Haere Mai (하레마이) is a supermarket at 125 Victoria Street in Te Aro, central Wellington, holding a solid 4.6 Google rating and sharing news through its Facebook page. A good inner-city supermarket lives on turnover rather than size: produce replaced often, dates checked, and staples reliably in stock. In a suburb of apartments, offices and students like Te Aro, most shopping is top-ups — tonight's dinner, milk, a quick lunch — rather than the big weekly trolley, so short queues and consistent shelf-stocking matter as much as range. Regulars learn a store's rhythm: which mornings the fresh stock lands, and whether the shelves carry the international ingredients an inner-city neighbourhood actually cooks with. For flat-dwellers and workers around Victoria Street and the Cuba quarter, Haere Mai puts a well-liked supermarket within a short walk.