How a late-night online shopping session mushroomed into a sprawling consumer boycott that is grabbing followers - and headlines.

A Queensland mum has catapulted self-serve checkout theft to an entirely new level with an elaborate barcode scam.

COMMENT: In the retail world, big questions are swirling, how exactly did the Ivanka Trump brand fall so hard, so fast - where does it go from here?

The list of retailers dropping products that carry the Trump name have grown.

New Zealand earnings before interest and tax fell to $1 million in the six months ended December 31 from $2m a year earlier.

A margherita pizza at Domino's is four times the price in the UK than it is in NZ.

An activist business can be wildly successful for a while, but it gets hard to stand out when everybody else adopts the same values

"Amazon is like every single bad job you've ever had - at once," says a former employee of the e-commerce giant.

Donald Trump's tweet against department store chain again raises questions about him using his presidential position to sway business interests for his family.

Homeware sales at its Briscoes chain rose 4.1 per cent while sporting goods sales through its Rebel Sport outlets gained 7.9 per cent.

Apple has been dethroned as the world's most valuable brand, while Lego has been named the world's most powerful.

The $2000 Thermomix, which is supposed to make life easier, is now at the centre of a bitter, emotional legal battle.

NZX-listed company Veritas has been given another extension to sell or close down the unprofitable grocery chain.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has joined to the chorus of executives speaking out about Trump, vowing to hire 10,000 refugees.

In less than a decade, one of corporate Australia's high flyers has gone from $150 million man to bankrupt, to drunk driver and now convicted fraudster.

The former boss of Billabong has been jailed for eight years for forging his ex-wife's signature to obtain a A$13.5 million ($14m) loan.

Staff at Pumpkin Patch's distribution centre are working their last day at the company this Wednesday - and they won't be getting redundancy.

Credit card spending in December topped the previous months in 2016, and exceeding the billing of the previous two years.

Enter the beauty floor of a department store at your own peril.

Early feedback on Christmas spending suggested 2016 was solid but not spectacular for retailers as a group, according to Forsyth Barr broker Suzanne Kinnaird.

The receivers of Pumpkin Patch will have all stores closed by mid-February after they couldn't entice a buyer.

Small businesses are upbeat about the year ahead, with confidence at its highest level in almost two years.

Customers, it turns out, prefer well-run stores to chatty shop assistants.

Eric Watson has his eye on consumers, capital markets and acquisitions as Auckland-headquartered lingerie brand Bendon heads to the US stockmarket.

A new entrepreneur's quirky idea went viral. But then she had to start fighting to protect it.

Veritas is working to deadline to present a plan for its unprofitable Nosh supermarket business to ANZ Bank.

Underwear maker Bendon plans to merge with US sleepwear company Naked. The deal would result in the combined company being a NASDAQ-listed

New Zealanders spent more on their cards in retail stores last month than any previous December.

The massive hiring spree suggests the e-commerce company expects a run of breakneck growth.

American Apparel, once a high-flying retailer that peaked at more than $600 million in sales, is headed toward liquidation.