24 hours in Chadstone: a postcard from Melbourne’s shopping temple
I spent a night in the mega mall in the week before Christmas, and even a bloated Victorian budget couldn’t spoil the mood.
More than 500,000 shoppers will visit Chadstone in the week before Christmas, says centre manager Daniel Boyle. Joe Armao
How many people could possibly be lining up to order pancakes for dinner at the biggest shopping complex in the southern hemisphere on a stinking hot Monday night in December, you ask? Dozens, it turns out.
Two million shoppers are expected to visit Chadstone Shopping Centre’s winding maze of 500 stores in December. It draws 23 million of them each year – a figure not far off the country’s entire population.
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