Help me I'm lost in your store!!!

[Fenner]

Those huge stores, they're everywhere. Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. I remember going to the hardware store with my Dad Ioved the smell. It had a smell to me anyhow. We'd go about a mile from our house, someone would help us and we'd leave. Now if my Husband forces me to go to hardware heaven I feel lost.

We were in Lowe's one time looking for something. I asked before if we could just go up the road to tiny store? No we have to go to Lowe's. So four of us go to Lowe's, three of us get lost and end up calling one to find out where he is. What's the aisile number?

It's like that now. It seems these stores need to be super and huge. Can't someone just build a normal size store?

I don't like to shop. I do frequent Sam's Club, it's huge. When you need some help you have to hunt a person down. Then that person has to call someone on a walkie talkie, then you have to wait for that person .

I miss small stores!

 

[Bugs2]

Dude, I totally get that!

 

[TemporaryCircumstances]

The dollar store is decent sized lol

 

[Fenner]

The dollar store is decent sized lol

You're right! That's one reason I like going there. Plus that LA Super awesome cleaner works well.

 

[TemporaryCircumstances]

You're right! That's one reason I like going there. Plus that LA Super awesome cleaner works well.

Haha yeah see! It all works out

 

[p_rehbein]

The best shopping experience one can have!

 

[zeroturbulence]

Those huge stores, they're everywhere. Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. I remember going to the hardware store with my Dad Ioved the smell. It had a smell to me anyhow. We'd go about a mile from our house, someone would help us and we'd leave. Now if my Husband forces me to go to hardware heaven I feel lost.

We were in Lowe's one time looking for something. I asked before if we could just go up the road to tiny store? No we have to go to Lowe's. So four of us go to Lowe's, three of us get lost and end up calling one to find out where he is. What's the aisile number?

It's like that now. It seems these stores need to be super and huge. Can't someone just build a normal size store?

I don't like to shop. I do frequent Sam's Club, it's huge. When you need some help you have to hunt a person down. Then that person has to call someone on a walkie talkie, then you have to wait for that person .

I miss small stores!

This is so true. I was at Home Depot a couple months ago looking for a drip irrigation kit and so I thought it would be in the garden center, right?... nope. The guy at the garden center said it was on aisle 26, at the far end towards the back of the store and he told me to go back in the main store, make a left, go towards the back and then at the big aisle go right and I'll see aisle 26. I'm thinking no problem... well the aisles are not in numerical order! I saw 22, 23, 35, 34... I'm like WHAT?! It took me like 5 minutes to finally find aisle 26 and yes, his directions were correct but their number system was messed up, pfft!

Never did install the irrigation kit. Decided to return it and just stick to hand watering....

 

[Depleted]

Those huge stores, they're everywhere. Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. I remember going to the hardware store with my Dad Ioved the smell. It had a smell to me anyhow. We'd go about a mile from our house, someone would help us and we'd leave. Now if my Husband forces me to go to hardware heaven I feel lost.

We were in Lowe's one time looking for something. I asked before if we could just go up the road to tiny store? No we have to go to Lowe's. So four of us go to Lowe's, three of us get lost and end up calling one to find out where he is. What's the aisile number?

It's like that now. It seems these stores need to be super and huge. Can't someone just build a normal size store?

I don't like to shop. I do frequent Sam's Club, it's huge. When you need some help you have to hunt a person down. Then that person has to call someone on a walkie talkie, then you have to wait for that person .

I miss small stores!

It's not so much the huge box stores that bother me. It's the grocery store. The acoustics are horrible, hubby is hard of hearing, and we don't use cellphones. We're going past an aisle, I tell him "Hold up, I'm going to get ___," and head down the aisle, never to see him again.

Well, I do, but it usually requires walking past the last four aisle, and then the other way to the next four aisles, but he's not down any of them. Five minutes of searching for him and I hear a very sharp LYNN. He's on the other side of the end-of-the-aisle displays, annoyed I disappeared on him.

