Lol. “Not touched up” is the wrong term from my end.
The council and/or HomeCo has not spent a cent of the carpark was the term i was getting at before.
Roselands Shopping Centre in NSW is getting a big revamp with a 16,000 sqm Global Supermarket being included.
How to say Costco without saying Costco.
Did not know that Centro is now HomeCo. Bit of a weird name change. HomeCo sounds like the name of a home furnishings retailer. Centro was a perfect name for a shopping centre.
Here is the redevelopment news on the HomeCo. Roselands website:
https://home-co.com.au/post/homeco-roselands-local-community
To further improve accessibility and ease of movement around the precinct, the redevelopment also proposes an intersection upgrade and a new roundabout at Roselands Drive and Roselands Avenue , designed to provide congestion relief and improve traffic flow for the community.
Plumpton Marketplace is now HomeCo.
Seems like they’ve rolled the name out to a lot of shopping centres that HMC Capital owns. But they’re all types of different centres.
I had only seen the branding at HomeCo Caringbah which was previously the Super Centre and before that Caringbah Home. That centre is home furnishing retailers like Harvey Norman, JB HiFi, Freedom, Fantastic Furniture, DecoRug, Forty Winks, The Sleeping Giant, Adairs etc.
HomeCo has been rolling out to various centres in recent times. But the name doesn’t suit the Roselands Shopping Centre. It’s more suited to the types like Caringbah where the fewer shops are home “home” related than those at Roselands.
Good to now read the description of the redevelopment of Roselands, and the street upgrades (including a roundabout at that tricky intersection).
Yeah, maybe there should have been separate HomeCo and ShopCo centres.
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What they’ve done is add HomeCo to the front of the shopping centre names, like HomeCo Plumpton Marketplace (which is like putting lipstick on a bulldog). I’d dare say that’s a way to differentiate the shopping centres from the homemaker centres.
In my example, Plumpton is only just up the road from HomeCo Marsden Park, which is both a former Masters and a homemakers centre, there are two blocks of it.
The other divisions of HMC Capital are…wait for it…HealthCo and DigiCo. I’m waiting for SportCo, MediaCo, FoodCo, DrinkCo, SexCo… 
I still feel that way about the one in Victoria point in QLD. It was called Town center shopping center for a very long time then a few years ago Homeco bought it made a slight change to the sign but other than that not much else has changed.
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Yikes! Yuck! HomeCo Plumpton Marketplace. That’s quite a mouthful. 
I actually liked the old Marketplace M logo. It was very similar to the Woolies W logo so there must have been a connection. Those Marketplace shopping centres were all anchored with a Woolworths.
Will point out, Plumpton is a shit hole, like most of the overcrowded hellscape that is western Sydney. There’s a reason why someone made a doco about the joint (Plumpton High Babies).
I believe some of them were owned by Woolies, but they sold them to HMC.
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My store had a refit some time ago, the make up and technology items (empty packaging) still get found around the store so theft still happens.
Also they’re implementing a new system whereby the filling of products gets done very early morning in every department (copying another retailer). The current setup has multiple teams filling across different departments during various times of the day (early morning, midday, early or late afternoon)
I’ll be interested to see how it works, as it is there’s barely anyone on the shop floor when they’re not around. So if everyone’s filling at the same time and go home at midday. Only managers and those behind a register would be available the rest of the day.
I always thought the original ruling was a bit silly.
I think most people have no objection to the facial recognition technology being used in any store, as long as it’s only used to flag people who have been banned from the store, with all images of random shoppers deleted immediately after processing.
Like a lot of things. Only the crooks or those in the wrong object.
Nah, it’s also the tin foil hatters who think Bunnings is going to secretly illegally store everyone’s photo for marketing purposes. Like, yeah sure the developers won’t blow the whistle if they’re told by management to do something as brazen as that right?
Oh it’s too late for that. They already know what you want.
Bunnings already hold a significant amount of data about their customers (especially those who use powerpass or flybuys) that they exploit for marketing purposes.
I’m not sure why we should necessarily trust Bunnings (or any other major retailer for that matter) - with the ability to easily and quickly collect and store data like what Bunnings has done, we’ve got to the point where we need to take a “zero trust” approach to anyone using surveillance as to what they will do with what they’ve captured.
We shouldn’t have to rely on whistleblowers
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Nearly half a million Aussie retirees and seniors can now receive a 5 per cent discount on their grocery shop. Romeo’s Foodland in South Australia has rolled out the cost-of-living perk across all its stores.
Hundreds of discounts on everything from travel, home and garden, clothing, supermarkets, education, retail and recreational activities have been included in the South Australian government’s 2026 Discounts & Deals Directory. The deals are available for more than 430,000 Seniors Card members.
Foodland and similar independents are often 20-30% more compared to the big two.
Every time I walk into an independent I know I’m paying more.