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Booragoon aka Garden City (think that’s the name)? Wow i was in Perth 2004 to about 2011 and that was a nicer centre to go to than Cockburn which back when I lived there only had the bit going to the Commonwealth Bank at the new entrance (no discount department store), Booragoon had Myer and David Jones or one of them I remember.
On a different topic, not in NZ but tried their site and get this , it’s what 8.55am NZ time and the site can’t cope …
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A countdown for countdown. Nice.
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Gateways got its first expansion during that time frame (2008) so that made it much better to go to than before the expansion. It got a second expansion in 2014 though the most recent expansion I don’t really care much for they didn’t really add a whole lot outside of a Target (now a K-Mart)
Garden City has both David Jones and Myer
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Yes I lived in the Success area and there was an expansion in 2007 or 8 and they added a new Woolworths and Big W and JB Hifi went in. My mum used to like to go to Garden City because it had more shops back then than at Cockburn Gateway.
I remember they had a Youth Centre across the road from The Gate Bar and Bistro in that area which was strange .
It’s still there. There is a massive Medical Center at the complex just next to the BP. Centrelink moved from its Spearwood office to there and the Library that used to be in Gateways also moved there so its much bigger than when it was in the Gateways complex.
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Sounds painful
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The ck is silent LOL … guess most people call it Gateways.
Yeah there’s an Italian restaurant there near that youth centre/medical centre. Really nice food to. Nocello’s I think it is called.
How do supermarket and departmental stores market their products at massive discounts compared to others? Is there a difference in the quality of the same product in different stores? In Australia, many stores like; Myer, Kmart, Catch, Aldi, etc., provide tons of offers every day. Also, many third-party sites are offering coupons like Retailmenot, Nine, Rakuten. Are they worth using and authentic?
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Here’s a story today talking about NZ grocery prices
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New Zealand’s government will consider breaking up its supermarket duopoly to secure more affordable food prices for shoppers, after a new report that found the grocers were making huge profits and charging some of the highest prices in the OECD. (Source: TheGuardian)
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I was driving on my way to get the second Pfizer vaccine this morning, and noticed that the Caltex service station on Springvale Road, Glen Waverley, opposite the shopping precinct, has now been rebranded as an Ampol, with Star Mart becoming The Foodery.
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I think they are all being re-branded to AMPOL, There is one in Beeliar Drive in WA that had been a Caltex since it opened in 2018 but recently became an AMPOL within the last 6 weeks or so. Oddly it always had a Foodery as opposed to Star-Mart.
This was a hot topic last year. A bit confusing because Caltex stations will change to Ampol, but Caltex/Woolworths stations (owner separately by EuroGarages) will not.
They’ll be (and are being) branded as EG/EuroGarages.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I was mistaken. My lack of understanding regarding this is partly because (at the present time) in my area all the Caltex/Woolworths stations are still branded as Caltex.
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It’d be confusing in areas that have Puma, once those rebrand to Caltex.
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I assume EG is hesitant to re-badge it’s fuel products to Ampol considering they’re taking them to court over misleading conduct. They have a little bit longer (31st Dec 2022) than Ampol to cease use of the brand.
You’d assume that if they win the case they’ll try and strike a deal with Chevron to maintain Caltex fuel branding at EG sites.
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I don’t understand Chevron’s (Edit: EG’s) issue here. Isn’t Ampol just as well a known brand in Australia as Caltex is? Or if it isn’t at the moment, with the rapid re-badging, it will be soon.
I feel like BP is known as the quality petrol brand over the rest anyway. The Coles/Woolies co-branding has really cheapened the Shell and Caltex brands IMO. The new EG/Caltex/Woolies branded locations do look great though.
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Chevron had a deal with Ampol that ended. Ampol is now rebranding back.
EG (when owned by Woolies) had a separate agreement that also ended.
Chevron then partnered up with Puma.
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