Prolapsed anus economy engulfs Eat Street

Thursday 5 September 2019

Chapel St restaurants and the Stonnington Council are shunning delivery service apps like Uber Eats and Deliveroo to save businesses on the famous once-bustling strip from closing because of crippling costs and health risks.

A push to fight the scourge of delivery apps from local eateries is being spearheaded by the Chapel St Precinct Association in a bold world-first campaign to try and combat the closure of small businesses as trade along the famous retail strip continues to slump.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.