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GPT-owned Melbourne Central shopping centre.

Big Gun malls roar back to life, generating huge sales

Melbourne Central mall has roared back to life as shoppers flock to its Monopoly Dreams store, students meet to hang out and commuters come for lunch.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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Shoppers outside David Jones on Bourke Street ahead of its opening on Boxing Day.

Crowds swap Bourke St for online shopping on Boxing Day as retailers expect to rake in billions

Only a few hundred shoppers queued outside Myer and David Jones in Melbourne’s CBD before opening, but retailers are hoping for a rise in Boxing Day sales profits.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Acland Street

The exact day the music died on St Kilda’s Acland Street

One change created a dead end and a perception of nefarious behaviour in Melbourne’s once-vibrant playground that is worse than the reality.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Acland Street had the highest retail vacancy rate, with one in four stores empty.

The Melbourne shopping strip where one in four stores is empty

Despite a fall in vacancy rates across the city, agents say the upheaval of the pandemic wreaked havoc on some of Melbourne’s main strips.

  • Millie Muroi
Shoppers at South Melbourne Market.

South Melbourne traders warn of changing market into ‘another Chadstone’

Traders at South Melbourne Market have accused Port Phillip Council of trying to turn the market into another Chadstone Shopping Centre by hiking fees and demanding expensive stall fitouts. 

  • Cara Waters
Shoppers hit the Boxing Day sales at the Bourke Street mall on Sunday, in lower numbers than previous years.

Retail gets Boxing Day boost, though pre-dawn queues are out of fashion

Shoppers are expecting to set spending records this Boxing Day despite rising coronavirus case numbers.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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Masked shoppers hit up the Boxing Day sales in Melbourne.

What’s open and where are the best sales? Your Melbourne Boxing Day shopping guide

Got some Christmas cash or vouchers burning a hole in your pocket? Or perhaps you just love grabbing a bargain. Either way, let us help you plan for the Boxing Day sales.

  • Brittany Carlson
Diida designer Dimitria Papafotiou is hoping for stronger sales following Melbourne Fashion Week.

How fashion is set to reinvigorate Melbourne’s CBD and get you shopping again

Melbourne Fashion Week will stage runways at MCG’s underground car park, the Sea Life Aquarium, and the Regent Theatre in an effort to get shoppers offline and in stores.

  • Damien Woolnough
Ekrem Karakos and Alev Babayigit enjoy a move in cinemas on Friday.

As it happened: Melbourne retailers, cinemas, gyms throw open doors as restrictions ease

Shops are welcoming back customers and Melburnians can again head to the regions.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Retail expert Martin Ginnane and commercial property consultant Richard Jenkins say that Bourke Street Mall must be reinvented to keep pace with modern shopping trends.

Trouble at the mall: Melbourne’s prize shopping strip faces lean years

The pandemic, and the changing face of shopping, has left Melbourne’s famous Bourke Street Mall facing “grim” times with rents tumbling and vacancies rising.

  • Noel Towell

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