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Super Shopping in Berowra
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DescriptionIn 1959 Hans and Karla Weller of Turner Road (since 1957 and still there) started Super Shopping Service
It was then a novel idea: collecting orders every Tuesday and delivering them to customers in Berowra and Mt. Kuringai (and later Cowan, Mt. Colah and Asquith) later in the week.
The goods delivered comprised groceries, meat, fruit and veges, delicatessen, bulk store goods (then in vogue), dry cleaning and much more.
It was a welcome service in an area with few shops and little transport and for people without their own transport. Especially the elderly were happy to have their orders delivered. In those days it was even possible to leave the door open so that goods could be put in the kitchen and the meat in the fridge! So the customer did not have to stay home to take delivery.
As the business grew a shop (later demolished) was opened at the Cross roads and later they bought Max Taylor’s(?) fruit shop next-door (also gone – now Homebiz).
The idea was ahead of its time: it would have been simpler to run with a computer and mobile phones – then non-existent.
It was a period in which the banks were tight-fisted and so a point was reached where necessary extension was not possible and of course new competition from supermarkets made business less profitable, despite the hard work that went into it.
So after Christmas 1965 the fruit shop was sold and the delivery service closed.
The type of business was ahead of its time and would now be a bonus for working mothers and seniors in the community in this era.
We wonder who remembers the service or has it been completely forgotten?
Physical FormatBerowraDimensionsBerowra Living History
It was then a novel idea: collecting orders every Tuesday and delivering them to customers in Berowra and Mt. Kuringai (and later Cowan, Mt. Colah and Asquith) later in the week.
The goods delivered comprised groceries, meat, fruit and veges, delicatessen, bulk store goods (then in vogue), dry cleaning and much more.
It was a welcome service in an area with few shops and little transport and for people without their own transport. Especially the elderly were happy to have their orders delivered. In those days it was even possible to leave the door open so that goods could be put in the kitchen and the meat in the fridge! So the customer did not have to stay home to take delivery.
As the business grew a shop (later demolished) was opened at the Cross roads and later they bought Max Taylor’s(?) fruit shop next-door (also gone – now Homebiz).
The idea was ahead of its time: it would have been simpler to run with a computer and mobile phones – then non-existent.
It was a period in which the banks were tight-fisted and so a point was reached where necessary extension was not possible and of course new competition from supermarkets made business less profitable, despite the hard work that went into it.
So after Christmas 1965 the fruit shop was sold and the delivery service closed.
The type of business was ahead of its time and would now be a bonus for working mothers and seniors in the community in this era.
We wonder who remembers the service or has it been completely forgotten?
Physical FormatBerowraDimensionsBerowra Living History
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Super Shopping in Berowra. Hornsby Shire, accessed 25/07/2026, https://hornsbyshire.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/4206