One-stop shop: The bar and trading post down under

Visitors to the General Store & Co can stop by for a drink, a haircut at the in-house barber or to pick up a book or two. The establishment is open until 3:00am, barber included, and then opens the next morning and sells coffee to the early birds as they browse through clothing and canned goods imported from all over the world.

The interior reflects this hodge-podge ideal, and features a mix of petrol pumps and shipping crates and – the pièce de resistance – an imported wall of American PO Boxes that look like they have come straight from the Wild West.

Specialist stores are increasingly making way for one-stop shops. For more on this mish-mash retail, see our Convergence Retail market report.