Up until the last time I looked, 226-256 Lambton Quay was a big Borders store.
Lambton Quay is one of Wellington's premier shopping streets, so its situation, opposite iconic department store Kirkaldie & Stains, and cheek-by-jowl (almost) with a Farmers Department store, was enviable.
The only fly in the ointment, I guess, is that the Wellington flagship store of the Whitcoulls book chain was just a short gallop down the street.
As we all know, both chains were bought by David and Anne Norman. I wondered what would happen to this particular Borders, and was assured by a polite young man at the checkout counter that it was going to become Whitcoulls.
And, he has been proved right. As I passed in the bus yesterday, the store was sporting natty new signs and lots of enticing advertising.
It is now definitely a Whitcoulls store. So far, the Whitcoulls store down the street is still intact and running. Long may it stay that way.
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