Like many others, 87-year-old Janet came to ‘say goodbye’ to the Australian institution that is David Jones

Source: The Guardian Australia · 2026-11-05T07:18:06.000Z · World

As Australia’s oldest department store goes into administration, shoppers mourn its demise amid an uncertain future When Janet Morice thinks of David Jones, she thinks back to postwar Melbourne in 1946, when she would visit the store as a child. “I would put on my best clothes, my mother would put on her hat and gloves, and we would go to afternoon tea at the department store,” she says. Continue reading...

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