PHOTO: Dominion Road. Photo credit: Newshub.
One of Auckland’s famous shopping strips is showing the signs of stress with sale and for lease signs filling many shop windows.
The normally vibrant, bustling stretch of Dominion Road is lined with hundreds of cheap and cheerful businesses.
But the owners say they are losing thousands of dollars a week under lockdown and many won’t reopen.
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“I don’t think a lot of them will bother,” said Colin Wigg, owner of Col’s Cobble Shoppe. “I don’t think the turnover for them and myself will be there for at least till Christmas.”
For 45 years Mr Wigg has worked here fixing boots, bags and belts.
He’s enjoying the enforced time away from his sole trader business that is tucked between van and truck hire company Metropolitan Rentals and a couple of empty shops with for lease signs.
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