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Good service still important

Viva talks to the faces we see in store to find out why personal service matters.

New auction site lets retailers do the bidding

A new website launching today reverses the usual auction process, with retailers making the offers instead of the consumers.

Good time for consumers

Customers are spoiled for choice and retailers are forced to discount and operate on razor-thin margins in buyers' market.

Low price strategy pays off for Kmart

Kmart says its customers are responding to its low price strategy, which it will continue.

MP: 'Dirt cheap' alcohol cause of 'mayhem'

Winz spends up on fashion

Jobseekers have spent thousands of dollars of public money at Glassons and Hallensteins in an attempt to impress future employers at interviews.

Collins rejects liquor pleas

DIY zeal powers up profits

The country's two biggest DIY and hardware chains have just notched up record profits as the national appetite for home improvement grows.

Shoppers wary of store card offers

Wheedle closes after 1 day

New auction website Wheedle is to shut down indefinitely as its management team carry out improvements to its failing systems.

Will you watch the Shopping Channel?

New Zealand's first full-time shopping channel has kicked off, but there were a few small teething problems - and a complaint about a bad taste banana joke. Add your comments here.

Strong lift in Chch retailing

Thai heir's family pay off dead cop's family

The family of the billionaire creator of the Red Bull energy drink have paid a "funeral fee" to relatives of a police officer killed in a hit-and-run allegedly involving the Thai tycoon's heir.

Online sales boost for Pumpkin Patch

Postie Plus takes hit from Babycity sale

Pumpkin Patch annual earnings slide 20pc