Preston
Market is the last major Melbourne
Market to trade on Sundays but approximately half the traders are
resisting management moves to introduce the extra day.
Preston
trades Wednesday through to Saturday including late night trading on Friday.
Management believes that the market needs to meet consumer demand for Sunday
shopping and address the competition provided by supermarkets.
Approximately
half the traders have signed a petition against the plan with at least one
trader complaining the move would ruin his family life. Management have offered
a 12 month “rent holiday” to encourage traders to accept the new arrangement.
A
survey conducted by Leader Newspapers back in March claimed “overwhelming”
shopper support for extended trading. Sunday grocery shopping is significantly
more popular than Monday and Tuesday shopping with under 25’s choosing Sunday
as their main day according to a Roy Morgan survey in 2016.
