why are we complaining?

“Welcome to Albury city, the heart of the Murray.”

The main street of a relatively large country city must have a lot to offer…on the contrary it seems. Two liquor stores hold solid, dominating the blockes situated either side of the Albury’s main street entrance.

Recently the citizens of Albury have been able to purchase alcohol from yet another liquor chain newly opened, offering lower prices then those recommended.

‘First Choice’ is the new outlets brand – arousing images of importance, necessity, essentials to living. Instead these images are flooded with bottles upon bottles of wine, sprits and endless slabs of beer. Is it correct to be advertising alcohol as a number one choice? Should it been at the bottom of the list of wants? Maybe ‘47th Choice’ would be a more appropriate name.
Through the celebrating crowds, the dense covering of balloons, the local radio station on location set-up, and free sausage sizzle a couple exit the store with a prized trolley and child in tow. Four slabs of Carlton beer make the trolley hard to efficiently move. These slabs are set off beautifully by the two large Bourbon bottles placed in the trolley’s child seat, taking the prized position.

This can not be sending the couples child quality messages, who has been displaced from there trolley position and now struggling to keep up with its parents pace which is being fastened by the pull of the overloaded trolley.

Such high celibration are not seen with every store opening, so why are we holding ballons when a cheap alcholic beverage store opens? How do we control binge drinking when prices are low and acess is easy. The problems occuring on Dean street at night are cause by drunk people. Should the council have allowed another supplier to hit the street of Albury when council is continously taking action to reduce the violence on the streets.

"Come to Albury… we supply alcohol at low and competitive prices. Please, shop again soon.”