Casual wear retailer Jeanswest has introduced cameras in some changing rooms which film shopper's bums as they try on clothes.

The Department of Labour will consider prosecuting 38 retailers after 19 were caught trading on Good Friday and another 19 on Easter Sunday.

CC's and Aztec corn chips have been cut from supermarket shelves in New Zealand and have been replaced by a locally made version of the American brand Doritos.

Telecom shares sank to new a low on the NZ sharemarket today, while rises in Fletcher Building, Contact Energy and other leaders helped carry the market higher.

The choices we make at the supermarket checkout are less down to personal taste than we might like to think.

Revenue at the newly-listed Kathmandu rose 27.5pc in the six months to the end of January.

New Zealand's biggest shopping mall is planning a major expansion, including multi-storey apartments and office blocks to create a "mini CBD".

A proposed optic fibre cable linking NZ, Australia and the USA would unleash billions of dollars of economic potential by connecting NZ businesses to global markets by 2013.

Michael Hill International's half-year profits have plunged 66 per cent on the previous period, but the jeweller is reasonably pleased with the result in tough trading conditions.

Newcomer mobile company 2degrees says it has signed up 206,000 active customers in its first six months.