Last week I went to malls in 3 suburbs (well, 2 suburbs & the CBD) chasing one product - 3 doses of the same shops, cos all the Malls have the same retailers, with a few small local ones in each suburb.

If I'd seen staff to ask at the first store I might have been able to miss the second & gone straight to the one that held what I wanted. At least the 3rd Mall is in an area with a Chinese & south-east Asian population so they have some great supermarkets & food markets, but I was collecting a humungeous woolly underblanket with electric blanket so I couldn't buy any yummy groceries.

I like some shopping (craft shops!) but I hate huge malls, especially the ones that are odd-shaped where it's hard to find individual shops. The first Mall is divided by a street & after I'd escaped, a lost woman asked me which side held the shop she wanted. I apologised cos I knew how to find it when I was inside, but had no idea which entrance she wanted. So I wished her luck.

sandra