Christine & Co. is a gift shop at 500 Pollen Street in Thames, on the Coromandel Peninsula, holding a Google rating of 3.7. A good gift shop earns its keep by doing the choosing for you: a small, considered range rather than shelves piled high, with the everyday things like cards and wrap sitting alongside pieces you would never think to buy for yourself. In a town like Thames, where the main street serves locals and Coromandel travellers alike, the shops worth returning to tend to stock local and New Zealand-made work, and staff who can take a description of the person and the occasion and narrow twenty options down to two. Regulars also know that good gift shops rotate their displays, so the piece you hesitated over rarely waits for you. On Pollen Street, in one of the peninsula's most historic towns, Christine & Co. is there for exactly that kind of unhurried browse.