Just how many bakeries can one shopping centre intersection support?

johnnycash said :

Golden Crust is about 30% cheaper than Bakers Delight I have noticed…

I really don’t like Bakers Delight Bread anyway… whilst Golden Crust is no Cournoucopia/Silo it’s a far cry better than BD, not to mention the folk at Golden Crust are much much nicer (I go there fairly regularly when running errands into that part of the city).

I guess so long as they pay rent QIC don’t mind. Either that, or they’ve applied some US Bank Management ideology to the Canberra Centre Baking Industry.

It always seems like a long walk to find lunch.. and if u change ur mind u have to walk to the other side.. and hence u just have what ur near!

Golden Crust is about 30% cheaper than Bakers Delight I have noticed…

Yeah, it’s been like that since Bakers Delight opened up (GC was there first). And yet BD is always the one with more people buying from it, it boggles my mind…

A shopping centre is hardly a free market.

An intriguing claim jonhboy, I’m interested to hear what you mean by this.

On the topic at hand, anyone who spends more than about 15 seconds pondering this, needs to march themselves to the poor part of town, and get to work improving peoples lives.

…actually now that I think about it, I’d advocate that for everyone.

It’s Hotelling’s Law.

I don’t mind having 3 bakeries in the one centre. But they could at least have spaced them out a bit more.

Let them eat cake!

A donut king !? Did they finally put a Donut King in the Canberra Centre !?

Excellent! Now the job of scrounging $2 together to buy 1 cinnamon donut.

Golden Crust is about 30% cheaper than Bakers Delight I have noticed…

Where was the “Just Right” option for the poll?

I feel ripped off. Though more couldn’t hurt I guess. 🙂

I love bread, me.

There can never be too many bakeries if they are good and have unique products.

It’s a shopping centre; who cares? If they can make it profitable, good for them. If not, they will soon go broke, and it will make no difference to anyone except their competition. What a stupid poll!

Dobinson’s are completely different from the chain/mainstream bakeries, which is a good thing. Re the photo, it’s a bit sad that people choose to sit in those noisy, barn-like, glary places to eat and drink. Shopping mall food courts give me the willies.

A donut king !? Did they finally put a Donut King in the Canberra Centre !?

Although I will defend Dobinson’s and Bakers Delight being right next to each other… they don’t sell anything the same!

haha, i love how the couple at the table, are staring at you with a “wtf???” expression…