Trading has been pretty steady so it looks as though it's been a good Boxing Day for retailers around New Zealand today.

This is, for us, as good as it gets. Prince Charles has pretty much for 20-plus years embraced the idea of sustainability.

By Saturday morning, [the national hurricane center was] locked onto southern Louisiana. It was a pretty darned good two-day forecast, and nobody trusts four- to-five-day forecasts anyway, whether it's a hurricane or not.

A flatter retail market in the new year, there's no doubt the economy is slowed down.

Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business.

I own a business, and my wife was expecting our first child, and boxing out of Nashville is pretty hard anyway. And I just had a lot happening and my family takes priority, ... There weren't any great opportunities happening, and I was just focusing on my business and my family.