Shoppers say even after changing their spending habits, grocery items are still too expensive.

Not everybody sets up their business purely to make money.

Dairy giant Fonterra will reduce its domestic milk price from the end of the month and the savings look likely to be passed on to consumers at supermarkets. Fonterra froze the wholesale milk price for New Zealand after a public outcry last year.

Sanitarium has sent some 65 Christchurch staff home after an engineering report raised quake-related...