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Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 12:56 pm
by Llessur2002
Interesting - looks like Bank of China are taking one of the new retail units on the ground floor of 1 King William Street.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:50 pm
by 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?

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:52 pm
by The Scooter Guy
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.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 3:57 pm
by The Scooter Guy
Priceline in the Myer Centre has enlarged their business and taken over the former space where Whacky Shack was.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:33 pm
by The Scooter Guy
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).

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 8:26 pm
by 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 ?

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:07 pm
by Waewick
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....

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:13 pm
by Blimp
OTR is open 24/7 if you're desperate for shops, if you're after a meal there's always fast food.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:22 pm
by 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.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:36 pm
by 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

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:55 pm
by ghs
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.

News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:04 pm
by 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.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:06 pm
by ghs
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.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:32 pm
by 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.

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:56 pm
by Nathan
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.