A Rotorua dairy owner has been left "terrified and shaken" after he was threatened with an axe - 24 years after he was bashed with a hammer in another robbery.
On Saturday afternoon Jerams' Superette on Te Ngae Rd was robbed by axe-wielding offenders.
The owner, who did not want to be named, said one offender threatened him with the weapon, yelling at him to hand over money from the cash register, before making a hasty exit.
The owner was not injured, but said the incident had left him shaken.
"It was really scary, I didn't know what to do, so I just did what he told me to do and thought 'God help me'," he said.