I thought I had it solved briefly, when he was in a wheelchair, (he's not fast in one), or in the electric cart. How can you lose one of those electric carts? The baskets are so big, turning down the aisle is a challenge. Apparently, because he's now the height of a dozen filled shopping carts.

I spend about a quarter of my time shopping searching for him. Stores need a lost-and-found for people. Better yet -- arm us with walkie talkies set just to our companions. But I know what would happen then. He'd tell he he's down the pasta aisle. Great! Where is that? I know the cookie aisle, the Fritos aisle and the paper products aisle. They have a pasta aisle?

 

[Depleted]

The best shopping experience one can have!

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Where's the post office and gas pumps? (The only stores I've seen like that were in Canada in towns with a population of 100 in the winter and 300 in the summer. Summer is lake season. lol)

 

[Depleted]

This is so true. I was at Home Depot a couple months ago looking for a drip irrigation kit and so I thought it would be in the garden center, right?... nope. The guy at the garden center said it was on aisle 26, at the far end towards the back of the store and he told me to go back in the main store, make a left, go towards the back and then at the big aisle go right and I'll see aisle 26. I'm thinking no problem... well the aisles are not in numerical order! I saw 22, 23, 35, 34... I'm like WHAT?! It took me like 5 minutes to finally find aisle 26 and yes, his directions were correct but their number system was messed up, pfft!

Never did install the irrigation kit. Decided to return it and just stick to hand watering....

If I walk a mile in a maze to find and buy something, I'm going to use it if it kills me. lol

 

[Fenner]

This is so true. I was at Home Depot a couple months ago looking for a drip irrigation kit and so I thought it would be in the garden center, right?... nope. The guy at the garden center said it was on aisle 26, at the far end towards the back of the store and he told me to go back in the main store, make a left, go towards the back and then at the big aisle go right and I'll see aisle 26. I'm thinking no problem... well the aisles are not in numerical order! I saw 22, 23, 35, 34... I'm like WHAT?! It took me like 5 minutes to finally find aisle 26 and yes, his directions were correct but their number system was messed up, pfft!

Never did install the irrigation kit. Decided to return it and just stick to hand watering....

I'm glad you found someone to help you at Home depot.

 

[Fenner]

The best shopping experience one can have!

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There is a General store like this by my Aunt's house, an hour away from me. They've turned part of it into a restaurant. It's a neat place.

 

[1LonelyKnight]

Retail is market driven. That means consumerism and demand (or enticed demand) drive what big retail does. Wal-Mart has over 4,400 stores and is the number one importer from China, Target and Home Depot follow right behind. Serving 300 million people with seemingly insatiable appetite for that new or next widget, gadget or whatchamacallit is a big task. The port cities, the distribution center's, the trucking and handling of these products requires lots of computing and Information Technology power.

As a child do you remember that new housing development, the new apartment complexes, the new Housing and Urban development projects, new roads and highways, schools, churches and Medical and Sports center's? That's why stores and government got so big.

A ten percent reduction in consumer purchases would eliminate most profitability from fast food, junk food and the retail shops that have become so large. Is God speaking to you / us in this, that we may being called to give up ten percent here and use it for greater good?

 

[Depleted]

Retail is market driven. That means consumerism and demand (or enticed demand) drive what big retail does. Wal-Mart has over 4,400 stores and is the number one importer from China, Target and Home Depot follow right behind. Serving 300 million people with seemingly insatiable appetite for that new or next widget, gadget or whatchamacallit is a big task. The port cities, the distribution center's, the trucking and handling of these products requires lots of computing and Information Technology power.

As a child do you remember that new housing development, the new apartment complexes, the new Housing and Urban development projects, new roads and highways, schools, churches and Medical and Sports center's? That's why stores and government got so big.

A ten percent reduction in consumer purchases would eliminate most profitability from fast food, junk food and the retail shops that have become so large. Is God speaking to you / us in this, that we may being called to give up ten percent here and use it for greater good?

Since the mom and pop hardware stores are open 24 hours a week, but no two hours connected, (I have one around the corner, but 75% of the time I walk there, it's closed, and I go during normal business hours), no. God isn't telling me anything about avoiding getting a threshold, a new part for a lamp, a new sprinkler head for my garden hose, or a new power strip because the old one died.

