Paymark is celebrating 30 years of Eftpos use in New Zealand, during which time Kiwis have spent nearly a trillion dollars by swiping their cards.

Kiwi retailers can no longer count on a busy December period and should play the long game when it comes to maximising sales in the Spring/Summer holiday season. This means shopping events like Black Friday are now as much a part of the Kiwi Christmas

With Halloween done and dusted for another year, the lead-up to the traditional holiday season begins in earnest – as do the retail sales predictions. A clutch of surveys are predicting that holiday retail sales could be up by more than five percent in the

The once-edgy New Zealand womenswear brand Max is getting a revamp from new owners Barkers, after the menswear retailer received a similar reboot.

Halloween continues to grow in popularity among Kiwis. But it is possible to be more creative – and less wasteful – when celebrating it, say two major retailers who have gone head to head this year to ‘own’ Halloween.

Countdown’s nationwide roll-out of low-sensory “quiet hours” could spark a change across retail, as store owners become more aware of the needs of customers with autism and anxiety issues.

As part of our series on how retail automation will change the industry, we examine radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

We took a look at the state of automation in New Zealand retail. In connection with that, we wondered, how much innovation is New Zealand driving in this area?

As part of a feature article on how automation will affect retailers, we examined whether the headlines are true - are robots really coming for our jobs?