Foodstuffs to close five Gilmours and Toops stores
Foodstuffs has gone ahead with closing five of its stores nationwide, despite a spirited community campaign to save one of the stores in question.
Four ways to drive and attract in-store traffic
Online shopping impacting on bricks and mortar shopping is a challenge many shop owners are facing. Vend speaks to two retail experts who outline the ways retailers can wrangle the keyboards away from their customers and get them in store.
A bunch of party animals
Newmarket children's shoe store Future Feet has a shopfront that stands out from the street. The whimsical, fun display features a soft toy animal band to be enjoyed by adults and kids alike. If you've got a great display in your store, why not show
In-home marketer Black Box creates new awards scheme
Everybody loves free stuff. Accordingly, when in-home marketing company SampleCo proposed to give away big black hampers of full-sized products for free through its Black Box brand, there was a strong consumer response.
Data digest: Shopping in store trumps shopping online
Bricks and mortar store owners, rejoice – a Timetrade report has found consumers prefer shopping in store. More than half (65 percent) of respondents prefer to buy an item in store, as they like to touch and feel products before buying them.
Fillin’ teds goes wrong at Phil&Teds
Kiwi baby product company Phil&Teds is recalling thousands of teddy bears from children who have been in the hospital as their filling could be a choking hazard. The recall notice was issued today.
Not hot ice cream, but haute ice cream
Giapo Grazioli may be the only person in New Zealand with a doctor's prescription for ice cream. He's also making a worldwide name for himself by transforming ordinary ice creams into the extraordinary. Elly Strang finds out what can other businesses learn from the guy
Retail departures and arrivals at Auckland Airport
There’s been a changeover at Auckland Airport’s duty free strip. Long-standing duty free retailers DFS and JR Duty Free are jetting off to parts unknown, to be replaced by new arrivals Aelia Duty Free and The Loop Duty Free from the end of this month.
How to shift product when your customers won’t leave the house
Sometimes it seems like products don’t exist to customers unless they can be home delivered in a box. Clothing giants ASOS and The Iconic are making a killing from their online-only model, while My Food Bag is storming ahead with meal ingredients kits. Shave Union
Ecommerce trends for New Zealand retailers to consider
From your boss to your grandma, everyone seems to be online shopping but the quest for retailers is to get the customer to purchase on their website, not a cheaper one five pages on. Here we’ve rounded up five trends that we believe add a