Originally Posted by jan

Just for the record I am not your Luv, if you do have a luv she is a very lucky girl not only does she have someone to carry her shopping but also tells her how many staff are attending on each visit :D (and I thought plane and trainspotting was sad!) You really take the biscuit, to coin a phrase. As for safeway and Coles Coburg, both with around 22 checkouts! Whoopee do! Tesco at Leicester has 48, but who gives a toss! Oh sorry the little man in the orange anorak counting how many staff are working the Deli counter! LOL :D

Originally Posted by MrsDagboy

ABC's wife is probably the main thing that stops him, not his age :D .

Originally Posted by samnrob2

Hi there,

My hubbie and I moved to Brisbane 7 weeks ago. Yes, the supermarkets do look a little old fashioned compared to the U.K but they are really cute!

You can get everything in the supermarket like meat and veg but he only thing you cannot buy is alcohol but you can go to a bottle shop for that.

We have yet to have a problem with our weekly shop (now we are settled our weekly shop is approx $110 per week for two adults).

:)

Originally Posted by robyn01

Can you please tell me whats old fashion in a Aussie supermarket that is attracting the attention from all you poms and what makes a pommy supermarket so trendy????? :confused:

Originally Posted by robyn01

Can you please tell me whats old fashion in a Aussie supermarket that is attracting the attention from all you poms and what makes a pommy supermarket so trendy????? :confused:

Originally Posted by hevs

Aussie supermarket

The aisles are too narrow
The trollies are tiny and rust and heavy and very few "family friendly ones"
The conveyor belts are too small
Theres still sweets on conveyor belt ends
They (except the very new ones) look grimy due to grey shelving and dull lighting
The floors are usually grey plastic floor tiles that again look grimy.

The list is massive, those are just off the top of my head

Originally Posted by brisnick

i'm a bit biased in a negative way, but i think toowoomba looks nice and could have potential. but it's really a bit of a backwards town, with a greater percentage share of weirdos in it's population than most places, highest number of teenage pregnancies in australia (this info from a girl who works at toowoomba hospital, so i can't vouch for it's accuracy). there's very little to do there (it is a small town) although there's a couple of ok restaurants. it's far too far away from the beach (two hours plus) and get's far too cold during winter. it's got a far greater proportion of hoons with big modified ute's than you'd like, as there's nothing else for the kids to do.

otherwise i guess it's ok ;)

ok, so that's my opinion, and it's based on the fact that i begrudge going there usually every week or so (i hate the two hour early morning drive through the rush hour traffic jams and terrible australian drivers back to brisbane to get to work). i've probably made it sound worse than it is, although i do believe most of what i've said. (also according to a resident of woomby, stay east of ruthven st, and north. the rest of it is not nice).

Originally Posted by samnrob2

Hi there,

My hubbie and I moved to Brisbane 7 weeks ago. Yes, the supermarkets do look a little old fashioned compared to the U.K but they are really cute!

You can get everything in the supermarket like meat and veg but he only thing you cannot buy is alcohol but you can go to a bottle shop for that.

We have yet to have a problem with our weekly shop (now we are settled our weekly shop is approx $110 per week for two adults).

:)

Originally Posted by Jessica Rabbit

Hi, So Toowoomba is the best place to be then? :D Thank you for your reply and I appreicate you honesty and opinion (even if it is not what I wanted to here :p ) I have a friend who lives there and loves it but I just hope that it is the right place for me too. I have never been so I am worried that I am not going to like it and that I may have made the wrong decision when it is too late. Is there anything good about Towwomba? Please help :eek:

Originally Posted by hevs

Aussie supermarket

The aisles are too narrow
The trollies are tiny and rust and heavy and very few "family friendly ones"
The conveyor belts are too small
Theres still sweets on conveyor belt ends
They (except the very new ones) look grimy due to grey shelving and dull lighting
The floors are usually grey plastic floor tiles that again look grimy.

The list is massive, those are just off the top of my head

Originally Posted by robyn01

Aisles are to narrow hmmm every supermarket i go to you can get 3 trolleys across, How much room do use need...
We have 2 sizes in trolleys and yes some are no good but most are good i myself have found that to be a problem in the uk to
oh how long do you want the conveyor belts, where i shop its the same as the uk but here we get our items packed for us not like in the uk so that has to make us pretty damn trendy up against the poms.
I remember buying chewing gum at the checkouts in the uk so nah dont throw that one at me
To be honest i was always saying to people when they use to call uk people whinging poms but hey reading this forum on the supermarket issue i know what there on about now I dont want to sound mean but this is crazy also it makes me ask the question WHY DO USE WANT TO LIVE HERE IF IT IS SO BACKWARDS??? America would suit use so much better there up with the times not like backwards Australia. :mad:

Originally Posted by hevs

Aussie supermarket

The aisles are too narrow
The trollies are tiny and rust and heavy and very few "family friendly ones"
The conveyor belts are too small
Theres still sweets on conveyor belt ends
They (except the very new ones) look grimy due to grey shelving and dull lighting
The floors are usually grey plastic floor tiles that again look grimy.

The list is massive, those are just off the top of my head

Originally Posted by robyn01

Aisles are to narrow hmmm every supermarket i go to you can get 3 trolleys across, How much room do use need...
We have 2 sizes in trolleys and yes some are no good but most are good i myself have found that to be a problem in the uk to
oh how long do you want the conveyor belts, where i shop its the same as the uk but here we get our items packed for us not like in the uk so that has to make us pretty damn trendy up against the poms.
I remember buying chewing gum at the checkouts in the uk so nah dont throw that one at me
To be honest i was always saying to people when they use to call uk people whinging poms but hey reading this forum on the supermarket issue i know what there on about now I dont want to sound mean but this is crazy also it makes me ask the question WHY DO USE WANT TO LIVE HERE IF IT IS SO BACKWARDS??? America would suit use so much better there up with the times not like backwards Australia. :mad:

Originally Posted by MrsDagboy

Jessica, just a point to realise, Nick is a young single male with a girlfriend who enjoys his nightlife, so his idea of somewhere good to live wont be the same as someone older with kids :) .