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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on August 7, 2012 at 7:40am

Good idea Matt. I will assist by collating such information from a Tasmanian perspective.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on August 7, 2012 at 3:28pm

Yes Matt, I am collecting the stories published here in SA from Day 1

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on August 8, 2012 at 7:20pm

I do not Alan will you make me wait very long??

Fond regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Martin Essenberg on August 9, 2012 at 9:12pm

In Gympie the main street used to be full of shops. Mary Street got a lot seedier years back when Centro opened with a big Woolworths and Big W. The Goldfields Plaza (with Coles) also declined.

 

Since the GFC started a few shops have closed in Mary st and I am told shop rents have dropped about 25%. Shops in Centro seem no better off. Shops seem to open one month and there is a new shop in that spot a few months later.

 

Now there is a new shopping centre with a Woolworths in "South side" (south Gympie) We also have an ALDI and IGA

Now a new Bunnings is to open in Monkland and Mitre 10 is going to build a new one there also.

So business is booming surely? Gympie is still much the same size and we have 2 Woolworths, a Coles, an Aldi and an IGA. Something MUST give. Forget the economic climate- this surplus in shops must cut margins and destroy something soon.

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Permalink Reply by Rae Billett on August 10, 2012 at 5:27pm

You drum up business so well Al..haven't lost your touch. Ohh hang on where's the French mon ami.  
 
alan mikkelsen said:

Caroline, tootle along to Eclectic, above.

Cheers  bro' al

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Permalink Reply by Rae Billett on August 10, 2012 at 5:37pm

It is true Matt they don't want the real situation reported and I have to wonder why the media is so incapable of doing so. Does our beloved leader have them all running scared on the basis of the Finglestein report.

 

Not to mention if a business goes bottom up they cannot say it is because of the carbon dioxide tax or for that matter anything to do with bad Government.

 

This is the most hated Government in the history of this country Matt and will, in the fullness of time, pay the ultimate price but that does not help those who have just been given their pink slip. 

 

As far as closures in my neck of the woods, the place is going okay, well apart from many small businesses, why? Because we are sending coal to China by the shipload so the Chinese can have cheap electricity to keep their economy bubbling away nicely - thank you very much....

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