I Love South Melbourne’s Safeway

It is timely for us to say goodbye to our weekly shopping at Safeway @ QV. We have been shopping at QV since they opened their doors, even before the builders finished their job back in 2003. We love looking around Big W before popping over to Safeway for our groceries. The service at the award winning supermarket has been very good most of the time.

There is now a new Safeway in South Melbourne. It is a bigger store with wider aisles. Above the supermarket is another store that I love visiting, Spotlight. Across from the roundabout outside is the old South Melbourne Market. The strategic location of a variety of stores comes in handy depending on what I am hunting for at the time. We have already shopped at the new Safeway supermarket a few times. Despite minor hiccoughs at the checkouts due to less experienced checkout chicks (a couple of times only); this shop has won us over because it is much less crowded.

From our apartment, the walking distance to Safeway @ QV is roughly the same as the walking distance to South Melbourne’s Safeway. Getting to South Melbourne on foot may involve crossing the mighty busy Kings Way at the lights, but that beats jostling the crowds on the way to Safeway @ QV and then jostling with more people inside the supermarket. Safeway @ QV is like a permanent expo for products Australians use in their daily lives. It is not uncommon to find 5 or more people in a group studying and discussing a pack of Tim Tam or 6 people filing in to buy a litre of milk. What we find most amusing is when people can’t help but study not so discreetly the contents in our trolleys. I am not kidding. That really has happened at least 4 times! We recently enjoyed some relative peace at QV for nearly two months around Christmas time. This is an annual phenomenon. (I know why but do you?) The final straw came in the second week of February. We have had enough jostling with so many people. We need a break and luckily we have another Safeway nearby. We will definitely shop more at South Melbourne’s Safeway. It is just less stressful. Shopping shouldn’t be so stressful.