McGregors Road Superette is a dairy and convenience store at 26 McGregors Rd in Beckenham, a residential Christchurch suburb, with a 3.2 Google rating. Dairies are a fixture of New Zealand neighbourhoods — the corner stop for milk, bread, ice creams and the last-minute items that don't justify a trip to the supermarket. What separates a good one is freshness on the basics, with bread and milk turned over quickly, and the small things done right: drinks properly chilled, papers in, a queue that moves at school pickup. Prices usually sit a little above the big chains, so most locals treat the dairy as a top-up shop rather than a weekly one, judging it on convenience and familiarity. The best ones know their regulars and stock for the street they're on. For Beckenham, having that kind of stop just up the road on McGregors is the whole point of a local dairy.