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Retail card spending shows slight rise

Shanton in voluntary administration

The Shanton chain of women's clothing stores has gone into voluntary administration just over two years after it was bought out of receivership.

Lynn Mall expansion gets under way

Work started this week on the $36 million expansion of New Zealand's first shopping mall.

NZ's $5.3 billion December shopping spree

Spending last month was up $300 million on December 2013, fuelled in part by Christmas shopping, Boxing Day sales, and New Year's Eve holidaymakers.

Warehouse shares slump

Warehouse chief executive Mark Powell says it will be "a very difficult ask" for the group to beat last year's profits after it announced weaker-than-expected sales.

Warehouse shares plunge on warning

Warehouse shares have plunged today after it said profits for the first half of the financial year are likely to be down 20 per cent.

Kathmandu reverses three-day decline

Big brand stores may head to Auckland

Mayor Len Brown has named big-brand international retailers Apple and Tiffany & Co as potential candidates to open their first New Zealand stores in Auckland.

Best job in the world ever

As chief toy tester and buyer for Farmers, the 31-year-old has a big role choosing which toys will be hot at Christmas.

We're hitting the shops hard

Christmas shoppers have bent the plastic, spending a whopping $2.3 billion in the first fortnight of December.

Dave Chambers: Hard work goes into keeping prices low

In a reply to today's column by Dita De Boni on supermarket costs, Countdown managing director Dave Chambers addresses the issue of pricing.

Dita De Boni: Time for some Aussie stick in the aisles

In NZ, our supermarkets won't even sign up to a code of conduct, let alone agree to legislation being debated, writes Dita De Boni. It's time for the Govt to step in.

Web retailers push delivery boundaries

Web retailers are offering shoppers speedy shipping, one-day upgrades and even promises to deliver last-minute orders by Christmas Day.

Card spending rises, led by hospitality

Kiwis increased their spending on debit and credit cards in November, with a rise in hospitality and consumable purchases.

Liam Dann: Tax-free shopping has a cost

Australian retail billionaire Solomon Lew has declared war on his Government's failure to charge GST for overseas goods bought online.

Can Pumpkin Patch recover?

The woes of one-time market star Pumpkin Patch continue with one accounting professor saying the struggling retailer may now be worth more to shareholders broken up.