Take care you trademark your ideas is the advice from a New Zealand vintage clothes store owner who thinks Farmers may have copied her store name and logo.  Tannia Lee opened her Most Wanted store in the Aro Valley in Wellington in May. She ...

A proposed $25 million Countdown supermarket in Wellington, NZ, has been given the green light.The Dominion Post reports on stuff.co.nz that Countdown's parent, Woolworths Australia subsidiary Progressive Enterprises, has been asked not to build it d...

A checkout supervisor systematically stole almost $100,000 from the Hawera New World supermarket to help feed a gambling addiction.  Over a six to 12-month period, Janette Kemp, 47, used her swipe card to return items that had not been sold ...

Australian-owned NZ surfwear chain Amazon has purchased two rival Main Beach retail outlets in receivership, including the flagship store in The Plaza in Palmerston North.    BusinessDay.co.nz reports that Main Beach had five stores in ...

US online retailer Amazon has launched a grocery website in Britain, adding to uncertainty over how to value UK online grocery specialist Ocado as it gears up for an initial public offering.  Amazon said it would sell more than 22,000 produc...

Kiwi fans of the Swedish furniture outlet IKEA face an indeterminate wait for the brand to arrive in this country.  BusinessDay.co.nz reports today that Perth-based Cebas is the Ikea franchise holder for Western Australia and South Australia...

Consumers are feeling more comfortable about the economy and their own finances, according to a new survey, although some retailers still fear a "winter of discontent".  New Zealanders have become "clearly more comfortable", according to the...

Supermarkets don't rip off customers with huge mark-ups on fruit and vegetables, the Food and Grocery Council says.  The Green Party wants an investigation and says fruit and vegetable growers face ruin because two giant supermarket chains a...

Stung by falling stocks and sick of waiting for jobs to come back, Americans are in a sour mood about the economy. And it's getting worse fast.  Consumer confidence fell dramatically last month, adding to the evidence that the nation is in n...

Barnes & Noble's fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as it invested in electronic book technology, the bookseller said.The New York company also forecast first-quarter and full-year earnings below expectations as it plots aggressive moves into the...

A consumer law review suggests some New Zealand retailers may be taking advantage of unsuspecting shoppers by selling them extended warranties which are not worth the paper they are written on.  The review by the NZ Consumer Affairs Ministry t...

Whitcoulls is claiming a win in the debut of its Kobo e-reader as publishers mobilise to cash in on the new e-book market.  The bookseller launched the Kobo e-reader and its online book store a month ago. ...

"Value" has been the retail code for low prices during the global recession, but the oft-repeated word is taking on a broader definition that includes quality and selection.  US shoppers are still responding to the low price message as unemp...

Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron has just made her latest acquisition a nine-hole designer golf course in Tasmania.Branded variously as one of Australia's wealthiest women, a recluse and a clever retail operator, Cameron told The Independent she has jus...

The biggest shareholder in upmarket retailer David Jones will meet management and executives this week to discuss the departure of its former chief executive Mark McInnes, its plans to defend the brand and carry on its winning trading strategies.&nbs...