Apple, Tiffany, Zara, Ikea, David Jones and Marks & Spencer's are big-brand global retailers that may be eyeing Auckland for new flagship stores.

Whitcoulls is leaving its iconic Queen St shop so that Farmers can return to Auckland's CBD. Here is the latest selection of Your Views on the upcoming closure.

The rise of online shopping, discount-obsessed consumers - when it comes to trading challenges listed retailers have their fair share. And there's a new one appearing on the horizon. Through a rule....

Workers at the fast-food chain will be guaranteed 80 per cent of the average hours worked over a three-month period.

Pumpkin Patch rated the highest for customer satisfaction among clothing and sport stores.

Fast-food giant McDonald's has walked away from negotiations aimed at scrapping controversial zero hour contracts.

Australian intellectual property laws are more lenient than those of Europe and the US, causing problems for NZ designers.

Male models banned from flaunting their rock-hard abs as retailer says it is no longer relying on sexualisation of its employees to sell clothes.

Melanie Brown's campaign to raise £35,000 to set up a specialist wine store in Brixton, London, has exceeded its target.

Jordan Spieth's Masters Tournament title, his first major victory, continued a string of success for Under Armour.

NZ food prices rose at their fastest annual pace in over three years in March, pushed higher by rising fruit and veggie prices.

A recent online campaign led by Woolworths Australia has caused outrage among customers, who accused the supermarket giant for cashing in on Anzac Day.

The New Zealand Merino Company, which markets wool to customers on behalf of suppliers, has inked an $8 million one-year deal to supply 600 tonnes of New Zealand fine and medium micron wool to US....

Well known and established on both sides of the Tasman, Freedom's positioning is different across the two markets.

Grey Lynn and Mt Wellington residents will have to cope with buying their posh nosh separately from their booze this week if they plan to shop at Farro Fresh.

For the March quarter as a whole core retail sales paid for by credit, debit or charge cards were up 2.7 per cent - the fastest quarterly growth since December 2006.

Latest stats show New Zealand consumers are starting to spend up in the shops, with electronic card spending up 3.7 per cent last month.

Apple has instructed its sales force to prod shoppers to the company's website to purchase the new smartwatch.

As we cruise the aisles of The Warehouse, many of us will be unaware that the staff in red shirts ("Reds") around us are all in various stages of formal retail training.

The Commerce Commission's inquiry into an online toy and baby products retailer - accused of taking customers' money and failing to deliver - continues.

Retailers are calling for a revamp of Easter trading laws, as one rebellious garden centre vows to again defy the ban.

Retailers are being warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit bank notes after a number of reports of fake cash being used across the North Island.

Anzco Foods, New Zealand's third-largest meat company, said profit halved in 2014, a year in which it bought out shareholder Itoham Foods' half stake in the nation's only large-scale cattle....

Blunt founders Kington, Page and Brebner have been working hard to build an international name in the premium umbrella category.

The Warehouse Group boss Mark Powell is to leave after a four-year stint in which he oversaw a major strategic shift, including acquisitions and a nationwide revamp.

The Warehouse Group boss Mark Powell is to step down from the firm's helm and a process has begun to recruit a new chief executive.

In the pre-Christmas retail frenzy of 2013, US retail giant Target had its cash registers raided.