News & Discussion: CBD Retail

[Llessur2002]

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

[Ben]

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?

[The Scooter Guy]

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.

[The Scooter Guy]

Priceline in the Myer Centre has enlarged their business and taken over the former space where Whacky Shack was.

[The Scooter Guy]

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).

[ghs]

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 ?

[Waewick]

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....

[Blimp]

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

[ghs]

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.

[Torrens_5022]

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

[ghs]

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.

[Wayno]

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.

[ghs]

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.

[mgb]

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.

[Nathan]

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.