Businesses
for sale – a number of market businesses have popped up on Gumtree this week
including Viva La Calavera and Nautical Replicas in String Bean Alley, and a
children’s clothing business in J Shed. More are expected to follow.
L Shed and
String Bean Alley traded for the first time on a Thursday this week and reports
were mixed on the day. Although a number of Traders said that Thursday sales looked
better after a very quiet Friday. Management confirmed that it will take some
time for the precinct to become fully populated on Thursdays.
Healthy Working
Environment for Traders – one trader applauds the no smoking ban but asks if management
can now turn their attention to protecting Traders on extremely hot and stuffy
days. We are wondering if the following photo might show a solution.
Perhaps Pete’s
water mister could also be used to put out cigarettes.
Smoking ban –
with customers exempt from the smoking ban until City Council activates a city
wide ban, a Trader asks if buying a cup of coffee from a market outlet makes
him a customer at least for long enough to have a smoke. Traders can be very
creative with their questions.
Paper Carry
Bags 1 - A Trader reports that he has embraced the paper carry bag option from
QVM’s F1 shop because they are cost effective and a lot more convenient than
travelling to his bag wholesaler.
Paper Carry
Bags 2 – another Trader says he personalises the QVM carry bag with his own
colourful tag that attaches to the bag handle and doubles as a business card.
You won’t
believe it, but it is true – a customer returned a pair of ear rings to a
Trader this week asking for a refund because she had only experienced bad luck
since purchasing them. The Trader wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry but in a
tick for customer service excellence, agreed to a refund. The Trader’s
neighbour suggested a more appropriate response might have been “I can see what
you mean by bad luck, because guess what – we don’t give refunds!”
Power outage
– a high truck managed to tangle with overhead tram wires at the Dudley St.
roundabout on Friday and bring down live cables all along Peel St. adjacent to
the market. The tangle of wires caused traffic mayhem. Early reports that
Ronnie had caused the outage by turning on three juicers in his van at once proved
incorrect.
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