Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: All those recent political polls, recapped. The most memorable local television moments of 2024, remembered. A gift guide for people who really don’t want to buy things.
“In order to answer the question: which Dunedin mall is the best mall, you must first answer the question: how many malls does Dunedin have? This question is not as simple as you might think. For all intents and purposes, Wall Street Mall, Meridian Mall and The Golden Centre are the same mall. They each have their own webpages. They are presumably owned by different private investment companies. But as a pedestrian, they’re more or less indistinguishable. As soon as you enter the behemoth that is The Dunedin Mall(s?), boundaries cease to exist, like one of those politically nebulous administrative regions on the edge of some contested territory. The moment I stepped over the jurisdictional boundary that separated Sushi Express from Michael Hill Jeweller, I longed to feel some infinitesimal shift, some tremor in the mall’s ambience that would show me I had reached a new plane of shopping consciousness. But there was nothing but the cold, roving eye of the surveillance cameras overhead.”
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Your style of shopping: Dunedin's mall(s), ranked
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