Is bigger better for super stores?
With Mitre 10 Mega stores reaching 14,000sqm, the new Nido store covering 27,000sqm and Ikea stores averaging 30,000sqm – or three hectares – will we see a rise of ever-increasing super-sized stores?
Ticking the customer-experience box with big-box retail
Big-box retailers are under threat internationally. So what is the outlook for New Zealand’s big-box retail?
Changes to pharmacy ownership rules imminent
Pharmacies continue to be the thorn in the side of New Zealand retail’s deregulated market policies, with rules to ensure pharmacies are majority owned by a pharmacist. Denise Piper investigates the changes that are coming to the pharmacy sector, with the ownership model set to
Fast and vast: Reaching shoppers through television advertising
New Zealanders may be super tech-savvy, multi-screen watchers but, at the end of the day, more Kiwis sit down and watch free-to-air television than any other medium.
Auckland’s Unitary Plan: To park or not park
Parking is vital to central-city retailers. As part of an in-depth study of Auckland's new Unitary Plan, we looked at how the plan will impact parking for retailers.
What the Auckland Unitary Plan means for retailers
Auckland is set to become a more compact, intensely developed city, with the now-revised Auckland Unitary Plan allowing more than 400,000 new properties over the next 30 years. But does the plan allow for enough retail development to cater for all this growth?
Upcycling trends: How Millennials and baby boomers cross over
Vinyl. Real food. Jeans. Handmade. Sugar-free. Retro clothing. Organic. Vintage. It seems everything trendy with younger adults these days is just a reinvention of the trends from our grandmothers’ post-war era. Do Millennials and baby boomers drive the same trends and have more in common
Attitude, not age, key to retail success
Energy, drive and a can-do attitude is what’s needed to start a retail store – not age – according to 19-year-old Benjamin Dobbs.
Victorian buildings offer retailers pleasure and pain
Oamaru, in north Otago, boasts a precinct of Victorian commercial buildings, made in a picturesque, Neo Classical style out of Oamaru stone. But while the buildings – built between 1865 and 1885 – are an attraction in themselves, the retail tenants inside them are sometimes
Retailers need to consider who will step into their shoes
Developing and training managers-to-be is one of the key things retailers should be thinking about, according to retail expert Chris Wilkinson.
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