Parking
Is easy parking the key to more shoppers? Last Friday (15th September) was Park(ing) Day. As the website explains, “Park(ing) day is a global, public, participatory project where people across…
A brief chat with GPT
Yesterday I had a very quick chat with ChatGPT, the new conversational artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI. I asked "What can we do to activate old main street retail locations?"…
Air conditioning
Let's talk about air conditioning. Here in Queensland (south east corner), for about 3 weeks a year life can be pretty tough without air conditioning. During the day everybody heads…
How major shopping centres outcompete smaller retail strips and main street/high street precincts (…and what to do about it)
If you were to stop someone when they're out shopping and ask them why they shop there, you'd probably get a blank look! If you dig deeper, it generally comes…
Are you a retailer in a (smaller) shopping centre?
You should work with your fellow retailers to get people to ‘BIE’ (or why smaller shopping centres, high street type shopping areas and suburban precincts need to take a leaf…