Woolworths - My Two Cents

There has been a lot of whingeing by people recently about the impending development of a Woolworths in Mission Beach. Well, I think all you whingers are idiots.

What choice have you currently got for grocery shopping? Either you can do a roundtrip to Innisfail and waste 100km of fuel; you can drive to Tully and get not a lot of a choice in the IGA; or you can pay the exorbitant prices charged by the local grocery stores. I mean, if you're all getting worked up about the environment then that hour and fifteen minutes to and from Innisfail isn't doing it much good and neither is the 40 minute one to and from Tully. Agreed, there should be a lot of planting going on around the new Woolworths site with local plants but take a look at it now. It's yet another bit of ugly, cleared land standing idle in Australia.

Come on Woolies, build the place as soon as possible so that we can all have some selection in our produce, blend it in as much as possible with clever planting, give us reasonable prices, and don't feed us with the leftovers that people from the North Shore in Sydney wouldn't buy because it the quality was too poor.