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Plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery, plates and bowls and expanded polystyrene (foam) cups and containers will all be banned this year from September 1, under new state government legislation.
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As construction is well underway behind the walls at the former H&M site at Stockland Rockhampton to make way for TK Maxx, recruitment for staff has also begun.
Job advertisements went live online recently for retail managers at the new Rockhampton store.
TJX Companies is a discount retailer of apparel and homewares in America and worldwide with more than 4400 stores in nine countries.
The Rockhampton TK Maxx store departments will include womenswear, women’s intimates, gifts and homeware, kidswear, luggage, men’s basics, menswear, shoes, toys and women’s accessories.
The closest TK Maxx stores to Rockhampton are in Townsville and Brisbane.
“Hopefully they turn into new customers for our shop in William Street.”
The 2021 event was Kate’s second Beef, hosting her first stall in 2018 when the business was only online.
She has stepped up and grown since the previous event, increasing from a 6x6 site to a 10x12 site this year.
Prior to the event, she placed the biggest order of jeans she ever had.
“It was a big investment but I had confidence in knowing the event was going really good,” Kate said.
“We had been to the Nutrien Classic Horse Sale in Tamworth earlier in the year and it was really good.
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A new homewares store has opened in Rockhampton’s East Street.
Reid and Rose has this week opened at 131 East Street, which was formerly tenanted by Bullzye.
It will be the third store for the locally owned brand, which already has a gift store in Allenstown, as well as The Lucky Charm news and gift outlet in Allenstown.
The East Street store stocks fashion, home and gifts from a range of brands including Spode, Portmeriom, Sophie Conram, Nashi Home Resinware, Robert Gordon, Voluspa, La La Land, Koko Black, Poppy Lane and Willow Tree.
It also stocks a range of magazines, newspapers, stationery and cards.