Greg Bruce is an award-winning senior multimedia journalist for the Herald, writing features, profiles, reviews and essays across a range of subjects. He was born and raised in Auckland, where he still lives. OPINION In the battle for dominance amid the fast-changing shopping landscape, one Auckland mall is a clear winner, but there are some surprising losers.
The shopping mall is capitalism’s greatest achievement; a sign of what can be achieved when property moguls and retail empires push each other to ever greater heights in the quest to extract as much of our money as possible. That malls have formed the fulcrum of our shopping experience for more than half a century and continue to do so even in the face of the existential threat of Temu is not because they are still the most efficient place to buy things, but because we will always like going to nice places and doing stuff while surrounded by other people..