Retail can be a workplace of extreme emotions, ranging from joy, to pain, to insanity in the busier times. Here's ten posts summarising the rollercoaster of emotions retailers go through on a daily basis.
The fashion industry is notoriously cagey about its production lines, so sustainable, ethically made clothes don't always come easy to consumers trying to track them down. However, a Kiwi expat and an Australian are about to launch a website called Well Made Clothes that will
As the long-lasting health and fitness trend intensifies, coconut water has become the latest must-have for clean eaters, paleo dieters and just about everyone else. But where did this trend come from?
Environmentally friendly clothing and surf brand, Sitka, is bringing a surf shop back to the city-slickers by opening a new store in the hub of Ponsonby. It describes the new store’s look as an “upcycled log cabin” made entirely of repurposed materials.
While a debate was raging over whether shops should open over Easter, stores that did open experienced a sales increase of 13 percent on average. Towns that fared particularly well were tourism hotspots, including Wanaka, Mount Maunganui and Mangawhai.
Sephora is a French chain of cosmetics stores that is in 30 countries. It generated over US$4 billion in revenue as of 2013. Hotfoot chief executive Juanita Neville-Te Rito explores what makes it such a powerhouse in the world of retail today.
It’s the topic that flares up every few months, with doomsayers predicting the end of bricks and mortar retail as we know it. Chief executive of the Newmarket Business Association, Mark Knoff-Thomas, discusses a recent poll in which local shoppers were asked if they preferred
Legendary Auckland record store Real Groovy has come back from the brink of death to experience redemption. Fittingly, this year it’s taken up shop in a former place of worship.
Deanna Yang is the founder of Moustache, a former milk-and-cookie bar turned milk-and-cookie bus. She shares her experience of being a young, New-Zealand born woman of Asian descent in Auckland who started up a business at the age of 21.
Yes, the craze is not over yet and we doubt it will be anytime soon. Countdown has just released its latest range of collectables with Disney in what’s been a clever partnership for the supermarket chain, because as we all know, kids (and some developmentally