. I remember talking to his Dad about it when he was still writing it.