Not surprising, the owner has/had the second largest private art collection in Australia, re-keyed his entire home/gallery while sitting right next to a Nolan landscape.
(BTW, he's Jewish)
My wife actually worked there from when they moved from Bentleigh to Morabbin. She worked as the manager on the fabrics department for about six years. She left because the store manager who took over from the previous manager who was a man and was a great manager, was awful and had no understanding of how all the different departments worked, had no people skills and was only interested in cutting people’s hours down regardless of their experience just so she could employ younger staff because they were cheaper.
It wasn’t long after this new manager started that my wife uncovered some rorts and dishonest practices going on and actually discovered two young female staff were stealing hundreds of dollars worth of goods (who knows maybe lots more) she immediately informed their head security guy directly as they had been instructed, because the manager was off work this particular day.
Consequently the girls were given their marching orders and got off lightly as the company didn’t prosecute, very lucky really because one of them was actually training to be a lawyer would you believe.
The upshot was the manager was not happy with my wife reporting them directly to security, saying my wife should have called her first. My wife knew why she didn’t want it to go through the proper process, because the manager knew these two young girls and was apparently friends with their parents.
It begged the question at the time when my wife caught these two about to load two trolleys full of goods into the boot of a car around the back at the loading bay, “who was driving the car, another friend or relative?”
Apparently when marched from the store, the language out of the trainee lawyer was choice as she called the head of security all the ‘f’ and ‘c’s going! So there’s that.
Needless to say, as my wife watched how the quality and knowledge of staff deteriorated and how Spotlight stores became more like 2$ shops, she moved on.