Westside Village Shopping Centre — Attraction in Victoria

This is a busy and well situated shopping plaza. The various businesses and shop offerings include: coffee, grocery, liquor (with surprisingly good and diverse selections of most everything), yummy food options (currently there's the best taco shop on the planet, great burger joint, pizza by the slice, sushi, and a smoothie hangout), pet supplies, shipping, banking, drug store, nail salon, and an amazing health center (think massage, chiropractic, osteopathic, homeopathic - it's all there)...and a few other accessible necessities/businesses worth checking out. The surrounding community has been growing rapidly over the past few years, and the shops are doing well to provide the unique services which might be a bit more than simply basic. The downfall, and why the 5th star will not be given, is the upper parking area nightmare. To say it can get tight is an understatement. The lot and how it is configured is small to begin with, and the increased traffic makes it more of a challenge to navigate without raging. Save yourself the grief and go to the underground parkade. Otherwise,...

Nice little shopping area, not much for parking! Anyway I did check out the Save-on-foods, Dollarama and the Starbucks.

All of which met standard lol. I did find the Save-on layout a bit different from what I'm use to seeing up island. Not bad, just different.

This Starbucks had the front clerk give me the steangest look when I asked if they had cream base. For my Frappuccino a cream base is much better than the coffee base and there has been a shortage of cream base. Anyway they had some and I have to admit it was the fastest place I've ordered from.

Dollarama's selection was good even though its one of the smaller stores I've shopped. Also there was no and I mean no self-checkout! While self-checkout has its purpose I love dealing with a cashier.

There are a few other places within the shopping area and maybe I will check out the rest of it next time. Which I...

There is nothing particularly outstanding about this outdoor mall. There is a Save-on-Foods grocery store which has a pharmacy, and deli, a Starbucks, TD Bank, as well as other small stores and offices.

Most interestingly perhaps, is the WIN store, which is a second hand store. They have a small amount of men's clothing, as they primarily cater to women. They also have a small amount of items for children. In addition to clothing, they sell books, shoes, small household items (no furniture), and a small amount of jewellery. Proceeds go to funding programs for women, and to one of the local...