Sylvia Park Mall

[Fishy]

Im gonna walk over there at lunch time and check out the food hall...screw the retail stores Im just in it for the food mmmmmmm foooood.

[Gremlin]

Im gonna walk over there at lunch time...

yeah... hope you didn't drive

Apparently the police had to shut down the car park at one point for 4 hours, due to the huge amount of traffic. It even backed-up the southern causing chaos all around.

Least I can still split to get where I need to go

[yungatart]

And the pillocks in our midst would have us believe that this is progress....
whats that old song...... they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[BuFfY]

But when anything new opens there are always big queues.... everyone HAS to see something new!

[Karma]

Least I can still split to get where I need to go

You sure?

Mind you, at least you've got that van with the wide load warning driving ahead of you.

[What?]

OOooooh!! A new mall! I can hardly wait...

[chanceyy]

they are hoping that mall will generate 1 million in sales a week ... can see the credit cards taking a hammering ... debt level will skyrocket ....

glad its in Aucks ..


only another 4 in the country to go ...


off side .. while staying in the states had similar set up .. was fantastic to shop in but it was not impacting on other shops in the burbs, as they were quite well out of the way, just wonder how the shopping centres close to sylvia park will survive

[Fishy]

Well I walked over there to scout out the food hall and to be honest, its just another damn mall.

Same old shit different location. Even the food hall has the same old stores as what is in Pakuranga Plaza. Lame!. Don't think I'll go back there again.

[Squeak the Rat]

I'm flabbergasted that sooooo many people need to be the first to see a new shopping centre. I suppose it has all those new shops - The Warehouse, Hallensteins, Sunglass Hut, Glassons etc etc etc that have been seen 50,000,000 times before, but they are new!

If this is what "normal" people enjoy then I'm not normal (shuddup) and happy about it.

Heard on the radio this morning that the council reckons the traffic jams cost local businesses millions of dollars. Yet another example of great Auckland planning.

I'll visit the mall one day....

[Lou Girardin]

Shopping is the new recreational activity of choice.
Sad fuckers.

[bugjuice]

they are hoping that mall will generate 1 million in sales a week ... can see the credit cards taking a hammering ... debt level will skyrocket ....

what I don't get tho, is that no matter what mall or town or street you go to, they're all the same f'in shop!!!!!! There's a Glassons in every mall, there's a Halenstiens in every mall, there's a bloody everything else in almost every mall.. so why do they have to go buy stuff from the new mall?!?!

Just go to the old ones, they've got the same stuff!!

[NC]

I vomited in my mouth when I saw that mall

[Finn]

I haven't been to a mall in NZ for over 6 years and I have no intention of going to Silvia Park. I hate malls with a passion. They're full of Neanderthals, aimlessly wandering around the place in search of food.

As for the Warehouse, I can't understand the attraction. Stephen Tindall is the real Montgomery Burns. A nasty man indeed. Oh what about the Tindal Foundation I hear you say. It's just a tax dodge cleverly disguised as a PR exercise that appears to be helping the community. Yeah right. What about all those independents he's put out of business? He's ruined small town NZ. What about all those small NZ suppliers they've screwed over?

There's a conspiracy going on I tell you. It is no coincidence the Warehouse and the Labour Party share the same colour.

[Lou Girardin]

When I shop I want small shops with owner/operators who have product knowledge and an interest in what they sell.
Not bored, spotty school leavers who wouldn't know a widget from a doofer and are more interested in harvesting their new crop of pimples than actually serving customers.
So you can see that I don't shop much.
And what is it with food halls?
Do we have this urge to revert to primate behaviour and have people watch us while we eat?

[ManDownUnder]

LMAO.....

it's a MALL... a set of shops all in the one spot... oh yay!

What's different about it. It has... a "man creche"?? *YAWN* So that means the guys have somewhere to hang out while the boss parts with the cash. yippee...

Tis no different than any other mall in this land of ours, except it's the biggest. WTF Explain how that is better again?