Quick Market St Albans is a dairy at 147 Springfield Road in St Albans, Christchurch, with a 3.8 rating on Google.
The dairy is a small New Zealand institution: the corner shop that keeps a neighbourhood running between supermarket trips. Good ones stand or fall on the basics — today's bread and milk, a drink fridge that is genuinely cold, and hours that reach further than any supermarket's, public holidays included. Prices are usually a little above the supermarket's, which most people accept as the fair cost of not driving across town for a litre of milk. Regulars size a dairy up quickly: whether the bread is fresh, the ice blocks actually frozen, and the odds good of finding that one ingredient tonight's dinner needs.
For households along Springfield Road, having a dairy a short walk away is one of those quiet conveniences you only really notice when it closes.