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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
The Register team was interested to see a new crop of sales popping up for Matariki late last month. We asked two companies marking the Maori New Year with discounts about their motivations.
Readers, writers and those who keep them in books celebrated this week as the bookseller and publisher of the year were crowned at the Book Trade Industry Awards in Auckland on Sunday.
Foodstuffs North Island is catering to Auckland’s cultural melting pot by making product food changes in “ethnoburbs”, or multi-ethnic communities.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait, it’s a drone! The future of delivery is here, as a parcel delivering drone successfully completed a flight in Auckland. Commercial aerial delivery service Flirtey completed its first parcel flight from Penrose to Mount Wellington in less