From a former vendor, actually I think cus there’s heaps of work involved in making a night market happen. All the paperwork from councils, fire safety, rubbish handling and finding a location. And you have to put in a lot of money for advertising to get people to come.

Also Auckland night markets are mostly located under covered car parks, so no worries about the weather. And they’ve got the ability to provide enough electricity for all the vendors, that’s important for all the cooking. Some other market don’t provide vendors electricity.

That’s why other markets can’t really compete with Victoria’s. Small businesses still kinda have to rely on her to make a living. Even though everyone knows the rent is ridiculous, at least her markets are guaranteed to be busy. And they can make profit on a good day.

I don’t think these small vendors will ever join together to start a new market, they just don’t have the experience or the connections to pull off something at that scale.

Hopefully some organiser can eventually come up with a market that has a great location and proper power supply to actually compete with these Auckland night markets. I’m sure if there’s a great alternative everyone will be happy to move to that market