Grocery Shopping Part II

I managed to get myself down to Sylvia Park today to check out the new shopping centre and supermarkets.

The Warehouse Extra is not as skanky as I had envisaged based on my previous Warehouse history. Still, I have no desire whatsoever to shop there. I can't see any reason why I would go there when I could go to the beautiful big Foodtown instead.

Ahhhh, the Foodtown. Not because it's wildly different and spectacularly better than all the other Foodtowns in Auckland, but because it was empty. I dunno whether it was the time of day (3pm on a Thursday), or the fact that not many people have caught on yet, or both, but it was almost deserted. I had the aisles to myself, nothing was out of stock, and there were absolutely no queues at the checkout. I could actually enjoy grocery shopping if it was always like this.

As for the rest of the shopping centre, well, it's a shopping centre. It's like St Lukes without the movie theatres and is much less efficient. St Lukes is relatively compact by virtue of being two-storied and boxlike. Sylvia Park just sprawls.

It pretty much has the same lineup of shops you find in the CBD or in other large shopping centres. I imagine I might go there reasonably often because it is the closest shopping centre, but I see no reason why people would bypass any other centre to go to Sylvia Park.