This Woolworths has ATMs,Fresh Seafood & a In store Bakery. They have low prices and every weekend…read moreFresh Fairs. The only down side is parking. Not enough parking. Near by stores include Aldi, Bakers delight and Subway. Every year from July or about June to august they hold there earn & learn promotion where you shop for your school.

Unfortunately Quantas lost my luggage so after 3 days of wearing their pajamas we stoped in to buy…read moreanother bag and some clothing. I was amazed to see a grocery store with a full produce section open to the mall. Not something Sean in the states. Big place with 2 levels and plenty of stores. Picked up a new suitcase for $150 (40%off) and clothes to wear for a few days. I will be back if Quantas has still not returned my luggage after another 3 days.

It is a mall. A nice mall. All your shopping and dining whims can be fulfilled here. Groceries…read more Fresh foods...fruit, veggies, fish, meats etc. Clothes. Two Food courts. The upstairs food courts has many other choices and lots of seating. Apple Store Restaurants. Parking. A couple of stories. Lots of stores. Air conditioned. Close to train station. Quite convenient.

It looks almost like a high-end store out of the 1950's. Immaculate décor, tidy shelves and…read moredisplays, and a fairly stuck up sales lady. The shop sells gifts, furniture, women's clothing and homewares, all very reminiscent of the 'old times'. Tablecloths with pretty floral patterns, A-line dresses, white ceramic trinkets, doilies, for the love of god. It's actually really cute. The colour schemes are great, I love the patterns they have, and they have some truly unique furniture pieces, the kind that you wouldn't expect to be factory-made. Intricate little vanities, white, ornate chests of drawers... that kind of thing. While any of this would look terribly out of my place in my living area, there are plenty who enjoy home décor of this sort, so if you're one of them, give it a look.

Loganberry Lane (which sounds like the street address for a character from Anne of Green Gables to…read moreme) is a lovely gift shop chock full of a huge range of clothing, accessories and homeware. While a little heavy on the scented candles for my taste, there's a whole room of babies clothes, toys and gifts for kids, and a smaller one out the back which has a range of women's cotton nightwear of the white and floaty variety. There's also some women's clothing, also mostly of cotton, including some brands like Boom Shankar that I have seen priced much more expensively elsewhere. There's the odd real bargain hiding in here, as well as a few local and handmade items, including a small range of locally produced fudge locked away in a coolbox.

Formerly 'Linen and Lace' this treasurebox of vintage gorgeousness has recently had a major revamp…read more Run as a charity by the Presbyterian Social Services, Frippery puts your average op shop to shame in terms of style. Decked out with tremendous flair, the vintage and secondhand clothes, linens, laces, crockery and sewing patterns on sale vividly demonstrate the life old and loved things can still have in them, given half a chance. They also stock a bunch of locally made beautiful things, including some great kids' clothes made from recycled vintage fabric. When I popped in the other day, they had a basket out front overflowing with lace placemats and doilies - you could fill a paper bag for $10. You can use them in all sorts of ways - be creative! With all profits going to charity, it's hard to fault such a worthwhile shop, and there's some lovely things to discover, with new stock added often. You could walk out with a handful of vintage buttons to jazz up a plain jacket, a chiffon dress, or a gift for a friend. Check out the website for details on the shop philosophy of reuse and recycling.

Foot of the Mountains is a women's shoe shop of the higher end variety, stocking a small but well…read morechosen range, including a bunch of European brands hard to find elsewhere. They also have a selection of handbags, hats, jewellery and hosiery. The staff are helpful but not pushy (a rare and wonderful combination) and they always have a sale table out the front where you can pick up some real bargains. Got my eye on some fab purple strappy ankle boot things at the moment that actually fit and are comfortable! But alas, a little out of my price range for now. But they're purple... sigh...

Barely open six weeks, this new antique store was a welcome surprise after expecting to find the…read moreprevious occupant - homewares and candles of an overpoweringly twee nature. Nice Old Stuff is a great improvement, I'm still trying to work out where on earth I'd fit the farmhouse table they had in the window with the most gorgeous worn, textured surface. Walking in, you're surrounded by antiques and collectables, as well as a few contemporary items that I personally found less appealing, but all are displayed with flair and interest. An antique tin hipbath sits atop a table, old fishing reels jostle with vintage kitchenalia, the creepy uranium-green of Depression glass glows next to beautiful woodwork. The staff were chatty and eager to help, obviously excited by the recent opening. There's soap you can pick up for a few dollars right through to an amazing antique railway cupboard for considerably more. A great place to browse and they do restorations and repairs as well. Now where could I put that table?

