$14 for up and go? Christ, I’ve been away for 5 years and that’s insane.
For a six pack…yeah, $14 sounds about right. That’s $2.34 a carton. Still too much at any rate.
That’s NZ, not Australia. Some of the BP Connect stores here are already run by independent contractors. Sounds like a weird way to say franchising.
IIRC…
By the time HN opened in Muswellbrook at Muswellbrook Fair (which replaced Bi-Lo South Muswellbrook with Coles, on which Aldi now sits). both Retravisions in Scone and Muswellbrook closed, and had been closed for a while. Some of the long time furniture stores had closed, but if they didn’t by the time HN came in, it was the final nail in the coffin.
HN might have seen the combined Scone/Aberdeen/Muswellbrook and wider Upper Hunter area as an ideal spot to put a store - plenty of money from miners at the time. A few years before, Big W came to town when Muswellbrook Marketplace got expanded.
The case then, as it is now, is that most people go to Muswellbrook for fairly big purchases and dealing with some government agencies, if they don’t go up to Tamworth or down to Singleton or Newcastle (or probably go online more likely) for said purchases. Funnily enough, Singleton doesn’t have a HN, but has roughly the same stores as Muswellbrook has, except for Bunnings, Silly Sollys and IGA to name a few.
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Vibe Petroleum has entered the Tasmanian market with a location opening on Hobart’s Eastern Shore.
As Amazon pours tens of millions of dollars into new Australian distribution centres and uses AI to harvest data on what consumers are buying, Myer and David Jones are struggling to fund the very infrastructure that decides who wins in online retail: logistics and distribution.
The contrast with JB Hi-Fi could not be starker. The consumer electronics giant has the balance sheet and the discipline to invest in taking Amazon on. Myer and David Jones, by comparison, are fighting a capital-intensive war with empty pockets.
The latest casualty is Myer’s chief supply chain officer Darren Wedding, whose resignation was revealed earlier today.
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Flybuys change at Coles, allowing shoppers to cut up to $100 off their grocery bill in a single visit, instead of the previous $10 limit
Is it just me, or will stores continue to close (In Locations that do not co-feature another Big Major Store Offering)?
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Last week, GetUp, a political activist group, escalated its campaign by buying hundreds of billboard ads in shopping centres across the country within 50 metres of Coles stores.
“Here at Coles, we’re always watching you,” the ad reads. Footage of the advertisements has been viewed online over two million times. The billboard ads were taken down within two days.
The group is petitioning Coles to end its partnership with Palantir, which has been signed by more than 83,000 people.
Coles has denied it is passing on surveillance data to Palantir and insists it is only using the US company’s software for operational planning and analysis. Palantir is known for supplying tracking software to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies.
Good job Wesfarmers, it’s only taken them 12 years for Target to reap any of the success from their budget Kmart rebranding.
As the concept photo shows, the expansion will take place on the southern (Lonsdale Street) side of the complex, above the footbridges joining Melbourne Central and Emporium.
Melbourne Central currently records annual sales of more than $700 million, maintains 100% occupancy across 55,000 sq m, and attracts more than 55 million visitors each year.
That Monopoly Dreams place is still vacant and makes it look a lot less occupied than it could in such a visible part of the centre.
Part of the Monopoly Dreams space has been filled by the expansion of MINISO Friends.
Kmart Group general manager of property Ben Smith said there had been strong customer feedback over the five weeks since the opening of K Home in Box Hill South in Melbourne.
“It’s really a test and trial format, and it’ll take us some time to understand whether this is a format that will continue to roll out,” he said.
“But so far the results have been really pleasing and we’re really excited.”
I Reckon Dorothy Street in Leopold needs an Overhaul of it’s Shopping Strip, Agree? Maybe tear down the Current Supermaket along with the Takeaway Shop to Build a 1,000 Sq Metre Supermarket on the Same Site.
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Hasn’t been mentioned here (probably because it’s in the middle of nowhere)
Grafton is getting a 3rd Shopping Centre (or 4th if you count the Coles South Complex).
Think of it as a lower scale ‘Park Beach Home Base’.
Stores Include: Anaconda, Repco, Petbarn, Metcash Total Tools, RSEA, Anytime Fitness, Banjo’s Bakery & Oz Education Childcare
Repco & Anytime Fitness already have stores in town (Anytime Fitness is actually just down the road).
Mind you.. it’s been built halfway. Expected to be done by late 2026/early 2027
Hope Someone buys the the Land for Clyde Major Town Centre on Ballarto CNR Tucker’s Rd and starts Building it Sometimes in 2027 Possibly HaHa and also the Precinct Town Centre on Hardy’s Rd in Clyde North?
Good news for the area. The type of retail that is (probably) less impacted by online shopping.
The traditional shopping mall is definitely on the downward slide I think due to online. I don’t think any mall owners eg. Westfield, Centro, Lendlease etc are doing much in the way of opening/expanding/refurbishing such malls these days?