A 4,400 sq metre former Bunnings has become the site of a store that feels ‘more like the Easter show food hall than a veg shop’
We’re greeted at the entrance by an enormous smiling strawberry. We’re hot with collective anticipation and it’s gleaming at us like Reg Mombassa has designed the Colossus of Rhodes. Foot traffic backs up as we collectively reckon with the scale of the place.
Children mung on free bananas in the playground, their parents sip lattes and, in the distance, the line for fresh donuts snakes through the confrontingly-priced granola section. A family stand in the cold of the dairy, challenging one another to inhale the most foot-evoking European cheeses. There’s a pavilion devoted to potato varieties, appropriately titled the “Spud Pavilion”.
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