2012-05-21 10:50:06 // Esther Goh
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Paperless receipts are one of the least evolved aspects of retail, and it's about time things changed, say the duo behind Paperkut.
2012-05-15 15:23:06 // Esther Goh
Fashion lovers may not quite be spoiled for choice here but their options are growing with the launch of StyleTread and My Shopping Secrets in New Zealand.
2012-05-11 10:49:57 // Ben Fahy
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Countdown's upping the customer experience ante with the launch of its iPhone app that features a digital shopping list and barcode scanning technology, as well as the ability to check prices, find recipe ingredients, collect loyalty points and shop online.
2012-04-16 09:47:08 // Idealog
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Trade Aid is bringing consumers and producers closer together this month with the help of instore touch screens.
2012-04-16 09:42:09 // Idealog
TradeMe and global e-commerce platform ChannelAdvisor have cemented a new relationship that will let online retailers sell their wares directly through the auction site.
2012-04-10 17:08:12 // Idealog
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New Zealand Pork has a brand new initiative underway targeting consumers via in-store and online activity, including Facebook and YouTube, drawing on the star power of chef Simon Gault.
2012-04-10 15:03:49 // Kaleb Francis
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If you've been ignoring the rise of e-commerce and social media, it's not too late.
2012-04-03 14:37:42 // Simon Pound
// Idealog #38: now
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Dion Nash, founder of the just-launched skincare company Triumph & Disaster, tells Simon Pound how metrosexuality translates to a hot new brand.
2012-03-12 16:51:29 // Idealog
Retailers are continuing to mislead consumers about their legal rights by promoting extended warranties, a Consumer NZ mystery shopping survey has found.
2012-03-12 09:13:48 // Simon Pound
// Idealog #38: features
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It's a classic Kiwi story of little guy made good. And after being pitted against dairy giant Fonterra over perceived product similarities, the two blokes behind brand Nice Blocks are hanging off the back end of a tiger.
2012-02-27 10:43:04 // Idealog
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The web may have brought about an upheaval in the retail environment but bricks and mortar shops still have a place in our hearts.
2012-01-12 12:29:29 // Idealog
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St Lukes is about to get a whole lot bigger with the mega-mall set to double available floor space and be re-zoned as a town centre.
2012-01-10 10:59:45 // Idealog
Retailers around New Zealand are about to get access to unprecedented amounts of bulk gift and homeware products at clearance prices.
2011-12-12 08:51:57 // Kate Beecroft
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Newmarket's Qubic Store is embracing the ‘recycle and reuse’ philosophy, fitting out its space with a range of everyday materials that have been reused in new ways.
2011-11-04 10:10:02 // StopPress Team
Capitalising on the mobile and online movement, Reachmedia has released the next version of its catalogue viewing platform, which effectively takes catalogues, resizes them and publishes them in a Facebook environment and on mobile apps.
2011-11-01 15:35:38 // Idealog
GrabOne’s quest to dominate the daily deals world continues today, with the launch of its seventh vertical, GrabOne Families.
2011-09-28 13:55:04 // Idealog
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SmartPay and Snapper have teamed up for a venture that will see the companies extend a contactless payment system across New Zealand's biggest Eftpos network.
2011-08-18 10:14:26 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog #34: workshop
Creating lingerie stores in the conservative Middle East market was quite an undertaking for Space Studio.
2011-08-10 17:13:58 // Esther Goh
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Just a year old, Kiwi startup Vend has raised a big chunk of capital from Europe and now has its sights set firmly on the US market.
2011-08-02 10:35:32 // Esther Goh
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Mobile devices and social media are the key drivers behind online retail growth, with expenditure in this area now accounting for 5.1 percent of all retail sales.
2011-07-11 17:02:22 // Idealog
Kiwis indulged in a bit of retail therapy last month, according to figures from Statistics New Zealand, but one place we weren't opening our wallets was at the pump.
2011-03-09 17:17:00 // Design Daily Team
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How to best design for retail is the hot topic up for discussion at the upcoming Designers Speak Series 2011. The DINZ event will feature insights from speakers in retail, design, branding and architecture.
2011-01-11 11:23:38 // Design Daily Team
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Auckland’s inner city retail spaces are set to receive a floral lift as part of the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival. As part of the festival, the Suburban Floral Association will work in Auckland’s inner city shopping area to bring floral blooms into a recession hit inner city shopping area, in a project called ‘Shopfront’. The project is the first venture into Auckland for Wellington Public art programme Letting Space.
2010-12-14 14:16:50 // Deirdre Robert
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When public art programme ‘Letting Space’ commissioned Kim Paton to create an art project in an empty retail space—themed around artists exploring the commercial environment—she struck upon a free supermarket idea, bringing together community groups, artists, schools, the council and local businesses to help effect change.
2010-10-29 14:39:32 // Design Daily Team
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This new retail space doest require any cooling devices to retain its icy and all-round cool appearance. The Richard Chai store is a temporary installation courtesy of Snarkitecture—a collaborative practice between an artist and an architect—in conjunction with designer Richard Chai, as part of the Building Fashion series.
2010-09-17 09:17:01 // Vicki Holder
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A respect for classic design defines optometrist Michael Holmes’ latest venture – a boutique store that opened this week in the heart of Auckland’s High Street.
2010-09-06 12:55:17
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Don’t go recycling your plastic waste, give it to Eve Armstrong instead. The artist is on a mission to build a massive public sculpture comprised of the plastic wrapping that surrounds our daily lives. Aptly titled Taking Stock, the sculpture will be a retail display landscape made up of what is usually thrown away, and will turn the mirror back on the shopper. It's all part of the Letting Space public art series, which runs in vacant commercial sites in Wellington and seeks to transform the relationship between artists, property developers and their city.
2010-07-15 12:10:57 // Amanda Cropp
// Idealog #28: features
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Talk about turning the corner: a major illness turned hairdresser Rebecca Herring into an artist and then a fashion designer. By Amanda Cropp.
2010-06-24 12:31:42 // The Editors
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When self-confessed ‘bike nut’ Tim White came back from a couple of years in Canada he had a dream of setting up a different kind of bike shop. So he did and T. White’s Bikes is now getting its wheels on.
2010-04-01 07:43:05 // Ben Corban & Dean Poole
// Idealog #26: features
As Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Dean Poole and Ben Corban, co-founders of Alt Group, would agree. On a European jaunt to pick up a coveted grand prix prize at the red dot design awards, they kept a detailed travelogue. Here are their top five observations and predictions for the year ahead.
