Melbourne retail
‘Give me my stuff back’: Woman charged after violent Melbourne retail incident caught on video
The 30-year-old woman from St Kilda East was arrested on Sunday and has since been granted bail.
- Hannah Hammoud
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‘Give me my stuff back’: Disturbing vision captures latest example of Victoria’s retail violence
A crowd gathered as a woman smashed her feet into the locked doors of a Melbourne boutique, before allegedly breaking in and leaving with a haul of clothes and cash.
- Cassandra Morgan
Demolished cakes, skipped scans and the ‘lost lamb’ act: Inside the brazen world of petty theft at Coles Prahran
In an afternoon at Coles Prahran, one of Victoria’s most targeted supermarkets, The Age witnessed firsthand how retail workers navigate a constant stream of theft, confrontation, and abuse.
- Cassandra Morgan
Shefali felt the blade before she saw it: How Victoria became Australia’s shop theft capital
Retail workers in Victoria are contending with a frightening unknown amid a crisis of violence, abuse and knife crime.
- Cassandra Morgan
A beloved grocery has sold fruit and veg for nearly 100 years. Now Woolies has come knocking
An “absolute institution” could prove no match for the supermarket giant planning to set up shop next door.
- Sophie Aubrey
‘Temu in real life’: Panda Mart calls security as huge crowd swamps ultra-cheap retailer
The new discount retailer has had its shelves stripped bare by shoppers who tried to force their way into its big-box store.
- Jessica Yun and Gemma Grant
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
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
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
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