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Kids relegated to purgatory at Broadway

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Posted by Leefe on 6 February 2010 – 11:56 pm
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Kids relegated to purgatory at BroadwayIn 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.

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Posted by Leefe on 12 January 2010 – 11:45 pm
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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.

Coles level maths

Queuing for Christmas

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Posted by Leefe on 24 December 2009 – 11:51 pm
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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.

Outside ColesQueuing to serve youselfThe queue before ChristmasThe queue before Christmas

A supermarket aisle to marvel at

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Posted by Leefe on 1 December 2009 – 10:18 pm
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Strange aisle combinationNoticed 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

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Posted by Leefe on 27 November 2009 – 11:29 pm
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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?

Dragged into the window display

Get real taste? Try something else

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Posted by Leefe on 21 November 2009 – 12:01 pm
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Get real taste, try something else Caution writer unloading.

On the back of a Coca Cola delivery truck I walked past the other day was an advertisement for the new Goulburn Valley Dairy Co flavoured milk. ‘Get real taste‘ it proclaimed.

Well, at the beginning of November, due to a shortage of Oak milk at Woolworths, I purchased some of this new flavoured milk.

Not my best decision, but I can put it down as ‘taking one for the the team‘. This brand is not something I would recommend.

Actually it is something I recommend against. The taste was rather bland and dry. And not smooth like Oak. More like compound chocolate.

After talking to a manager at one Woolworths I hear that head office management has decided to delete Oak milk, ie not stock it in Woolworths stores (the 375 ml and 600 ml sizes at least). And I was not the first to complain to this manager.

I speculate that there has been some commercial deal between Woolworths and Coca Cola, where the new Goulburn Valley milk varieties take the shelf space once occupied by Oak flavoured milk. A strange move considering the Oak milk, especially chocolate, always seemed to sell out before other brands.

But I can’t be expected to understand the nuances of this corporate decision making process. I’ll just have to go to Coles for my Oak chocolate milk in future.

Can you have energy without sugar?

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Posted by Leefe on 15 November 2009 – 10:42 pm
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Energy drinks for diabetics?
Or maybe just the weight conscious?

I found that V is offering sugarfree invigoration, an energy drink without the sugar. With that nice shiny silver label.

But what is the point?

Don’t you need sugar for energy?
Or is this just for the caffeine / guarana hit?

Fancy drinking an energy drink without the sugar?
Or would it make you feel ripped off?

Suggar free energy?

Opinion on Automated checkouts

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Posted by Leefe on 13 November 2009 – 11:12 pm
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Coles are installing automated checkouts in their stores. I had the unfortunate experience of being pushed into using one yesterday in World Square.

Checkout the automated onesOk, I only had 1 item to purchase. And there was a person there to ‘help’ people to learn to use the thing.

But really, why press all the buttons for me before I could read what I was supposed to do?

If you really want people to learn how to use your replacement for actual staff, maybe you could give them time to do so?

Sausages gone too quick

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Posted by Leefe on 9 November 2009 – 11:20 pm
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A packet of chicken sausages in Coles Broadway. The extra sticker says ‘Quick sale, Still fresh’, but it looks like the sausages have gone too quick and already shoot their load.

Sausages gone too quick

Where has my Oak chocolate milk gone?

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Posted by Leefe on 3 November 2009 – 11:55 pm
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Am I obsessed with chocolate milk? Maybe, but it contains 2 important elements, milk and chocolate.

The Oak milk has gone missing!Visiting Woolworths at Town Hall, Sydney today I noticed a complete lack of Oak chocolate milk. Actually a complete lack of any Oak flavoured milk.

And not only was it missing from the shelves of the fridge. There was no shelf labels where it was missing. No empty space left for it to fill.

What is the world coming to?

Who is making these mad decisions about stock?

In place of the Oak milk on the shelf is a new brand, Goulburn Valley Dairy Co. So it looks like Coca Cola is moving into the flavoured milk market. Having realised that flavoured milk is a major competitor. It has decided to launch its own brand.

So, in the public interest, I bought a Goulburn Valley Dairy Co Milk Chocolate.

My advice about them is, don’t by one. I’m going to avoid doing so again.

I would say that it tasted a bit like milk, and a bit like chocolate. But in a bland reconstituted sort of way. Much like Goulburn Valley orange juice tastes like orange juice, only dehydrated then reconstituted with other stuff add in to mask the taste.