{"id":8028,"date":"2020-07-11T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:43:10","slug":"tab-victoria-closes-60-of-shops-in-new-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tab-victoria-closes-60-of-shops-in-new-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"TAB Victoria closes 60% of shops in new lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tabcorp Holdings has shut around 60 per cent of shops in Victoria as the state returns to lockdown due to increased cases in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- With part of the state of Victoria back in lockdown due to a surge in Covid-19 cases in Melbourne, TAB Victoria has closed around 60 per cent of its outlets just two weeks after reopening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 270 shops located in areas not included in the lockdown have been able to stay open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tabcorp said in a statement: \u201cWe are doing our best to support our agency and venue network during this period and to keep our customers informed about the closures and alternative ways to bet with us, including the TAB app and website and telephone betting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new measures in Victoria were introduced for six weeks, and have set back the <strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-melbournes-reopening-put-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reopening of Crown Resorts&#8217; Melbourne casino<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabcorp Holdings has shut around 60 per cent of shops in Victoria as the state returns to lockdown due to increased cases in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Tabcorp Holdings has closed approximately 60% of its retail TAB outlets in Victoria due to renewed COVID-19 lockdowns in Melbourne, just two weeks after reopening. This operational pivot necessitates a greater reliance on digital betting channels, including its app, website, and telephone services, for the six-week duration of the measures. The lockdown also impacts Crown Resorts, delaying the reopening of its Melbourne casino.","focusai_entities":"Tabcorp Holdings, TAB Victoria, Crown Resorts","focusai_location":"Victoria, Melbourne, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Digital Channel Impact","query":"What is the projected GGR\/NGR shift from retail to digital channels for Tabcorp during this six-week lockdown, and what are the implications for their long-term omnichannel strategy?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance","query":"How are regulatory bodies in Victoria adapting their oversight and responsible gambling frameworks to address the accelerated migration of betting activity to online platforms during the lockdown?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[289,13716],"class_list":["post-8028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-australia","tag-tabcorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}