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Trouble at the mall as landlords and tenants ponder mutually assured destruction

  • Written by Matthew Bailey, Lecturer, Retail History, Macquarie University
Trouble at the mall as landlords and tenants ponder mutually assured destructionA department store employee wheels clothes across Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall on August 5 2020, as retailers prepared to close their doors to customers.Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP

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