Question for today: which shop do you know best?

[innocent_lex]

For me it's John Lewis, which is a UK department store. I know where to go for most things in my local store, I know what I want and whether they'll have it, I know what to look out for in terms of bargains, I often wander in just to gaze at things that I want but know I can't justify buying for months (if ever), and I like that when people offer to help me they do actually help.

When I first thought about this, my thinking automatically went to the supermarket. But actually my local supermarkets are constantly moving things around and frequently stop stocking things that I want to buy, so I can't say I know it very well at all.

Comments

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

No matter when I go to supermarkets, they always seem to have those big rolling shelves out full of stuff to restock the actual shelves, and they're always in the way of the things I want to get to. The staff give me such dirty looks when I shift them out of my way, but having asked them to move and they don't? Well, I turn into a self-service customer.

Ah, parking! I've actually stopped going to one of the big supermarkets that has lots of things I find useful simply because the bad parking means I end up with lots of pain just because of the distance I have to go with a full trolley.

Another frustration for me is the toddlers and young kids allowed to just wander about with no parent in sight to stop them from running in front of someone's fully-loaded trolley. Parents, if you wouldn't let your child run about on a road in front of cars, why let them run about in front of heavy vehicles that can do significant damage to a v. small person? I can't stop my trolley on a whim, y'know.