Rising wages in China and an increase in the cost of raw materials will push up the price of shoes, the German head of Deichmann, Europe’s largest footwear manufacturer, said this week.
Stiff market competition and dwindling consumption are pushing German breweries and shops to cut beer prices by up to half, it was reported on Friday. Industry experts are worried a price war could even affect quality of the amber brew.
Workers at Amazon's Leipzig logistics warehouse voted on Friday to go on strike to protest for higher wages. They are fighting to get a minimum wage of €10.66 an hour from the online retail giant.
That two-year-old fridge that spluttered and died? The washing machine you had to replace after a year? Such planned obsolescence is no accident, with a new German study warning that many goods are not being made to last.
The German competition watchdog on Wednesday launched an investigation into the policy of online retailer Amazon which bans third-party traders from selling their products cheaper elsewhere on the web.
The man who transformed shopping in Germany died this week aged 89 and worth nearly €3 billion. Otto Beisheim, founder of Metro Group, home of names such as Real and Saturn, is The Local's German of the week.
US online retail giant Amazon said on Monday it had cut ties with a security firm at the centre of allegations that foreign seasonal staff hired in Germany were harassed and intimidated.
German Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen called Sunday for a thorough probe into allegations that foreign seasonal workers hired in Germany by US online retail giant Amazon were harassed and intimidated.
Internet retail giant Amazon promised to investigate after a television documentary showed foreign workers brought to Germany on temporary contracts for the Christmas rush being intimidated by suspected neo-Nazi security guards.
The German supermarket chains Real and Edeke on Thursday said they had found traces of horse meat in frozen lasagne already pulled off the shelves as a precautionary measure.
German supermarket chain Kaisers pulled its own brand frozen lasagnes from shelves to check for horse meat after British supermarkets detected up to 100 percent horse in their beef ready meals, it emerged on Monday.
Consumer confidence in Germany has risen for the first time in three months amid burgeoning optimism that Europe's biggest economy has put the worst of the debt crisis behind it, a survey found on Tuesday.
Ikea, the Swedish furniture conglomerate, posted record sales in Germany last year and plans to open 20 additional stores in the next decade, the <i>Wirtschaftswoche</i> reported on Saturday.
German men seem to be learning how to manoeuvre supermarket trolleys - and although women still do more shopping than their menfolk, the gap is shrinking, new data shows.
The government is planning to ban employers from secretly filming members of staff at work, while at the same allowing them to install more visible surveillance cameras, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Shop owners in the eastern Germany city of Dresden have been celebrating this week as the annual influx of Russians arrived to celebrate their Christmas and New Year, which for most involves a hefty shopping spree.
A former detective for the budget supermarket Aldi has claimed the chain deploys detectives and secret cameras to spy on its workers, according to a <i>Der Spiegel</i> published on Monday. The firm denies the accusations.
German sportswear and equipment maker Adidas has achieved record sales of more than €14.5 billion ($19.3 billion) in 2012 and sales will rise further next year, its chief executive said Thursday.
The German retail industry received a much needed last minute boost this year, as panicking present-hunters logged off from the Internet and flocked to the shops in the week before Christmas.
For the first time in years German – and not American – websites have shown the most dynamic growth in Germany, a study commissioned by the <i>Focus</i> news magazine showed.
More than four million Germans plan to cash in on unwanted Christmas gifts by either selling or auctioning them online, according to a survey published by the <i>Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung</i>.
An Austrian businessman is promising jobs for thousands of staff who worked at the bankrupt Schlecker drugstore chain – he plans to reopen 600 of the old shops as all-round corner stores.
German retailer Metro announced on Friday it is selling the eastern European operations of its Real supermarket division to French rival Auchan for €1.1 billion ($1.4 billion).
