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I tried but failed to add a photo here, from our local shopping centre. It depicts a kebab stall housed on a trailer with power cords and water supplies run, legally, from an external supply. Next to it is a brightly refurbished real estate agency. The kebabs used to be in that building but the business climate failure meant they shifted to more tenuous, less expensive premises. There’s several empty retail outlets in the shopping area. The recycled clothing shops occupy 3 spaces at last count. Yup, I know, there’s long been a “glut” of retail premises. And yes, there’s another large real estate agency along the street, looking equally as fabulous as the first. Next to it another shop being refurbished after a long standing restaurant closed its doors a few months back. Sumner is a beachside village on the edge of Ōtautahi, luxury apartments are not in short supply, the coffee shops and eateries come and go and go. For the first time in the 20 years I’ve been here the two local fushinchups places closed for several weeks this winter. The real estate business seems to be in danger of the bits tagged on to it falling off? The data on the graphs for political donations to the Coalition of Chaos indicates retailer support them? I suppose the aspiring real estate agents in the two flash outfits we have in our shopping centre bring sandwiches from home?

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