New Zealand retail sales fell in April, led by department stores, where sales fell 3.3 per cent.

Two All Black greats who used to share on-field tactics are now swapping advice on the supermarket trade.

Progressive Enterprises plans to build five new stores.

Michael Hill International is closing eight of its US stores, leaving it with just nine, all in the Chicago area.

Vivienne Westwood is to open 20 boutiques in China, and fellow British fashion house Burberry has confirmed that it will add 66 stores to its 44 Chinese outlets by 2012.

Police have been called in after a Govt "sting" of secondhand appliance dealers found some allegedly conniving with beneficiaries to deceive Work and Income.

Readers now have the option of turning digital rather than paper pages after yesterday's launch of Whitcoulls' e-book service.

A labour union claimed a first today as staff members picketed at a JB HiFi store inside an Auckland mall.

Roger Bull argues that bans on product displays in stores impinge on consumers' right to choose.