About 20,000 tonnes of waste – equivalent to the volume of waste that fills the space of Eden Park – is diverted away from landfills every year, thanks to Foodstuffs recycling projects. This week Foodstuffs announced it had extended its recycling bag scheme to Canterbury.
It doesn’t make commercial sense to treat customers with disrespect, but it seems as if every plus-sized shopper has a retail horror story.
Bin liner, lunch holder, dog poo picker-uperer, water balloon replacement, washing bag. Just a few of the jobs that the polarising plastic shopping bag will happily undertake – after it’s carried your groceries home, of course.
It’s been a good decade for winemaker Rod McDonald. The company he founded in 2006, Rod McDonald Wines, is starting to take off overseas while his direct-to-consumer mail order wine club is also flourishing. We spoke to him about retail innovation and the business of
Queenstown is one of New Zealand’s most rapidly expanding retail markets, and the rise doesn’t look set to slow down anytime soon. The area surrounding Queenstown Airport, the Frankton Flats, has been a hotspot for developers in the last 15 years and development is only
Department stores have had a hard time in New Zealand over the past few decades, but RCG's executive chairman Paul Keane think that may be about to change.
On the eve of the 48th annual National Agricultural Fieldays, activity at Mystery Creek is bustling for what is the biggest and most important event for provincial New Zealand retailers. Fieldays runs from June 15-18 this year.
The Clearance Shed was established in 2009 and has 10 North Island stores. It has been under new ownership since April 2015 and is this month introducing a new look that’s full of character and quirkiness.
Kiwi handbag and accessories label Saben is best-known for its consumer-facing designer collections, but it also creates custom goods for many of New Zealand’s largest corporate retailers. We went behind the scenes with founder Roanne Jacobson to find out more.
Resident cats and dogs of shops and cafés serve as great mascots for a business and are often major drawcards for getting people in the doors. The Register set out to meet some four-legged friends in retail and find out about the new rules that