Woolworths at Neutral Bay is somehow timeless. An eternal purgatory. It's the highest grossing Woolworths in Australia and I'd like to end that right now.
Years ago they used to say that the fruit and vege department was somehow a pick up area. There was a story that if you placed your bananas in the baby carry area, you had certain things in mind. Place the broccoli somewhere else and you particularly stood out. Carrots and cucumber did not mean the same as zucchini and so on. Even the most obscure fruits had meanings according to some.
You want to know something? That was crap. It never was true and never will be true. Woolworths at Neutral Bay always was and always will be a living hell.
The people who shop there are offensive as are the staff. You get pushed around and after only five minutes in the store you feel like a rag-doll.
Everything is picked-over with e-coli laced hands and there is absolutely no parking. You drive around and around and around. There are in excess of 800 people in the store but only 80 parking spaces underneath.
There's a tiny stairway from the parking area and people with shopping in hand are unable to pass each other without inflicting minor to less than minor abrasions on each other.
The trees in the car park never grow. They look as they did 15 years ago. Stunted, deformed and sick. The surface of the car park itself is greasy and gum spattered.
ooooh shudder!
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