The introduction of franchising in almost every shopping centre and the gradual decline of family name owned business has lead to some shopping centres losing their charm. Every shopping centre in Brisbane seems to have a string of coffee places, a sushi restaurant, Restaurants from its country neighbours and an American hamburger Restaurant with Australian ingredients absent of traditional dishes like collard greens and pumpkin pie, a kebab shop and not much in the way of continental African or European diversity cuisine. Which, if you stroll from one centre to the next, makes it a bit dull.
The young entrepreneur 22 August 2018 with the trial pop up shop should control his jealousy smartmouth tongue if he wants to sell designer furniture. He should be brave and take some calculated risks with color scheme choices. Grey and pastels have been done before in the 1980's. I did talk to him about this. Australian designers that began thrity years ago, that are still here, perhaps didn't let fashion dictate to them their decisions, just to make money. They became leaders instead of followers. In their inception, even at the risk of initially not...
Read moreA 4 level Shopping Centre that incorporates an English Renaissance style heritage listed building known as MacArthur Chambers. Located on the North-East corners of Queen St, Edward St & Elizabeth St! Inside is a Woolworths Supermarket a Big W store & a JB HiFi! A drycleaner & alteration service! A shoe repairs & key cutting service! 310 seat food court with Wi-Fi coverage! You can download the MacArthur App! On Edward St are High End retail outlets featuring both national and international brands! The finest jewellery at Hardy Brothers to fashion icons such as Tag Heuer & Hugo Boss! Plus high tech Apple on the corner of Queen St & Edward St! Once known as the AMP Building constructed between 1931 & 1934! Formerly used as the head by the Allied Forces South West Pacific during WW2! Commander-in-chief then General Douglas MacArthur occupied the boardroom on the 8th floor from July 1942 to November 1944! A distinguished interwar commercial building with a fine traditional classical facade appropriate for a conservative financial institution in an advanced...
Read moreI went there with my father to purchase a self cooling water filter. We could not find a suitable one but, in case I had missed something I pushed the customer service button 5 times with no response despite hearing a man request service to the department. We went to the front to see if we could find him and were met with a middle aged woman who proceeded to complain that "they (Big W) won't put on the staff to do it." and she couldn't do it because she had to stay at the front. Other excuses came such as that they didn't stock these things because people can't carry them on public transport. This seemed odd as the only model they had was almost a metre tall while the one we wanted was only slightly larger than a kettle. She suggested we try a regional store. the cost of parking combined with lazy staff means I will do that, even if it isn't...
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