Games Chain Chatswood is a locally owned games store that has provided specialist products to customers all over Sydney for years, and has a long list of loyal customers and employees. If the liquor license application is approved, Games chain will be forced to close in June 2015 in favor of a liquorland store, and will have to relocate at its own expense. This is due to the decisions and leasing terms of Westfield Chatswood, and they have within their power the ability to make us leave for a more favourable contract with Coles. If the application is rejected, however, they will be unable to open a Liquorland in our place.

The displacement will likely be incredibly damaging to both the company and its employees, and could possibly lead to the closure of yet another independent games store in Sydney. There are already enough liquor stores in the Chatswood area, and another one simply means that the games store that children and adults alike have come to love will be closed. Located where we are, the first thing that anyone will see upon coming into the centre from the nearby entrance will be bottles of liquor rather than jigsaw puzzles, and the atmosphere of that part of the centre will be changed completely.

We ask you to support the local businesses that support the community rather than those that wish to push us out for their convenience.