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Anyone know those really tiny shops that sell second-hand books? The ones that stock nothing written after about 1970, and with truly bewildering opening hours? Usually staffed by someone who - by any reasonable criteria - is in fact dead? I love those. All other shopping I have to do gritting my teeth. I can eat and drink in public though.

I'll check the newspapers for that .

Odd. I like shopping.

Everything is nice and organized into set patterns, with each set having appropriate subsets depending on their location. It's nice exercise so long as no one excessively loud or rude is around. I usually take my time and look through everything to make sure I don't miss anything I might like if I'm just going shopping for general supplies. And since most of the stores around here are opened twenty four hours a day now, I can go whenever I like.

When something is out of stock though, it annoys me to no end. It's a big open space of nothingness in the middle of everything else.

i enjoy going to small stores. it gets me out of the house and plus i like buying, rather my parents buy them, random things that i've never heard of before.

I like big stores where no one disturbs me. small stores often have sales people following you around asking if you need help. If i needed help i would ask.

I hate all the big supermarkets as i have a phobia of high ceilings and i hate packed shops

I kind of hate stores - but I like shopping. What I really hate about stores are the cashiers. I sort of have a phobia of cashiers. They just seem daunting to me because they're just more of these unnecessary people that I don't want to interact with or deal with at all. And it's annoying because they really stand in the way of what I want to buy.

I wish more stores had self-checkouts.

also, electric train or other hobbie shops by this description <we have one in town that is only open wednesday through saturday from ten am to four or five pm under regular conditions> with incredibly knowledgeable old people and very comfortable chairs and usually a cat

i want to get into electric/model trains but i want to get house with a big enough garage first..that's always been a hobby i'd like to get into..

Shopping... Depends on what I'm shopping for. If it's groceries, I'll pass unless I have a list. Makes it so much easier to find what I need, cross it off and move on, and I the only time I have to wait is when I reach the cash register. When it comes to fun stuff, like games though, it's a lot better. Especially if I can do it online. And then there's books. Much prefer to shop for those in person, even if I'm more likely to find it on Amazon. Can't say wether it's the scent or the silence or just the fact that I'm surrounded by so much to read, but online just can't compare.

They're not cost effective. Everything that made those stores so nice to shop in is a waste of money, in comparison to the running costs of modern stores(even after you factor in the cost of power, new security/survaliance systems, personel to run them, and the losses for all the shoplifting they do very little to actually prevent).

No such thing. Seriously, I can tell you that any house you can afford, your model train hobby will outgrow it. Doesn't matter how big the house is, if your income allows for that house, it will also, inevetably, allow for growth of your trains beyond anything you ever could have planned for.

The same can be said for any hobby though, really. Computer games, firearms, anime, hot rods, hot wheels, you keep up with something, continually adding a little here and there, and before you know it you'll have old hardware/spent cases/DVDs/spark plugs/toy cars everywhere.

garden trains ftw

Before I had a child who prefers being awake during the day and sleeping at night, I used to be a real late-night person. I always went to the 24-hour grocery store in the middle of the night because it was quiet and empty and I could actually get my shopping done without having to interact with too many people.

I also love shopping online because I can get assistance if I want/need it, but nobody rushes up to me and asks "can I help you with anything?" the second I start looking at something.

I've worked in retail before, and stores are "my enemy" because it's just an annoying line of work. Customers have some odd expectation that you'll give a f**k about them. They have the distorted expectation that you'll know something about the merchandise when they usually know more than I do. The stores I've worked at are not places I'd shop at (because I have no interest in clothes) unless all my clothes were falling apart. I don't find going shopping a relaxing way to pass the time but rather a chore I sometimes have to take care of and get over with as quickly as possible. I find the vapid consumerist mindset, artificial environment, and fake friendliness of many of the employees to go directly against my values and beliefs.

By the way, it's interesting that you mentioned Schnucks since they're headquartered right here in St. Louis. I don't know where else they have them, but I don't think it extends beyond the Midwest.

I like going very early in the morning and prefer few or no sales people except at the registers. The phrase "can I help you with anything?" freaks me out and would prefer to be left alone and I avoid stores where the sales people are overly helpful

Best invention ever:

Self check out at Wal-Mart.

I hate it when it's crowded. In summer when the tourists are here the supermarkets are so terrible my mother tries to avoid going shopping herself and she's NT. I don't like it when there's people everywhere and noise and children screaming (a three year old's squeal goes through me like a dentist's drill) and everything's moving and the tannoy is booming and wherever you stand you're in someone's way. Half an hour of that will leave me exhausted for the rest of the day, so I usually insist on staying in the car or just don't go at all, which means she has to do it all on her own :\

Seconded. It's the electronics stores that do it here. I appreciate you're paid to do that, mister, but I'll buy if I want to buy and not otherwise, now let me look at these games in peace!

I'm kind of scared of some small shops though because they are SO small. I like to feel unobserved when I'm browsing and there's this little music shop in my town that's barely bigger than a closet inside; for six years since we moved here I didn't dare go in, which is a big shame because when I finally dared it late last year I found they stocked all the weird and wonderful rock and metal artists I like! Now if the guy would stop saying "Hi, what's up? Nice day, huh? Haven't seen you for a while. How's your dad?" etc. and just read the paper or something while I look through the stacks, I'd be a happy bunny

I also worked in a shop once. A big chain store (WH Smiths). NEVER AGAIN.