Really? God's teaching you about consumerism? I would have loved him as a prof in college, (Communications, so got lots of marketing courses, lol), but he's got bigger lessons for me than how-to-keep-my-bedroom-lamp-working.

 

[LiJo]

Those huge stores, they're everywhere. Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc. I remember going to the hardware store with my Dad Ioved the smell. It had a smell to me anyhow. We'd go about a mile from our house, someone would help us and we'd leave. Now if my Husband forces me to go to hardware heaven I feel lost.

We were in Lowe's one time looking for something. I asked before if we could just go up the road to tiny store? No we have to go to Lowe's. So four of us go to Lowe's, three of us get lost and end up calling one to find out where he is. What's the aisile number?

It's like that now. It seems these stores need to be super and huge. Can't someone just build a normal size store?

I don't like to shop. I do frequent Sam's Club, it's huge. When you need some help you have to hunt a person down. Then that person has to call someone on a walkie talkie, then you have to wait for that person .

I miss small stores!

In total agreement with you!! I love your small mom and pop stores, they are so charming. Recently Utah took me to a store in his town and I love the atmosphere. Everyone knows each other and it was so inviting.

Your Super Walmart is one of the worse store for me, finding someone to assist you is equivalent to getting a root canal.

 

[Fenner]

In total agreement with you!! I love your small mom and pop stores, they are so charming. Recently Utah took me to a store in his town and I love the atmosphere. Everyone knows each other and it was so inviting.

Your Super Walmart is one of the worse store for me, finding someone to assist you is equivalent to getting a root canal.

It is inviting to go in those stores. It's nice to make those connections too. I take my dog to a local dog wash. It's nice to go there because they know us and know what we need and their really friendly. It's rare to find that these day's.

 

[emjcares]

In total agreement with you!! I love your small mom and pop stores, they are so charming. Recently Utah took me to a store in his town and I love the atmosphere. Everyone knows each other and it was so inviting.

Your Super Walmart is one of the worse store for me, finding someone to assist you is equivalent to getting a root canal.

Lol. Isn't that one of their blue-light specials or something?

It's hard to find the help when the help can't find their way.

Why don't they just widen the aisles so you can drive-thru?

It's funny (not really though) how people don't need help finding stuff when they're trampling each other to death the Friday after Thanksgiving.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I love it when I find small stores cramped with books
Came by one in Scotland: Bookcases from floor to roof on all walls, two rooms.
Books in crates in front of them. Books in stacks on top of the crates.... taller than me.

Maybe not ideal for the books... but still a cool place

 

[Fenner]

Retail is market driven. That means consumerism and demand (or enticed demand) drive what big retail does. Wal-Mart has over 4,400 stores and is the number one importer from China, Target and Home Depot follow right behind. Serving 300 million people with seemingly insatiable appetite for that new or next widget, gadget or whatchamacallit is a big task. The port cities, the distribution center's, the trucking and handling of these products requires lots of computing and Information Technology power.

As a child do you remember that new housing development, the new apartment complexes, the new Housing and Urban development projects, new roads and highways, schools, churches and Medical and Sports center's? That's why stores and government got so big.

A ten percent reduction in consumer purchases would eliminate most profitability from fast food, junk food and the retail shops that have become so large. Is God speaking to you / us in this, that we may being called to give up ten percent here and use it for greater good?

Good observation and something I didn't think about when I posted this. Most of us could do with less.

 

[LiJo]

Lol. Isn't that one of their blue-light specials or something?

It's hard to find the help when the help can't find their way.

Why don't they just widen the aisles so you can drive-thru?

It's funny (not really though) how people don't need help finding stuff when they're trampling each other to death the Friday after Thanksgiving.

I think the Blue Light Specials are at KMart, haven't been there in years. lol

Shopping on Black Friday? I did it once and never again, I'd rather get hit with a 2X4. People are crazy!! They're shopping to celebrate Christ's birthday and acting like savages.