Convenience Store

The local Milk Bar, good for last minute items or if you cannot be bothered with the extra 500m to Woolies.
I’ve been in here a few times and just really shocked by the pricing in here. My housemate had fallen ill and needed some Soda Water, so instead of venturing a few more minutes down the road to Woolworths, i stopped in here and my god i left just as soon as i entered.
I looked in the fridge and saw that a 2L Soda Water was around $ 4. This is something that the local Woolies stocks for 80c — $ 1. I understand that this small independent business is something of a dying sort but i’m not comfortable paying twice or three times as much for something i can get a few hundred meters down the road.

The name of this place suggests that this small family-​run store, which has been here for over 30 years or more, is an in fact a convenience store. Phooey! I totally disagree with that and therefore refer to it as a milkbar, because that’s exactly what it is. After all, milkbars are a dying rapidly and only a few now remain, like this one, and I’ll be damned if I start referring to it as a convenience store.
I don’t know how many times I’d be on my way to work and completely forget to bring some change for the ticket machine on the tram. And, like a mirage in the desert, this little milkbar would come to my aid. It also looks after me on all those days when nothing can take away your troubles like an impulse buy of ice cream or chocolate on the way home.
The prices can be a little higher than other places but for the people situated around this milkbar, and forgetful little me, the convince it provides more than outweighs the extra few dollars. Plus I quite enjoy the friendless and familiarity you get from regularly coming to a small place like this which you’d never get from a supermarket no matter times you go there or how much you spend. I applaud these guys for keeping the legacy of suburban milkbars alive.