TROUBLE IN STORE IF SHOPPERS DON’T FEEL SAFE

BILLIONAIRE retailer Solomon Lew has warned that consumers will stop visiting the nation’s leading shopping malls unless there is certainty around vaccinations and temperature checks.

The businessman, whose Premier Investments owns a portfolio of retail chains such as Smiggle, Portmans and Just Jeans, warned shopping malls that they needed to listen to their retail tenants.

Mr Lew said shopping centre owners had an “absolute responsibility” to ensure the safety of shoppers and store staff, and this would require health checks at the doors and a requirement that anyone entering be vaccinated.

“I’m not sure if I would go