Retail

A Napier antique shop owner is blaming the high price of silver, after an overnight burglary at her store between Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Shopback says New Zealand is its fastest-growing market - but many shoppers are still asking, "What's the catch?"

Three former NZ employees of electronics giant LG have pleaded guilty to obstructing a Commerce Commission investigation into anti-competitive supply and pricing of television.

Someone once said shallots are for babies, garlic is for heroes, but you may have to pay heroic prices for the home grown stuff. Audio

The government wants to make retail a safer work environment by allowing for citizen's arrests. One legal expert fears the change will have the opposite effect.

Businesses are increasingly more confident of New Zealand's economic recovery, ANZ says, as interest rates lower and they anticipate more spending.

When Golriz Ghahraman hit the headlines again this year, another name popped up with the story.

A jewellery store owner is still concerned about safety, months after being hospitalised in a robbery.

Police say they have caught three men with $2700 of shoplifted loot, after a sticky fingered Boxing Day spree.

Shoppers have packed into stores on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, to take advantage of Boxing Day sales.

More than 4600 unwanted Christmas presents have been listed for sale on Trade Me by mid-morning on Boxing Day, and that number is expected to rise.

An increasing number of Asian style dessert parlours and bakeries have opened in Auckland in the past year.

A victim of a man who used various people's identities to hire a ute and thousands of dollars worth of equipment that was never returned said he has forgiven the offender and would like to catch up…

Our alcohol sales laws need an overhaul, researchers say. Audio

A shoplifter cut an Auckland supermarket security guard with a broken bottle this afternoon, police say.

Pak'n Save and New World's online shopping sites now offer the option of sorting by price again.

Accommodation in the capital this weekend is booked up due to a double whammy of the World of Wearable Arts and an All Blacks game. Audio

Customers who want to return items bought online may face more charges, as some retailers - like clothing giant ASOS - add up the costs.

Even more drastic change than the grocery commissioner's plans to ramp up regulation and enforcement is needed, Consumer NZ says