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Business reporter David Chau is on the ground in Sydney, which is obviously super locked-down at the moment. He reports: 

Only shops selling "essential" goods are allowed to be open during the Greater Sydney lockdown.

But in the CBD yesterday, that definition was being stretched to include designer handbags, luxury watches, $10,000 dresses, trendy sneakers, plush toys, cosmetics, fancy stationery and the latest video games.

Among the shops still open for business were Bally, Cotton On, Dr Martens, EB Games, General Pants Co, Gucci, H&M, Hype DC, JB Hi-Fi, JD, Louis Vuitton, Optus, Panerai, Platypus, Skechers, Supre, Typo and Vans (to name a few).

One shopkeeper at a gift store told me that only three customers had visited the store for the whole day. This employee said their store "shouldn't even be trading during a lockdown", but head office insisted on staying open (knowing full well it was burning cash – with no customers and plenty of wages and bills to pay).

Last Friday, the NSW government imposed a rule which says "browsing in shops is prohibited". But in reality, there was plenty of browsing going on and it seems this rule is selectively enforced.

This group of police officers (pictured above) walked past a Hype DC shoe store where customers were trying on sneakers to find the right size (arguably an act of "browsing").

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