Story: Department stores and shopping malls

Department-store barbers

Barbers get to work in Milne & Choyce department store, Auckland, in the 1940s. Barbershops were one of a range of services that department stores offered to attract customers.

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Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – The heyday of department stores, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22200/department-store-barbers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Helen Laurenson, published 4 February 2010.