The owner's service is the main thing regulars mention at this local store on Curletts Road in Riccarton. One customer says they have been coming since childhood and found the service awesome and the staff super friendly. Another has been a customer for eight years and says the owner has always given the best service.
Reviews are not all positive. One customer reported problems with food safety: pies stored in a fridge that also holds the owner's personal food, sweets that were two weeks past their date, and old ice blocks in the freezer with ice build-up on them. That customer found the store disgusting and says so plainly. It is the only review in the material that raises these points.
Of the dairies within a kilometre, the only other one listed is Sockburn Food Mart and Discounter, 0.9 km away, which has no rating on Open Locally.