Myer Tuggeranong to close

carnardly said :

where was Youngs at Woden? I can’t for the life of me remember.

I know there was one at Curtin and remember their closing down sale – people were going crazy like Myer (boom tish) on boxing day.

I even remember Waltons in Civic – upstairs in Monaro Mall.

🙂

It was in the court down the escalators from Big W, to the left – pretty much around where the Geeky Games store is, all the way towards the back of Rebel sport (that whole area towards the food court too).
Where the Cinemas are now was an old open-air car park, and there was a service road between that car park and the JB youngs etc. That was where you went to pick up bigger goods from Harvey Norman, Youngs or Big W….
After it being Youngs, that area became another area for smaller shops and a Franklins….
The food court was split level and was more of a farmer’s market, with only a couple of food places (the baked spud place being one!). That was before everyone decided that HAD to eat at the mall while shopping, instead of eating beforehand, or when they got home! 🙂

where was Youngs at Woden? I can’t for the life of me remember.

I know there was one at Curtin and remember their closing down sale – people were going crazy like Myer (boom tish) on boxing day.

I even remember Waltons in Civic – upstairs in Monaro Mall. 🙂

RedDogInCan said :

Ronnie said :

I had a chat with a mate when I saw this post and he’s adamant that there was a Grace Bros/ Myer at Woden a long time ago. I certainly can’t recall one being there.
Can anyone confirm? (I haven’t read all the comments so sorry if I’ve missed it already).

Yes, there was a Myer/Grace Bros ar Woden 10+ years ago. It used to be in the corner at the back of the food court (though the food court wasn’t there then).

Not that recently, you are talking two decades or more since Youngs – Grace Bros were in Woden.

The food court was there, when I worked at Callam Offices back in about 1995 I am pretty sure.

Youngs were a good store, I used to go to the one in Garema Place many times back in the mid 80s.

shirty_bear said :

Ronnie said :

He’s not really old school unless he referred to JB Young’s … was subsumed by Grace Bros in the mid-’80s or so. Don’t recall the Woden store making the transition from GB’s to Myer. Can no longer picture it in my mind, either … funny how renovations and roadworks almost immediately erase the former layout from memory (well, my memory anyway).

My memory too. My husband and I were having an argument recently about where the baked potato place was in the old woden food court. This morphed into a discussion about baked potato fillings which in turn led to a delicious sunday dinner.

Ronnie said :

I had a chat with a mate when I saw this post and he’s adamant that there was a Grace Bros/ Myer at Woden a long time ago. I certainly can’t recall one being there.
Can anyone confirm? (I haven’t read all the comments so sorry if I’ve missed it already).

He’s not really old school unless he referred to JB Young’s … was subsumed by Grace Bros in the mid-’80s or so. Don’t recall the Woden store making the transition from GB’s to Myer. Can no longer picture it in my mind, either … funny how renovations and roadworks almost immediately erase the former layout from memory (well, my memory anyway).

Ronnie said :

I had a chat with a mate when I saw this post and he’s adamant that there was a Grace Bros/ Myer at Woden a long time ago. I certainly can’t recall one being there.
Can anyone confirm? (I haven’t read all the comments so sorry if I’ve missed it already).

Yes, there was a Myer/Grace Bros ar Woden 10+ years ago. It used to be in the corner at the back of the food court (though the food court wasn’t there then).

I had a chat with a mate when I saw this post and he’s adamant that there was a Grace Bros/ Myer at Woden a long time ago. I certainly can’t recall one being there.
Can anyone confirm? (I haven’t read all the comments so sorry if I’ve missed it already).

2604 said :

Myer would do better if its strategy was something other than trying to flog house-brand merchandise for name-brand prices.

Worth adding a shout out then to their colleagues over at DJs whose business model can best be surmised as “anyone else+30%”.

There’s heaps of examples, but the one that really sticks in my mind is a Coast brand, pure white linen summer shirt. Same shirt in Myer and DJs, $59 at DJs but only $39 full price at Myer. There’s just something about such a price difference on an item so plain that really highlights it.

creative_canberran said :

I find all the comparisons to Belco a bit amusing, renovations aside many parts of it are dead zones and the place generally is a cramped maze of despair.

+1

Anyone reading this site sometimes would be forgiven for thinking that Belco had suddenly become all cosmopolitan and highbrow because Westfield has added Target, Aldi, and a bit of wood panelling to what was already there.

Myer would do better if its strategy was something other than trying to flog house-brand merchandise for name-brand prices.

As for the complaints about Tuggers looking shabby – really, who cares? It’s a shopping centre FFS, a place that you visit for an hour per week while you buy groceries and the occasional bit of clothing. Anyone despairing about its condition needs to spend less time there.

The Antichrist said :

patrick_keogh said :

Myers at Belco is a dump. Next time you walk through there – take a minute to check out the ceiling – it is a f’n disgrace ! Holes everywhere, dirty old unused fittings, bolts empty speaker holes – you name it, at some point in time in the last 30 years it has been in that ceiling ( any floor they all look the same) – it has been ripped out and it has never been replaced or repaired.

I notice such things too. And then I find myself calculating how old the building/internal fitout is and whether there might be asbestos.

patrick_keogh said :

Even in the Belco store staff numbers are really low. One day I selected the item I wanted and like The_Bulldog I wandered around looking for someone to pay. When I eventually found someone I told her that I’d just about given up and my next strategy was to go over and trigger the anti-theft alarm at the door so that at least security would come. She said not to bother… not only were there only three staff on the floor but the was nobody from security on that shift at all!

No wonder they have problems with theft.

Myers at Belco is a dump. Next time you walk through there – take a minute to check out the ceiling – it is a f’n disgrace ! Holes everywhere, dirty old unused fittings, bolts empty speaker holes – you name it, at some point in time in the last 30 years it has been in that ceiling ( any floor they all look the same) – it has been ripped out and it has never been replaced or repaired.

I am sure if you took a Meyers executive for a stroll through his/her *premium* store in Westfield Belco – they would be mighty embarrassed…………maybe some punters don’t rate ceilings as an important part of a store, but once you see how crappy it looks…….well it might give you something to do while waiting for some counter-monkey to finally drag themselves over to give you some assistance.

creative_canberran said :

There’s also the curious case of the Newsagent swap earlier this year. The newsagent formerly near Woolworths moved out and is now across the road opposite Southlife. A new newsagent moved in where they had moved from. Would love to see what their business plan said that the conclusion they reached was it made more sense to move out and across the road where foot traffic is less than remain in the centre proper.

The Newsagent out on Anketell St is still far better. The one that moved into his old place inside the Hyperdome is very small, and carries very little of what a regular Newsagent wold.

creative_canberran said :

There’s also the curious case of the Newsagent swap earlier this year. The newsagent formerly near Woolworths moved out and is now across the road opposite Southlife. A new newsagent moved in where they had moved from. Would love to see what their business plan said that the conclusion they reached was it made more sense to move out and across the road where foot traffic is less than remain in the centre proper.

My rough understanding is that centre management put the rent up, so the newsagent moved to cheaper premises. Old clientel followed with them. The new newsagent that opened up was not aware they had competition simply moving across the road, and are considering legal action against centre management.

There’s also the curious case of the Newsagent swap earlier this year. The newsagent formerly near Woolworths moved out and is now across the road opposite Southlife. A new newsagent moved in where they had moved from. Would love to see what their business plan said that the conclusion they reached was it made more sense to move out and across the road where foot traffic is less than remain in the centre proper.