A Trader
sent us this photo taken after closing at the Night Market where clearly
patrons have difficulty finding places to leave their food rubbish. The trader
reckons if you stand still long enough you may end up becoming a target as
well. The crowd on Wednesday night was certainly huge.
On a similar
vein, we had a couple of complaints about congestion on Wednesday Night which
may need some tweaking with crowd control, but certainly is a very nice problem
to have.
A Trader
says he listens intently to what his customers are asking for and attempts to
meet their requests. With trends changing so quickly he reckons his customers
will give him new pathways before he reads about them in trade magazines.
We’ve
written elsewhere about Trader, David Kiper, and here he turns up again in a
promotion sighted on one of our freeway overpasses.
Christmas at
the market in July was featured on a Channel 10 morning show during the week
including an on-air interview with Marketing Manager, Meg Dalla Lana, at
Melbourne’s best Christmas shop, which is located within our market down on
Elizabeth St.
A Trader
asks if it is OK to growl at children who are mistreating stock in full view of
their parents.
Traders are
starting to move into L Shed in front of the newly decorated container shops.
A Trader was
getting a lift home after a vehicle breakdown and the tow truck driver asked
him if the Queen Victoria Market had re-opened yet. It seems that customer
perception is difficult to shake following the untidy renewal debate a couple
of years back.
And a little
note about readership on Victraders – generally this Heard Under The Sheds article
wins the readership poll every week but last week two other articles were more
widely read – the report on the Lord Mayor’s Small Business Awards and the
article about curating the gaps in the Upper Market.
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