Some items on sale at Auckland Airport cost more than double their price at the nearby shopping Centre.

Handbags, sweaters and dresses were flying as hundreds of shopaholics fought their way into the opening of New Zealand's first Topshop outlet yesterday.

Businesses have been warned not to misread any pre-GST tax hike sales boom.

For decades Auckland's built heritage has been wiped out, one building at a time, by property developers. But not all of them want to swing a wrecking ball.

Vodafone NZ's market share sank below 50 per cent last year as new kid on the block 2degrees mobile entered the market.

Consumers face price increases beyond the likely 2.5 per cent rise in GST later this year, small businesses say.

Local record shops aren't ready to bite the bullet just yet.

Retail sales sagged in February, their second substantial fall in three months.

Consumers are used to getting a bargain, and this sentiment has shown up in diminished retail sales figures in February.

A $1 billion plan could almost quadruple the size of Mt Wellington's Sylvia Park and make it a new town hub.

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

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.