Mainfreight has reported a 36.5 per cent fall in half year profit to $10.9 million.

Centro Properties Group is seeing signs of life in the retail sector.

Online shopping in New Zealand is about to boom to $1 billion a year but DVD rental stores, book shops and appliance stores may start to struggle.

All five food subgroups monitored by Stats New Zealand recorded monthly falls in October.

Spending using electronic cards edged ahead in October.

A Newmarket shopowner says thieves told him they'd move to Auckland's North Shore because the police 'are older, fatter and slower and they have fewer CCTV cameras'.