Tony Dimasi

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Tony Dimasi is Head of GapMaps Advisory and has been an independent advisor to the Australian shopping centre industry since 1982. As a micro-economist, Tony’s emphasis in his work during the past four decades has been on the ever-changing needs and wants of the consumer, which philosophically he has always regarded as being the essential underpinning of economic analysis for the retail sector in particular. Tony has worked across all parts of Australia and New Zealand as well as in Asia and the US. He has also appeared regularly as an independent expert in state planning courts and tribunals across all states of Australia as well as federal parliamentary inquiries and ACCC hearings. He is also a regular conference speaker and columnist in retail industry publications.

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CBD Guns: What does the future hold? CBD Guns: What does the future hold?

We’ve been inundated with reports, opinions, commentaries on ‘the demise of CBD retail’. In the main, it’s all in response to the office worker now working from home far more...

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Little Guns: The online challenge Little Guns: The online challenge

Regarding bricks-and-mortar/online sales, will Australia follow the rest of the world, or will it lead? According to Tony Dimasi, Australia’s online sales are far less than in other western, developed...

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Census 2021 what did we learn? Census 2021 what did we learn?

This article was first published in Shopping Centre News – Mini Guns 2022 edition. Premium members can view the full digital issue here. These days, we’re engulfed in data, statistics...

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Big Guns: where to post-COVID? Big Guns: where to post-COVID?

How have Big Guns been affected by COVID? And, more importantly, what does the future hold? COVID has impacted many things and has accelerated changes that were already on the...

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Location is everything Location is everything

It wasn’t long ago that to determine the extent of your centre’s trade area, you studied a thick street directory and held shopper surveys over a period of a couple...

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Australia post-COVID: Population and retail sales outlook Australia post-COVID: Population and retail sales ...

This article by Tony Dimasi, Head of Advisory at GapMaps is featured in the latest issue of SCN magazine – September/October Mini Guns edition. On 28 June 2021, the Australian Department of...

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After COVID-19: The long haul back – Part 3 After COVID-19: The long haul back – Part 3

Mobile device data continues as a powerful and insightful tool to measure the changes in shopper visitation patterns, almost in real-time – it’s fascinating stuff. The following charts show how...

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After COVID-19: The long haul back – Part 2 After COVID-19: The long haul back – Part 2

Some three weeks ago, Tony Dimasi reported on the early results in visitation patterns evident from GapMaps analysis of personal mobility data as Australia’s shopping centres tentatively re-opened following the...

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After COVID-19: The long haul back After COVID-19: The long haul back

Australian shopping centres have at last commenced the long haul back from the gloom of the COVID-19 shutdown. The question now is how long will it take to return to...

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Why the demise of the department store is not bad for shopping centres Why the demise of the department store is not bad ...

Department Stores have been on the way out for some ten years. But why? Tony Dimasi explains; he tells us where they succeed and more importantly, what the future holds…...