Capalaba Park Shopping Centre is a sub-regional centre in the eastern 'burbs. This means it's…read morebigger than some of the smaller centres, which have around 50-60 shops but smaller than the regional ones, like Carindale, which have about a bazillion. Capalaba Park has 110 shops, which is fairly respectable and you'd hope you could find something to satisfy the shopaholic within here. I usually can and like it because I can almost always find a parking spot straight away and the centre's quite well laid out. The food court's not bad and there's a Target, Coles, Woolies and K-Mart, plus lots of specialty shops.

Absolutely love this place. Loads and loads of cheap pantry, fridge and freezer items. Stock…read morechanges often so if you find something in here you want then buy it because next time you go it might not be there. Great place to go for lunch box snacks. We once got a 24 serve pavlova for $5 that wasn't anywhere near its used by date and was absolutely delicious. Some of the stock is getting close to the best before date but that just means you are going to get an even better special. Think Sarah lea cheesecakes 2 for $5. Peters ice creams were 3 for $5 when I was there last. So many different things every time I've been. Btw it's not just golden circle products. One of The best parts of this place is the fact they put bulk prices as well as individual and most times buying the whole box is slightly cheaper than individual price. Win win in my books, if you know you like the product you can get a great deal on a whole carton.

First things first.. this is not a place that you can rely on having your favourite product all the…read moretime. You can't always find the shampoo you got last time. This is like the DFO of all food places. Golden Circle products are always in, most of the time Cadbury is in stock as well. As for everything else, do not count on it. This is the place you should come before you go to Coles/ Woolies to grab some cheap bargains, then fill in the gaps with what you couldn't snatch up at Golden Circle. This place is crazy good. Today I snagged a 'Marvellous Creations' block of Cadbury chocolate for $2.. usually you'd pay $6-8 per slab!! How great. You can get deli style meats, cake mix, drinks, pasta, rice, frozen foods, house cleaning products and i literally mean hundreds more items. DO NOT GIVE THIS PLACE A MISS FOR THAT REASON THOUGH. I am yelling because it is SO GOOD. If you want to save $$ (Students i'm talking to you) it is so worth the drive. NB. you need some gold coinage for a trolley and you need to spend over $10 to use eftpos. Also. A man with muscles should come with you to carry the slabs of ridiculously cheap drinks. (I got 24 cans of sparkling cranberry juice for $6) W.O.W

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I love Westfield Carindale! I don't think, from memory, I've ever visited and not enjoyed the…read moreexperience. I bypass three other closer, smaller shopping complexes and drive straight to Carindale. Took my kids, now 40 and 37, often and now take my grandchildren. I love the renovations, major stores and specialty shops. The parents' rooms are always clean and well appointed. Love the Event cinemas. Plenty of great coffee shops. Late night Christmas shopping is always a favourite time for me. Thanks Westfield Carindale.

The love of Carindale (like all the biggest stars, it's only known by one name) has been handed…read moredown through the generations of my family. My Mum passed down her passion for this place to me and my sister in law - and now we're handing down the pleasure to my 3 year old niece, Olivia (who loves it) and 14 month old Renzo (distinctly unimpressed). So why does this slightly ugly (from the outside) building inspire so much devotion in the female members of my family? Well, for those times we can't be bothered traipsing into town, Carindale pretty much has everything we could need. Except, perhaps, a chic cocktail bar. But I live in hope. Myer, David Jones, Sportsgirl, Dotti, Portmans, Witchery, cinemas, grocery stores, mobile phone shops, sports stores...it's like a one-stop-shopping-utopia for all our needs. With carpet. Yep, to this day, it's the only Westfield I've been in that has carpet. It's not particularly nice and occasionally gives you static attacks but I kinda like that it gives Carindale a strangely unusual USP. Even my friends in London laugh at my Carindale obsession (I've recently relocated back home after a lengthy stint living in London). Every email they send me usually starts with "so, how many times have you been to Carindale this week?" (I don't usually answer as I'm slightly ashamed that sometimes it's so often I feel I should take a sleeping bag and just move in). As Westfields go (and there's a gazillion of them in Brisneyland) this is not the biggest (yet) but it soon will be. I'm positively giddy at the fact they're spending $300m making it even more ginormous. For me! According to the website, it's due for completion in late 2012 and "will include a new parallel mall over two levels, a new full-line Coles supermarket, a relocated larger-format Target and a new dining precinct. Plus approximately 120 new stores including a range of Australian and international designers." Readers, dreams can come true.

If you ever have to meet anyone at "the shopping centre" at Cannon Hill, be very clear with your…read moreinstructions. I don't know which braniac came up with this (I'm sure there's a history to it), but there are actually TWO "plazas" on the corner here. Maybe even three. Things are very awkward in Cannon Hill. Cannon Central Shopping Centre is like Kmart Plaza's evil twin. Located RIGHT next door, it's dark and dingy and there seems to be a generally unclean feeling about the place. Stop in here if you absolutely must visit the monstrous cheap shop at the top of the escalator, but let it be known that it may be... at your peril.

This is an undiscovered gem. You will find two different op shops, a range of ingredients for foods…read morefrom around the world and some vintage goodies. There is a huge Sam's warehouse and many smaller discount shops including Trad's and a true $2 shop (behind Woolies and near BCF). Yes, it's a bit more low-brow than Kmart Plaza, and it is at the other end of the complex to Bunnings, but come for a treasure hunt and you won't be disappointed. Also has a BOQ and Woolies.