Avoid this Seafood Stall!

We went to Queen Victoria Market last weekend to check out the library nearby. It is new, and has a magnificent rooftop garden that overlooks the Queen Victoria Market. I took a picture of the market, sat in one of the deck chairs to enjoy the sunny weather, read a short book, and had a wonderful time in the library. 

I love libraries for the books, the magazines and newspapers in them and the cozy reading spaces. But the floor space for books in libraries have been increasingly reduced to make way for meeting rooms and work spaces. It is puzzling to me why libraries are destroying their core 'business' that is stocking printed materials for sharing instead venturing into the business of co working spaces. Businesses that need a working space or meeting rooms can rent in one of the many empty office buildings in the cbd, a consequence of the working from home culture. Students who want to meet up have their schools, university spaces to use. So who are these floors of meeting rooms and working spaces catered to? If they want to provide services to the community, then maybe housing for the homeless would be more pressing?

 After visiting the library, we went to Queen Victoria Market to buy some veges and seafood. There I encountered a dishonest fishmonger, so this post is to remind me not to return to this seafood stall called 'Victoria Market Seafood'. There are many good reviews on Google under this name on the Internet but that is because people mistake it for Vic Mart itself. This is a specific stall within the market. It is located in the seafood section, one of the last seafood stalls from the entrance to the seafood area.

I bought a baby barramundi which the fishmonger weighed twice, both times of which I could see the price displayed on the electronic weighing machine in front of me. He then charged me more than the price calculated on the scale without batting an eyelid! I was already waving a note in my hand for cash payment but he typed in the payment on the card machine. There was a sign at the back of the shop notifying that there is a surcharge with card payments but did not specify the percentage. When I checked my statement, the surcharge was 1.13%. It is reasonable but I have two gripes:

- I was not given the choice of paying by cash so it is by coercion that I have to pay the credit card surcharge

- The fishmonger is dishonest by charging above the weighed price of the item

Note to self: Do not buy from Victoria Market Seafood ever again.