A liquor store employee had a bottle of spirits smashed over his head during a robbery in south Auckland last weekend.
The robbery took place last Saturday around 8.30pm when four men entered the Ti Rakau Liquor store in Burswood.
One man picked up some alcohol and tried to walk out without paying, police said.
When confronted by the store's lone employee, another man from the group attacked him.
All four men in the group then set on the employee, punching and kicking him before he was hit on the head with a bottle of spirits so hard the bottle shattered.