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Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

#1816 Post by Llessur2002 » Tue May 31, 2016 12:56 pm

Interesting - looks like Bank of China are taking one of the new retail units on the ground floor of 1 King William Street.

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#1817 Post by Ben » Tue May 31, 2016 8:50 pm

Rays outdoors on west terrace is closing in next couple of months. Maybe a site for another car yard to move too? Mazda or Kia maybe?

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#1818 Post by The Scooter Guy » Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:52 pm

monotonehell wrote:
Ben wrote:Miniso is empty... I see this as good for mankind.
Funnily enough the other similar place around on Grenfell Street (Pop Mart?) has a landlord's notice in the window, still full of pop culture knock off tat however.
Pop Mart is located where Bendigo Bank was on King William St.
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#1819 Post by The Scooter Guy » Fri Jun 24, 2016 3:57 pm

Priceline in the Myer Centre has enlarged their business and taken over the former space where Whacky Shack was.
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#1820 Post by The Scooter Guy » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:33 pm

Ben wrote:Rays outdoors on west terrace is closing in next couple of months. Maybe a site for another car yard to move too? Mazda or Kia maybe?
All the rest are closing too. And they will be re branded into other competing outlets (Kathmandu, Rebel Sport, BCF, etc).
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#1821 Post by ghs » Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:26 pm

There need to be some changes made so that the supermarkets in the city can stay open later on saturday and
sunday nights. I've met a couple of tourists who have been surprised by how early they close on the weekends.

If a group of tourists fly into Adelaide late on a saturday or sunday afternoon where are they meant to get food from ?

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#1822 Post by Waewick » Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:07 pm

ghs wrote:There need to be some changes made so that the supermarkets in the city can stay open later on saturday and
sunday nights. I've met a couple of tourists who have been surprised by how early they close on the weekends.

If a group of tourists fly into Adelaide late on a saturday or sunday afternoon where are they meant to get food from ?
IGA stores are generally open til 10.

it isn't like things don't open the next day....

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Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

#1823 Post by Blimp » Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:13 pm

OTR is open 24/7 if you're desperate for shops, if you're after a meal there's always fast food.

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#1824 Post by ghs » Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:22 pm

I give you the following scenario :

A group of tourists come over from Melbourne late on a saturday afternoon. They are on a budget and are
staying at the backpackers place on Waymouth street near Light Square. The two IGA stores are a long walk
from Light square. What are they meant to do ?

They can't take a shopping trolley full of groceries on an aeroplane lol.

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#1825 Post by Torrens_5022 » Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:36 pm

So the one day of the week Coles doesn't open at midnight, you whinge about - I'm sure the other 6 days a week the backpackers can head to coles at midnight, other than that there's OTR, plus there are 4 IGA's in the CBD

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#1826 Post by ghs » Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:55 pm

Torrens_5022 wrote:So the one day of the week Coles doesn't open at midnight, you whinge about - I'm sure the other 6 days a week the backpackers can head to coles at midnight, other than that there's OTR, plus there are 4 IGA's in the CBD
Mate, if you read back through my posts on this thread you will find out that it's not actually me who is whinging about it.
I meet quite a few tourists through my work and I've had a couple recently who have complained about the supermarkets
closing early on the weekends.

Are there any IGA's near Light Square ? I don't think so.

OTR on west terrace doesn't have a good range and its expensive.
These tourists are on a bugdet lol.

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#1827 Post by Wayno » Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:04 pm

I think we just have a situation where the city population is slowly growing. When certain areas without a corner shop hit critical mass then more convenient store/IGAs will appear.

Supply and demand.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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#1828 Post by ghs » Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:06 pm

Wayno wrote:I think we just have a situation where the city population is slowly growing. When certain areas without a corner shop hit critical mass then more convenient store/IGAs will appear.

Supply and demand.
Why can't the supermarkets open later ?

They're cheaper and provide a better range.

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#1829 Post by mgb » Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:32 pm

Most days of the week Coles on Grote Street is open at midnight. Not quite sure why they have to close from 9pm to midnight, might be economics or might be regulation. If it is regulation then I agree this should be changed to allow them to trade 24hrs if they want to.

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#1830 Post by Nathan » Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:56 pm

mgb wrote:Most days of the week Coles on Grote Street is open at midnight. Not quite sure why they have to close from 9pm to midnight, might be economics or might be regulation. If it is regulation then I agree this should be changed to allow them to trade 24hrs if they want to.
Given they actually open at 12.01am, it suggests it's a regulation thing.

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