Johor Premium Outlets - JPO

I have many of my friends asking me about this the moment I announced that hubby and I were relocating to Johor! "Remember to visit the JPO" "JPO man! Its going to be cool!" and so on and so forth. They make JPO look like it is something worth the hoo-hah! Well brought my sis and my mom there last week and it was nothing at all! Remember hubby's colleagues telling him JPO is premium man! It is something that the Johorian take pride in. Something that they consider above average! Well to be honest :

If you are from Johor : It's JPO man! It's wahhhhh!!!!!!
If you hail from KL the land of giant shopping malls, where they compete to built larger and larger malls each year you will be like" It's J-P-O?!!?? 

The main branded stores are : Burberry & Coach. (These are middle luxury) If you consider CK Jeans premium ok! Throw that in as well and also DKNY, POLO & Canali (If you have heard of them! No! Not Cavalli! Not Roberto Cavalli that I love! Its Canali) 
Then followed by the normal shop items : Nike Factory, Puma, Adidas, La Senza Lingerie, Padini, Body Shop and so on and so forth. Those that basically you could easily get in Midvalley, Sunway Pyramid! How premium is that? What I consider Premium is..... VENICE & MILAN! Every single shops is branded, ranging from upper luxury (Gucci, Hermes, Prada) to luxury (LV, Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino, Armani and so on) that is what I called premium! I could called Pavilion, The Gardens maybe The Curve premium but this hardly qualify! 

Only thing worth to be called premium is the way the shops are design. Its is something very new and fresh! The concept is nice! They are very modern. It's opened air concept! They do copy some architecture from Venice! Venice is surrounded by water up to the doorsteps but this is land but equally pretty I would say! So well done on designing this thing! I love it! But honestly they need to buck up on the shops that they house else this place will lose it appeal.

I went into normal shops like Padini, Body Shop, G2000 and La Senza. 
Padini Concept Store - You should look at the way your KL counterparts arrange their goods, its much more easier that way given that you have the privilege of space that they don't have! 
Body Shop - With such a big store, you should carry full range of your BodyShop products instead of partially! I went in and ask for the shimmer blusher and was told they do not carry cosmetic products! Why not?! It's not premium enough?
G2000 - Majority of your items are off season and on discount? Good sign or bad?
La Senza - You ran out of sizes? How come? For your info Malaysia do not have that much DD, E & F sizes! But more to B and C cups! So why are you stocking up on those??!!?? You should be looking at smaller cups (sorry I am really small - no worries as long as the hubby does not complaint!) I was told that you ran out of bra & underwear of normal sizes. Come on! That's a bummer!

Then the location is nothing to be happy about. It is built in no-men-land! And you have to go through highways and byways to get to it! Another downside is food outlet! There is not much food outlets available??!? You should called in more up-class western and local cuisines. Food do attract people from near and far! Choice of food is very limited! So will I be going back again? Maybe for the Starbucks and for the fun of dating with my husband! Maybe!