Posts by Russell Brown
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What I find salient in the local context, is that the Wine Vault is bit of a hike from the Chevalier, and in my mind, only compounds the AkCityCouncil's estimate of over 90% retail flight from a community of comparitive affluence to neighbouring suburbs.
Oh lordy, what could happen in the Chev in a retail sense .... if only.
I've almost given up thinking about it now, but try this: a Saturday morning market in the shopping centre car park. The westernmost inner-city suburb presents the best of the West's food and drink and art and craft. It'd be like Nelson, only with cheaper restaurants.
Parking? Loads of it, unused, behind the shops on the south side of the road.
But yeah, at the moment, not so much. The deli in the arcade is well worthy of support, as is the Mud Pie Cafe. Organic Planet has gone off the pace a bit -- I got annoyed at buying out-of-date goods.
But Westmere's only just over the border, and I've cycled to Grey Lynn on shopping trips. It'd all easily fit inside single suburbs in several main centres.
It's not so much suburban as neighbourhood retail flight.
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I would not be surprised if supermarkets pricing is specifically predatory towards small green-grocers, butchers and bottle shops but generally these small owner operator type business’s go to the wall when the supermarkets set up in their area. This in turn is bad news for small market gardeners, growers and other small scale suppliers.
In Grey Lynn, it's quite impressive that Fruit World can survive across the road from a big Woolworths. I suspect it might even have an influence on local Woolworth's pricing sometimes. But I have found farmer-direct market produce a revelation this year, on both price and quality.
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to RB himself i apologise for hastily & clumsily written sentence regarding the very-much flogged dead horse of Darwin's theory, but i will re-word that in an imminent post
One with carriage returns and conventional sentence case? That'd be cool.
Apology not necessary, but always nice.
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Wrong. But try again.
I'm not really looking to pursue the point, but Sacha corrrectly deduced my meaning.
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Meanwhile, now that Salient has called off the lawyers (all a terrible mistake, I have been assured), it's okay to enjoy editor Jackson Wood's role in the by-election:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jackson James Wood Challenges Other Candidates
Mt. Albert’s favourite second cousin and arguably front running candidate Jackson James Wood today challenged the other aspirants to a duel at dawn atop the mighty heights of Mount Albert itself
“Too long have mainstream journalists ignored my presence in this race—in fact, the NZPA went so far as to deny I even existed. They have forced me to begrudgingly realise I must go beyond Wikipedia and Facebook to stamp my mark on New Zealand politics. As such, I will be atop Mount Albert at ten am—dawn Brisbane time—on the sixth of June, armed with a slingshot, ready to take all comers.
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Whilst I tend to regard knee-jerk reactions to communications expenditure with suspicions, I'm a bit staggered by the $553,000 spent by the government in a month on super-city publicity.
These things don't come for free, but that's a hell of a lot of money to be thrown at publicising proposals made in haste and likely to change considerably.
Good score for Labour's new Auckland-issues man Phil Twyford, though.
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Thank y'all, but I'm more mystified than anything by pfj.
At any rate, I would rather strongly debate that religion enjoys "exceedingly complex relations to the theory of biological evolution in its now myriad forms" if that is meant to say that religion explains biology. It doesn't.
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Not wanting to gloat, but in Welliington the excellent Moore Wilsons has a wondrous range of good things (yes, even cat food) at supermarket prices. And it's owned and operated by a local family. And they support local producers such as those from up the Kapiti Coast and the Wairarapa
I'm an Aucklander with a Moore Wilson wholesale card, and I'd dearly love that company to open a branch here. The fact that they have that Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa produce is a real strength, I think. And so many bakeries! There's nowhere in Auckland you have that choice. Nosh in Ponsonby is okay, but it's not the same.
OTOH, I can get meat and smallgoods cheaper (and generally better) at the Westmere butcher or Taste of Europe in Lincoln Rd, and fresher and cheaper veges at the La Cigale market (single supplier, very short supply chain). It's just not terribly efficient ...
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Because they're humans, Mark, not just market actors. People get embarrassed irrationally. Sheesh.
Yes. The situation amused me, and I went home and wrote a blog post on the strength of it.
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I shouldn't think Wine Vault guy necessarily expects all your purchases to be through him.
Oh, of course not. It was just a funny situation.
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