The Hippy Shop in Springwood is right opposite the train station, and takes up almost the entire…read moresidewalk! But I like it, it has a very marketplace-y feel. And, true to their name, all the products are hippy-like! Tie-dye tops, dresses and baggy pants, hemp totes, Buddha statues, antique-looking artefacts like an old chest of drawers, a small cabinet, what looks to be an armoire, plush, ornate pouffes.. and that's just on the outside! If you venture inside (where it's dark and only lit with lamps), you'll see more intricately designed artefacts, like little stone figurines, ornamental lanterns, windchimes which are constantly making soothing tinkling sounds in the background as you browse... it's really quite a lovely atmosphere. There's even all kinds of incense, including one that is made to smell like marijuana. Why one would want incense that smells that marijuana, I'm not quite sure. You also get a nice mix of cheap items, and expensive items, so there will always be something to fit your budget.

Ok, take a deep breath…read more.. New Age Markets, known to all and sundry as 'The Hippy Shop' (it even says so on the sign) has been a much loved local institution for decades. It is not, however, for those whose nightmares involve asphyxiation by tie-dyed Indian cotton and rampaging throw pillows. The Hippy Shop takes the notion of abundance to nigh absurd levels, consistently cramming a level of stock to the point where walking down an aisle becomes an all-terrain obstacle course, leaving you clambering over piles of Vietnamese crockery, Nepalese picture frames and Buddhas in collective repose. Not the mention the death from above threat dealt by hanging lanterns and children's toys of bewildering variety. And that's only the first half of the store. Duck through a doorway suffocated by handbags I suspect are breeding together in quiet moments and you reach the clothing room, barely navigable for the arms of silk, cotton and hemp reaching out from the walls and from the centre racks. There's an indiscriminate range here too - from the cheap and awful to some genuinely stylish pieces. My advice is to buy something straightaway if you like it, set it down for a moment and it'll be sucked back into the seething maw never to be seen again. The staff are more than friendly and the store itself stocks everything from crystals to handmade soap, shoes to jewellery; you can even get a psychic reading on request. I couldn't bet on it, but there may be the odd kitchen sink lurking under piles of sari bedspreads and scented candles. I'm in two minds about this claustrophobe's nightmare of a shop, although I can only manage a 15 minute stint before I feel like I'm drowning, if the store did clear out to normal levels, it just might lose a great deal of its oddball charm, and as it is you're sure to find something to suit just about any taste. Just don't expect to find it in a hurry.

Happen to be driving through the Blue Mountains on Easter Sunday and found the shop was open. For…read moresuch a small shop it is packed with books. I also was amazed when the nice shop keeper was able to help me find a hard to find book in their large Sci-Fi / Fantasy section. They had it and I was impressed. They also had Fighting Fantasy game books and a few how-to draw books, which I've not seen anywhere else in Australia. Will be going back here again.

Cream of the crop…read more Blue Dragon Books only opened three years ago but has become, in my humble, one of the best secondhand bookshops in the local area. Small, but perfectly formed, the Dragon (as I think I now dub it) seems to go for quality rather than quanitity of mindless trash you can pick up elsewhere. Not that mindless trash doesn't have its place. Just not here. They've a well-organised and clear layout, making it possible to instantly lay your hand on something you were looking for, or stumble across something unexpected. Diane, the owner, is a delight, and knows her stock well, chatting knowledgably about a wide range of books, and stocking an extensive selection of children's books, I think the largest sci-fi fantasy range in the Blue Mountains, a big crime section, as well as general Lit and the other usual suspects. They run a generous store credit system, not paying a pittance for books in cash as most secondhand bookstores do, but offering a larger chunk of change in credit you can use at the time, or record for later. Not that I've ever had the slightest difficulty in finding something to blow the credit on. And did I mention their prices are some of the most reasonable around? This week I dropped off 4 books, and came out with some classic spinster crime, a history book about Queen Caroline, wronged wife of the Prince Regent, a Russian murder mystery and a novel about art theft and mysticism. Am happy.