[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

Sports-Direct was a good place to shop in, like, 2003.

I like some of the clothes there.

But I find clothes shopping just to be an incredibly boring idea.

[caprimint]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

The greatest supermarket of all time I'll have you know

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by caprimint

The greatest supermarket of all time I'll have you know

[Ammi]

…it’s quite something that IKEA hasn’t even had a toe-in as probably the most nightmare shop ever to walk around/browse…

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…it’s quite something that IKEA hasn’t even had a toe-in as probably the most nightmare shop ever to walk around/browse…

I actually enjoy IKEA. But not on a weekend day, when it’s busy.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

I actually enjoy IKEA. But not on a weekend day, when it’s busy.

…I quite like the kitchen gadgets and bits toward the end of the ‘shopping experience’ but it’s like having to have a whole weekend break in there to get to those sections that I tend to browse…and then if I do buy anything…?…I’m so happy with my little bargain buy until I get to the checking out area and look at those crates and trolley loads and queues etc… and then look at my one or two little bits in hand…

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I quite like the kitchen gadgets and bits toward the end of the ‘shopping experience’ but it’s like having to have a whole weekend break in there to get to those sections that I tend to browse…and then if I do buy anything…?…I’m so happy with my little bargain buy until I get to the checking out area and look at those crates and trolley loads and queues etc… and then look at my one or two little bits in hand…

That’s why I tend to go on a week day mid afternoon. A lot quieter.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

That’s why I tend to go on a week day mid afternoon. A lot quieter.

…my nearest Ikea is probably around an hour and a half -ish away…maybe a bit more with traffic sometimes so it does tend to be a weekend break for me if I ever go…which is virtually never unless someone invites me to tag along with them …and then I can find myself saying yes while all of my senses are screaming no….

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…it’s quite something that IKEA hasn’t even had a toe-in as probably the most nightmare shop ever to walk around/browse…

Hate IKEA with a vengence, not been back since we tried to get a bed for our eldest as a child and he is now 28

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Hate IKEA with a vengence, not been back since we tried to get a bed for our eldest as a child and he is now 28

…and still sleeping in that bed by gum…!!!!!!!!!!…..


https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/gonatt-...hite-90467089/

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…and still sleeping in that bed by gum…!!!!!!!!!!…..


https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/gonatt-...hite-90467089/

Too right !

[Redway]

When it comes to food-shopping, all shops have their purpose, and I imagine people of dual relative cultures know that more than most. On the one hand, you’ve got to do your Italian, Chinese or Afro-Caribbean shopping somewhere-else but you’ve also got to reckon with the more international/Western market for everything-else. You need both your plantain and your shredded wheat. Your bog-roll and your ogiri-egusi. Your yellow garri and your milk. So dipping in and out of different shops is just the done thing, how it is, automatically. What I’ll say for myself is that I’d rather go to anywhere but Tesco. Again, I find them a bit generic and bland, even-though perfectly fine otherwise. I don’t dislike Tesco but I’d rather choose one of the more unique, less overly commercialised shops.