Ghost town: Illawarra retailers shut as shoppers heed advice to stay home

Kate McIlwain
Updated March 28 2020 - 3:31pm, first published 3:10pm
Wollongong Central on Saturday. Pictures: Robert Peet.
Wollongong Central on Saturday. Pictures: Robert Peet.

Shopping centres across the Illawarra may still be open, but it's becoming less and less enticing for shoppers to visit as more retailers voluntarily close their doors.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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