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

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sassylady

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Those old store buildings with the mix of odors from the past 100 years and the creaking wood floors. I can't remember the last time I was in one like that. They're all big chain stores now.
 
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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.
IDK. I can find someone to give me root canal. I can't find someone to assist me in a Walmart, unless fellow shoppers ount. lol
 

mar09

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The best shopping experience one can have!

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Is that where u live? here, there are ShoeMarts, wc have become one of the more popular 'store' destinations, but still lots of this:

from Exploring Philippine Farmers' Markets with an Eye Towards the Twin Cities | Simple, Good and Tasty

and this:

(... did u notice the vendor(s) busy on their celphones?)
One slowdown in going to wet markets however, is as u buy from the fruit stand, u pay and wait for ur change. When u stop at some meat stall, u pay and wait for change, at the fish stall, u do the same... and u have no receipts so better compute quick in ur mind as u carry a basket that gets heavier unless u choose to unload in ur vehicle first, then return-).

Ah, and there are still the sari-sari stores everywhere.

A sari-sari store, or neighborhood variety store, is a convenience store found in the Philippines. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety".
 

mar09

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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!
Hi fenner,
Used to accompany my sis to SMs (shoemart mall here) after she started to work and i was still studying. I cant understand how patient, and how long she could last walking around searching for what she needs or wants. I wud sit and wait in a corner after a while, and still go home w/ hurting feet.
 

mar09

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One slowdown in going to wet markets ...

Did i mean downtime or some other word??
 

Fenner

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Hi fenner,
Used to accompany my sis to SMs (shoemart mall here) after she started to work and i was still studying. I cant understand how patient, and how long she could last walking around searching for what she needs or wants. I wud sit and wait in a corner after a while, and still go home w/ hurting feet.

My Aunt shops like that too. I don't go shopping with her much anymore, I don't have the patience. When she visits we do go to antique stores, at least they have interesting things to look at.