The sign in Coles proclaimed “Made with 40% choc chips”. But do you really want choc chips in your OJ? And wouldn’t they get stuck in the straw?
Category Archives: Shopping
$3 August at Sushi Train Town Hall
For the month of August Sushi Train at Town Hall is offering all plates for $3.
Go forth and gorge yourselves.
Edit: Just noticed the Sushi Train blog post on the deal here.
Overdose on plastic pink and blue (photo)
An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids’ bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway.
Go organic with plastic at Woolworths
Trying to be green and buy organic?
Or maybe just trying to avoid all the chemicals use in food production?
Doesn’t it seems just a little ironic to find your organic carrots are sealed in plastic?
I suppose it is to keep them separate so they don’t contaminate all the ‘normal‘ carrots.
Painting Broadway
Late at night. When all the shops are closed (save Coles and Kmart). And the customers have all but disappeared. The painting gnomes roll out their hydraulic platforms, and touch up the ceiling.
Kids relegated to purgatory at Broadway
In their infinite wisdom Centre Management at Broadway Shopping Centre have moved the kids area to level 3, next to Priceline. The furthest they can get it away from the shops without leaving the centre?
This is the second time in a year they have move the kids playground.
Is the reason for moving, that stores have complained about the kids area being to close to them? I would think it would be good the surrounding stores. Parents are stuck there for a length of time, with nothing else to look at.
The kids playground was in a convenient location. Easy to visit when you need to let them burn off extra energy. Now you have to drag kids along a series of escalators or wait for space on the one lift that goes to level 3.
I suppose kids don’t make many purchases in the shopping centre. So why not just stick them where they are neither seen nor heard?
It’s more likely that just want the space to put in more shops. Like the reason they moved the customer service desk somewhere not obvious.
When the pricing at Coles doesn’t add up.
This seems to be a problem with this price tags in the Coles flavoured milk section.
If you are paying $6 for 3 Ice Breaks, and the price is $2.95 or $2.89 each, I would hope you save more than $1.44.
Queuing for Christmas
Mad crowds at Coles Broadway on Christmas eve? Outside it didn’t look that bad. Inside there were lots of people, but the isles were not jammed full.
The checkouts at one end were quite full. You can see even the ‘Self-Scan‘ checkouts (they put in to replace the Express ones) have a queue. Although the checkouts down the other end were not as crowded.
Perhaps this might be rectified be having a staff member noticing and better allocating people to checkouts? No, I suppose they were all too worked off their feet to do customer management.
And, although it was very busy, it didn’t feel overly crowded. Possibly after after experiencing Tokyo trains at peek hour other experiences pale in comparison.
A supermarket aisle to marvel at
Noticed this sign at the end of an aisle in Coles at Broadway shopping centre.
Perhaps it is a sign of things you will need together.
ie. if you eat too much canned fish, Mexican and Asian food, you will need a new pair of underwear or a nappy. After which you will only be able to eat baby food for a while.
David Jones window displays are such a drag
Do you ever look at the window displays in department stores in the city?
Standing at the bus stop outside David Jones women’s building I was intrigued by the window display. It just felt a little odd.
Don’t their faces look just a little masculine to you? A little too square jawed?
Now, while I have no problem with equal opportunity. Is there a reason that the window appears to be full of cross-dressing mannequins?
Perhaps it is just that they ran out of women’s heads and had to borrow some from the men’s department. Or that there is a generic unisex head that is used for gender.
Do you know why the mannequin heads look like they do?
