The Friday before the AFL
Grand Final (Friday 3oth September) is a public holiday in Melbourne. Last year
was the first year this holiday took place and traders decided it might be a
good opportunity to make a feature of the occasion in our trading calendar.
Whilst market crowds on the
Grand Final day itself (Saturday 1st October) can suffer from the city’s focus
on a TV event, the Friday has the potential for good market crowds particularly
as fans congregate in the CBD for the team parade.
QVM has been promoting its
Feast of Footy over the month of September including
- Regular football clinics in A
shed.
- Queen Vic Big Kick.
- Bucking Footy.
- Grand Pie-nal Day.
Radio station Gold 104.3 will
be holding their Grand Final Breakfast at the market on the morning of Thursday
29th September (see separate article) and we can expect the impetus to flow
into the Friday Public Holiday and hopefully into Grand Final Day itself.
Traders are urged to enhance
the theatre of the occasion with their stall displays and contribute to making
the Grand Final, particularly the lead up including the Friday Public Holiday,
a successful and profitable part of our trading calendar.