Neither have I. A completely unknown store to me.
Sucked into clicking on click bait.
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I have no concerns about facial recognition technology as I donât steal things from stores. In all honesty, all stores have had facial recognition technology since the first retailers appeared thousands of years ago - itâs the memories of the store owners and shop assistants that work in the stores. They personally recognise many of their good, bad, valued and loyal customers in a split second.
Let computers recognise the thieves and there may be a lot less thieving.
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Cue the song⌠(no, Iâm not joking)
Another retailer is jumping ship to Westfield.
The Athleteâs Foot joins retail exodus from Geelongâs Market Square | Geelong Advertiser
Opening excerpt (paywall article)
Store running for the door: Another Market Square exit
Another major retailer has joined the mass departure from Market Square to Westfield, as pressure mounts on the shopping centreâs overseas owners to act.
This upcoming festive season may be the last for people to get their Santa photos at Market Square.
More excerpts from the Geelong Advertiser article
The Athleteâs Foot is expected to open on level one of Westfield, between Strapper Surf and Connor, in the next fortnight, replacing streetwear fashion outlet Glue.
Both Glue and The Athleteâs Foot are owned by the ASX-listed Accent Group, and it is understood the latterâs presence at Market Square will continue until shortly after Christmas.
The exits are set to continue with Typo, owned by the Cotton On group, certain to vacate once its lease expires in December.
(Geelong) Mayor Stretch Kontelj has made it his mission to try and instigate action at the prime CBD site, but little has been said since he and (local Federal MP) Richard Marles met in April with representatives from Market Squareâs Singaporean owners Davinski Nominees and property manager Knight Frank.
They should shutter the place and replace it with mixed use apartments.
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If theyâre going to do that, I want to see the building height limit lifted so then the main district i.e Geelong CBD (or Town as locals call it) becomes some form of a smaller Melbourne, or kinda like the Gold Coast. Or heck, even their own Parramatta. More high-rise buildings so then theyâre like the next best Melbourne.
Iâll definitely miss Market Square when it goes, but in return hopefully it means Geelong gets more permanent residents and becomes a major regional but also metropolitan-class city. Think about it, a Melbourne-like city by the Bay. Major corporations opening new offices in Geelong, and the ABC moving its Melbourne news studio to Geelong (like how the ABC moved its Sydney news studio to Parramatta - their next-best Sydney).
Geelong has the potential to be like what Parramatta is right now, a secondary major metropolitan city. The Gold Coast is what you could call Queenslandâs second capital city, and Parramatta being New South Walesâ second capital city. Now Geelong should be Victoriaâs second capital city. Geelongâs population could be kinda like what the Gold Coast is now in a few years time if the building height limits are lifted.
The three assets on the block are Gympie Central and Whitsunday Plaza in Queensland, and Armidale Central in regional New South Wales.
Geelong CBD already has some buildings close to 20 storeys in height, I think thatâs probably high enough and comparable to what other similar-ish sized cities have (Newcastle, Wollongong, Hobart) have.
Speaking of Wollongong, their population is a bit higher than Geelong. Geelongâs population is at around 300,000, while Wollongong is at nearly 320,000. Basically (in this day and age) Geelong is what you could consider the Wollongong of VIC, and Wollongong is like the Geelong of NSW.
Geelong has an opportunity to become a Parramatta or Gold Coast-like city, but the building height restrictions are certainly preventing that from happening.
Went into the new Frankston Reject Shop this morning.
Itâs just opened and is clearly a Dollarama with Reject Shop paint out the front. Even down to the green and yellow stripes down the interior walls and the Dollarama branded trolleys.
Long aisle layout with lots of tall shelves. Quite a change from the recent TRS style.
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The Sydney Fish Market will run its Christmas/New Year season at its current location one last time, with the new site to open on January 19.
With another Target store in the Northern Territory closing (Alice Springs) on April 4 of 2026, it is worth mentioning that Target stores located in Shopping Malls in which does not have any of Kmart/Big W/Harris Scarfe in them will be closed down (Heaviest impacted states are WA, VIC, NSW and SA).
I was at my local Big W this morning and they have removed ALL of their traditional âconveyer beltâ style cash registers and everything (bar two small counter style registers just out of shot on the far right) is now self service check out.
My local Woolworths have also halved the number of similar âconveyer beltâ style registers and expanded their self service area too.
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Are you saying they have only just done this? Most of the major stores had this done where I am by 2022.
Only in the last month or two at the latest.
Woolworths was only done in the last week or so.
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The Woolworths was done when I was still there during a major revamp in 2020 and they had the front end done in the first half of 2020. They have it set up so they can add another for checkouts plus more but Iâm not sure what its like now. Iâve since left and from what Iâve heard they have done more changes since then.
The mirrors are interesting. Assume thats a security measure.