Geelong's best shopping streets

from w
As an opponent of huge shopping complexes and supermarkets I would suggest that residents and visitors to Geelong forget about Westfield type of developments and explore the ordinary shopping streets of places like High Street Belmont, or Pakington Street in Geelong West. For local shopping there are usually small shopping strips such as Watsons Rd Newcomb which is not far for us to walk or drive and which has a variety of shops for groceries, vegetables, hardware and so on.

In Melbourne it's the same, though often a street full of shops will change over years - from having a variety to cater for every need, to becoming elitist or specialist - such as Punt Rd in Prahran and probably South Yarra and Toorak, which they nostalgically call 'The Village' because it once was user-friendly.

So in the argument between shopping in supermarkets or shopping strips I favour the latter mainly because I like to support small, local family businesses and you get to know the shopkeepers.