Gerry64 - a thread for you ;)

Hi there, just reading where you're enquiring what makes a crappy supermarket.
To me, they're all much of a muchness, but smaller ones do seem yuckier (any brand). 4 Squares always seem pokey and thereby last resort.

Anyway, the one supermarket I've found that I enjoy going into, is New World Hastings. My husband did not understand my fascination with the place (it's just a supermarket), but sort of does now he's been there.

They have the deli with bottles of oils & stuff (who knows, it looks pretty, but you can't actually see what they contain) behind the cabinet, it's a spacious area. The cabinet food looks appetising, the bakery and deli have stuff you can just take home (home-made looking pies, pizza, salad, sandwiches, rolls). The deli also has a range of individual chocolates (possibly from the local chocolate factory). It is a spacious store and well set out.

Most items have an electronic tag to say what price they are (on the shelf, not individually), it also has the self-checkouts (first ones I'd seen).

The rolls are expensive (wouldn't bother again, but they look really good, but I didn't find them worth the extra coin).

Funny, I don't bother going to other supermarkets when we're down there, but do need to find somewhere else to buy lunches.

#1, doyou mean in Hastings, or Napier.??
there are a lot of cafes, that have yummy rolls, I guess you mean a bread rolled with salad meat etc.

I think Hastings, but do mix the two towns up (we drive through and I just assume Hastings - by the Top 10 holiday park with the aviaries).

We see a lot of the country, but not much of the towns/cities we go to. I worked out that after heading to Raglan umpteen times, we should actually go look at Raglan (Wellington was the same, we just avoided it).

There are two great New Worlds in Hamilton too that seem to have just about everything and more! They seem expensive tho but a pleasure to go into.