A Customer
from Vancouver was excited to experience Melbourne’s famous four seasons in one
day (well a few anyway) this week. He was assured that snow was unlikely.
A Trader
says it was heart-breaking to see tourist buses turn up mid afternoon on the 43
degree Friday when most Traders had left.
It’s all in
the name - a Trader tells us of a Canadian customers who was delighted to
experience Melbourne’s art gallery offering including the Victorian Arts Centre
on Southbank and some smaller near-city galleries. She was looking forward to
checking out the Men’s Gallery in Lonsdale St. until our Trader explained it
may not contain the art she was looking for. (Men’s Gallery is a strip club.)
A Trader
suggested we needed to get the Coronavirus into perspective and pointed out
that there were anywhere between 10,000 and 25,000 deaths from influenza in the
US this past season.
On a similar
vein, a Trader suggested the economic downturn, severe Australian bushfires,
and now the Coronavirus travel restrictions are creating a perfect storm for
retailers.
A Trader says he could handle Thursday and then Friday’s extreme heat but Saturday’s
humidity was just too much.
A different
perspective on String Bean Alley - The view from the top of String Bean Alley
towards the city skyline is one of our most photographed spots in the market
but the combination of some collected water, and a nearby trader’s model boat
created this interesting vision.
That pool of
water is on the verandah of one of the SBA containers. Many of the containers
suffer from weather exposure and the problems for customer movement are
obvious. One of our engineering/architectural advisers (we have many of them
under the sheds) suggested a couple of small holes could be drilled in the
decking to allow water to drain away. Sounds like a reasonable solution.
A trader reports that his two biggest sales on Wednesday night were to young children who were apparently spending their Lunar New Year gift money.
