Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008

~Central Market Trading Hours

So I have been speaking to a school friend whose parents own a stall at the Central Markets, and I have been convinced there is no need for extended trading hours at all.
On the issue of Sunday trading, there are too many suburban (and Rundle St!) markets competing for people's limited resources on a Sunday. The poor stall owners also deserve the day of rest, and a proper weekend. If they traded Sundays, they'd have Mondays and Wednesdays free. But that's not a consecutive weekend, that's just two days in a week.
The council (=Anne Moran, the most controversial councillor by far, I discover) also wanted to extend trading hours on Tuesday, to 7 or 8 or so. This was obviously intended to counter Adelaide's well-known problem of not enough night life, a city that closes at 5:30. However, an extension of trading hours does not seem to be the answer. The market generates a fixed revenue each week, and to extend trading hours does not generate more revenue, rather it spreads the revenue over a longer period of time, generating more costs without a balancing increase in revenue.
Ergo, my position on the Central Market is to leave its trading hours alone.
The formula for working out rates for stalls at the markets, and also the council's practice of charging for sandwich boards (charging for balconies, anyone?) will be the subjects of a later post, as they are concerns also raised in my conversation.

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