Society & Culture Shopping Centres

[Xtreme]

(y)Eastland is the best. Laugh a minute in that place.

Agree, i don't go down that way very often but when i do it's always an eye opener, as is Knox City. Someone attempted to roll me for my shoes - not in Eastland as such, but outside of it, early 2010.

Girls should be careful at Eastland. They may become pregnant as soon as they touch the hand rail on the escalator.

Which hand rail....... i've touched it a few times

I finished my christmas shopping at the end of November, so i won't be fighting the crowds this year .

I am usually an early shopper, get there at 9am or just before..... still doesn't help sometimes. But i'll usually be able to get in and out with minimal fuss.

Over the last few saturday's i've actually trekked to the shops way before 9am (talking 7:50am to just before 8:30am), although it's only for a Safeway or Coles run..... but it's great having the freedom to roam around and not have to fight for space in the isles.

 

[LouisCK]

Agree, i don't go down that way very often but when i do it's always an eye opener, as is Knox City. Someone attempted to roll me for my shoes - not in Eastland as such, but outside of it, early 2010.

Haha that happened to my mate at Eastland too. It was hilarious.

Random Ringwood station gangster walks up to him and says "Nice nikes, kick 'em off" and my mate says "Yeah look mate I don't want no trouble, you can take them, just take 'em" and the idiot bends down to take them off - copped a massive kick to the temple for his trouble.

 

[Cruyff14]

Highpoint does the job.

 

[Eastdog]

Went to Chadstone today and as expected very busy but we somehow found a carpark. Next time if we go we might not be so lucky. Im sure it would be much the same at Highpoint and Doncaster. December is the busiest time for the shopping centres. In January things die down as people go off on holiday.

 

[MisterB]

Haha that happened to my mate at Eastland too. It was hilarious.

Random Ringwood station gangster walks up to him and says "Nice nikes, kick 'em off" and my mate says "Yeah look mate I don't want no trouble, you can take them, just take 'em" and the idiot bends down to take them off - copped a massive kick to the temple for his trouble.

I would pay good money to witness such acts.

 

[morri]

I tend to either go into the city= not shopping centre but shopping streets) or I go into the local ones. Prefer the centre of town though as the local shopping centre hasn't got many shops .

 

[Kcrack]

Same, I just browse the city during the day on my lunch break if I want anything. Otherwise I'll go to Northlands early on the weekend.

 

[Brad Goodman]

I can walk to Knox so that is usually the centre of choice when I need to go to one. Love love love not having to get a park.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

23rd of December. Get to Chadstone around 11pm. FFS

I DARE YOU!

 

[Dont be a lemon]

I quite dislike large shopping centres. Deliberately loud and echoing, full of slow walking people and ****ing stands clogging the walkways in the middle

Highpoint used to be my 'local' and it quickly became irritating, so much so that I started going to another supermarket even though it was further away.

Do watch this:

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[theboxmike]

Eastland

Can't stand Shopping town due to parking.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Shopping centers here in G town suck big dity dogs b@lls.
had a argument with some nobjocky trying to steal my park @ ponds today.l was waiting for a car to leave with my blinker on this jocky though he could just drive in grr,l got my park find another one f off.

 

[TheSituation23]

flip it up between eastland and doncaster.
both have there +/- eastland is good for the laughs as said before and is just full of meth heads. donny is full of zoob w***ers in there g-starr get up

 

[Dukes Of Hurley]

Doncaster is right around the corner from me, so im there a lot. Friday afternoons when all the muzzrats come in, kill me now. But other than that, it's pretty good i rekon!

I'm going to chaddy on the weekend to do some christmas shopping with one of my mates who lives in wheelers hill, so thats kind of like a median for us. I need to buy a friend a charm from pandora, does anyone know if there is a pandora store in chaddy?

 

[Igloo]

Shopping centers here in G town suck big dity dogs b@lls.
had a argument with some nobjocky trying to steal my park @ ponds today.l was waiting for a car to leave with my blinker on this jocky though he could just drive in grr,l got my park find another one f off.

Waurn Ponds is the worst carpark in the world. I never go there anymore, just so horrible to get in there.

Westfield and Market Square are usually easy enough to get in and out of, and have a lot more shops, so I just alternate between the two.

 

[lemon chicken]

Thread reminded me of this song.

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[brucetiki]

I live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. For food shopping, I actually travel 20 minutes to Fairview Green. Nothing but a Foodland and a couple of gourmet places but it's one of the best supermarkets in the state. Everything is fresh, parking is easy (has that park assist thing with the coloured lights in the undercover carpark), and the quality of the groceries is far superior to Woolies/Coles.

Have a fair bit of choice of other shopping centres here as well.

Parabanks - a hole. Nothing's been done there for about 20 years. Only go there if I need to get something quick out of Big W

Hollywood Plaza - Adelaide's answer to People of Walmart. Only go there if I've forgotten something in my food shopping. Absolute hole of a place, though the walk of fame throughout the mall is something different. Classic moment there last year when some old bag abused me because I didn't return my trolley to a trolley bay!

Elizabeth Shopping Centre - fantastic variety (though no Kmart, which is surprising for that part of the world), being Elizabeth though the clientele is quite low-brow. Can get some great bargains in Myer as not many of the locals can afford to shop there.

Tea Tree Plaza - It's a Westfield so has everything. Part of the mall was carpeted a few years ago (seemed like a good idea at the time ). Parking can be a nightmare at peak times, and they plan to introduce paid parking there (ala what they did at Chermside in Brisbane). Like Elizabeth, great to go for a browse.

Munno Para Shopping City - they class Cheap as Chips as an anchor tenant - need I say any more...

 

[Normy132]

Doncaster's only 20 minutes away so that's my centre of choice. I do all my shopping online but I enjoy killing a couple of hours browsing at Doncaster.

 

[Eastdog]

Did anyone do the all nighter. Ive never done it before. In Melbourne I think Chadstone and Highpoint were the 2 major shopping centres open all night.

 

[brucetiki]

Marion was the only centre that did the all nighter here, though most majors stayed open until midnight a few nights this week.

 

[Cruyff14]

Did anyone do the all nighter. Ive never done it before. In Melbourne I think Chadstone and Highpoint were the 2 major shopping centres open all night.

Did it a few years ago. Left home about 12/12.30 with some mates and we went to Highpoint at that hour purely because we could. None of us needed anything, we just wanted to see what it would be like to be at a shopping centre at like 1am.

Think we left at about 3 from memory.

 

[Lemma]

Once had to work at Chaddy overnight

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Went to Northland Shopping Centre yesterday. What a ****ing pain in the ass. Always a screaming kid in the distance, omnipresent pop music (when did this start?), crappy stands in every walkway flogging shit you don't want. Reminded me why I avoid the big shopping centres. Apparently retail isn't doing too well. Can't say I'll shed a tear if these brick and mortar equivalents of Seven's primetime programming die.

 

[Shell]

A simple yet really effective way to avoid all the hassles is to go as early as possible if you're going to a major shopping centre. Obviously a lot easier if you have the time but rocking up bright and early will mean getting an easier car park, more room to wander around, less queues at checkouts, retail staff in better moods, you're in a better mood, and you could even reward yourself with a coffee at the end.

I hope you 40yo mums take this advice.

Old post but this.

Especially the major ones like Highpoint. The traffic around there can be particularly horrendous. But if you are there about 8.30/9am you are sweet.

Having said that I havent been to HP in god knows how long, the place can get ****ed.

 

[BotsMaster]

23rd of December. Get to Chadstone around 11pm. FFS

I DARE YOU!

Sounds like a challenge