No huge shops on prime real estate, no TV adverts, no brochures into every home. After all how could they afford to sell so cheaply? But we learnt the answer is they don’t have all the overheads of a traditional retailer. We were both pretty skeptical, thinking it might be an Amway type pyramid scheme. So anyway I heard about this through Anna N, and in 2011 me and my flatmate Chris went along to an introduction evening. On average this is around 36% less than in retail stores. So you pay no more than 11% more than wholesale.

They can deliver it to you, or you can pick it up if you live near a store (like we do).ĭue to their number of members they can buy everything at wholesale price and sell it to you at the same price plus an 4% to 11% handling fee. You can order this all online through their website. Everything from batteries, soap powder and toys to lounge suites. They have a whopping 2,200 brands available, and over 500,000 individual products. You pay an annual membership fee and can then buy goods (and some services) off them. By coincidence I knew him as in a previous role he was an auditor in the 1990s for an charity I was the finance person for!īasically Cherrytree is a club. I was actually sceptical at first, and only went along to a promo evening because the brother of a friend worked for them in Hamilton, and she had told me about it.Ĭherrytree has been operating for 21 years, and is owned by a New Zealander. I thought it would be useful to outline how I got into Cherrytree, and how much we spend and save on it. You’ll see the advertisement on the right plus below.

On the basis there may be more people out there who would benefit from Cherrytree, they have signed up as an advertiser on Kiwiblog. Each time I’ve mentioned them, they have had several people join up.

I’ve mentioned a couple of times in the past how great I have found Cherrytree.

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