In 2001, Consumers Institute head David Russell warned food prices were likely to rise once the supermarket industry shrank from three big players to two.

The grocery industry, lest we forget, is basically trench warfare, Tim Morris insists.

A cut-price supermarket chain in Australia is offering a $108,000 starting salary to university graduates, prompting further concern over the increasing wage gap between New Zealand and Australia.

The largest Gilmours food-wholesaling operation in New Zealand has been sold by Foodstuffs to private owner-operators.

NZ supermarkets are rationing baby formula because of fears of a shortage caused by Chinese buyers selling it in bulk to parents back in their homeland.

Most workplaces seem ill-prepared to accommodate the new law change which would allow managers to exercise more control over workers' regular breaks.

Pak'nSave has topped the list of the country's cheapest supermarkets - for the 10th year running.

New World and Four Square stores in Auckland have axed their 5c charge on plastic bags.

A Wellington supermarket is forced to axe a compulsory plastic bag charge it introduced only four weeks ago.

The number of plastic bags used by NZ shoppers has been slashed by 157 million over five years - almost a quarter of the original total.