Cars and clothes drive Kiwi card spending increase
Fuel costs a big factor as billions in card spending dissected.
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The macabre items that have quietly disappeared from Costco's NZ store
'Strange they’re gone, I heard people were dying to get them.'
Rerehua Boutique founders making Māori business a family legacy
Co-founder Amy Pihema says Rerehua gives her a creative outlet to embrace her roots.
Kathmandu CFO gets chief executive job at Hallenstein Glasson
KMD Brands’ chief financial officer Chris Kinraid will leave the Kathmandu owner.
Small business: Meeting local demand for hijabi fashion
She started Posh Boutique in 2021 to help women like her find the right outfit.
Cost of living: The Warehouse expands fresh produce trial to five new locations
Chief executive Nick Grayston said the company is challenging NZ's grocery 'status quo'.
Low-level crimes are never low-level to the victims
OPINION: Criminals don't hit the big time at the start. They work their way up.
Spacefor delivers physical shopping experience for digital brands
Spacefor is helping online brands bring their products to physical shoppers.
Hello Foods receivership: Creditors claim $20m, liquidators called in
"We lost a lot of money."
How Villa Maria's new owner plans to take brand to next level
Chief executive Duncan McFarlane says the business started to meet an 'insatiable demand'.
Kiwi footwear brand receivership: BNZ owed more than $4m
'Accelerated sale' as supply chain nightmares cause pain.
Developer loses $87m battle against Auckland Council, Auckland Transport
Defendants didn’t dispute the Westgate vision, nor that it had not yet been achieved.
Lower inflation on food prices ‘a long way away’, economists say
Annual food price inflation is still close to 30-year highs.
Retail spending slump signals looming economic downturn
Card spending fell for the first time since February.
Yala habibi: Yala brings African bites and shisha to Dominion Rd
Yala means "let's go" in Arabic, says Mohammed Alawad of Yala Lounge.
Focus: Ikea finally on the way at Auckland’s Sylvia Park
The traditional big blue box, large-format store of 34,000sq m will sell the latest design and home furnishing at Sylvia Park. Video / NZ Herald
Focus: Supermarket trolley locks installed as public backlash grows against dumpings
Countdown has rolled out trolley locks at 12 undisclosed stores amid public backlash of dumping within communities. Video / NZ Herald
K Road pie shop failure blamed on Covid lockdowns
The popular dessert shop faced debt that couldn't be covered after the pandemic.
Konei founder: Economic development cuts will make outcomes worse for community
Manawa Udy says business is essential to help Māori and Pasifika thrive in Aotearoa.
Focus: Why new tasers could see police forced to wear body-cameras
New tasers are understood to be rolling out to frontline cops, but why does this mean they could be forced to wear body-cameras. Video / NZ Herald
Whanganui fashion retailers shift seasonal focus
'When it’s warm outside you don’t look for a massive woolly jumper.'
Focus: Retailers say fog cannons, bollards no match for thieves
Retailers across NZ are criticising government-funded security measures as ‘just a deterrent, not a solution’ to tackling the surge in retail crime. Video / NZ Herald
Hard to Find Books will survive 'but it won’t be easy'
Warwick Jordan says Kiwis should continue to experience the magic of second-hand books.
Retail sales down, signs of 'stark' year for Kiwi households
Some sectors sacrificed as surging cost of living forces tough choices.
Daldang introduces Kiwis to the Korean-fusion dessert ‘fatcaron’
Sun Hoon Kim brought fatcarons to NZ after the explosion of K-Pop in 2017.
Crime explosion, Costco and Ikea pose challenges to Briscoes: Rod Duke
He assured shareholders the group is aware of competition
Who's behind $40m+ Devonport Village property buy-up?
Ex-ANZ bosses have linked up with fiercely private heir to NZ's former richest man.
123-year-old southern retailer H & J Smith closing three stores, 220 jobs lost
'The Smiths are such humble people. They’re some of the most experienced retailers in NZ.'
Commerce Commission house building material probe: Government responds
Fletcher Building’s 94 per cent share of NZ's wallboard market is often cited on topic.
Wellington bar The George insolvent: landlord changed locks, $800,000+ owed
Landlord changed locks after bar failed to pay rent, and IRD makes move.
The Trusts budgets $40m expanding West Auckland outlets
Boutique pop-up bars, restaurant-led gastro pubs: walking distance from units, transport.
Real Groovy still making record sales after four decades
Founder Chris Hart says sales are up, especially for vinyl records.
First look: What's it like inside NZ's biggest build-to-rent project?
"We allow people to do decorating of their apartments. You’re allowed to bring your pets."
Food price inflation will continue to bite Kiwi households
Stats NZ said today that food prices are the highest since 1987.