Yes, my local is a Drakes too, and one of the next closest is a larger Drakes that I occasionally go to for things I can’t get at the smaller one, but I’m pretty lucky - I travel by bike, so I do depend on what’s available fairly close. About every 3 months or so I’ll drop into Coles for one occasional item that I can’t get at Drakes, and I hate it - the self-service checkouts, the aisles filled with Coles-brand items … just the whole experience is shit.

I recommend the episodes of the Behind The Bastards podcast where they read through Ben Shapiro’s novel, they are hilarious.

The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo

Yes! Follow Cory Doctorow, he explains all of this so well.