Shops of yesteryear
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Also, books from online shops often arrived creased or with a bent spine. In a book shop you can make sure it's pristine.
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@66Mustang Yes! This! The amount of times I've had a book come damaged and it's readable but it's not the same.1
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Yep I've had that with a couple of books and they know that you will realise that it's not worth the time to send them back so you keep them.2
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I started to think of all the shops that I used to go to which are gone now, and after reading the other posts it seems a shame that so many are now a distant past.
Woolworths my mum used to take me an I would go to the biscuits counter and be greeted every week with hello are you here for the broken ones. Yes please, I've put a few waffer ones in there for you. That's 1d please. See you next week. the shop people knew there customers and I was 6 at the time and felt very grown up because she knew me.0 -
Kwik Save ... they did a jar of day-glo orange cheese spread that no modern equivalent can match up to for taste
Lo Cost
Freeman Hardy & Willis
Tandy
Barratts
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Not a shop but,
they're getting rid of lilt. I didn't realise until very recently
it's becoming a flavour of fanta. I saw the bottles the other day that said "Fanta" but a small corner said "formerly Lilt". Lilt drink brand to be scrapped and renamed Fanta - BBC News 0 -
I've always liked Lilt it's such a nice drink.0
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I remember Woolworths near mine when it closed. All the memories I had there.
Anyone remember netto ? That just vanished lol
And of course blockbuster for games and dvds, loved it. Streaming wiped blockbuster from the face of the earth 😳
Is fitness first gym still around?0 -
I was often in blockbusters renting new films it was a good way of seeing them first before deciding to buy them.0
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When i think of shops from yesterday I have a few spring to mind. Preston, a supermarket that was in our high street. C&A, loved their clothes, obviously Woolies, just great for, well everything and there is another one but my brains gone into fog moment lol 😆0
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There's apparently still a single blockbuster in the States last I checked.
They really did not adapt fast enough to the rise of internet use.0 -
Good ol' Woolies, C&A (They still have stores in Europe), Debenhams, yes, they're online, but it's not the same. Littlewoods shops & BHS. Dolcis, along with Freeman, Hardy & Willis and Lilley & Skinner. Plummers and Tyrell & Green, but they may have been local to me at the time. But, our high streets aren't the same & it's a right shame.
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Related to how this topic started. It seems B&M has come to an agreement to buy around 50 Wilko stores. That still leaves about ~350 closing down though, also I imagine those 50ish stores will be rebranded to B&M.0
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Just remembered JJB Sport. Back in the day when we all wore tracksuit bottoms and astro-turf boots for everyday tasks...
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I think sportswear is coming back in isn't it @OverlyAnxious ?
I'm sure I walk further with the dog in my jeans and jumper than some of the people in full sports gear.1 -
I live in shorts all year round because of the Fibro and not liking clothes touching mewoodbine said:Must admit I wear shorts all summer especially around the house and garden.
Quite often boxers and a t-shirt. I have been known to pop my wife down street in boxers.
Only the other week a friend of my wife's messaged her ... I know why *** looked different ... he had shorts on 0 -
I miss the parade of shops we used to have. Not really the big well known stores but the individual ones, privately owned. Where I lived there was a parade that had a proper ironmongers, a greengrocer, butcher, haberdashery, hairdresser, newsagent (2 others I can't remember because it was 50 or so years ago!). My son asked me the other day, what on earth is an ironmonger. Remember the smell of them as you walked in. That pink paraffin, all the mongery (lol) and tools and stuff. In all those shops everything was superb quality. If I look at google street view now at the same place, most of them are blocked off and turned to residential. There is a "convenience" store and a barbers shop, but other than that there's nothing useful to the community at all. An office that doesn't do anything and an expired betting shop. So, so sad. Everyone used to meet their neighbours there and bump into eachother for a chat whilst buying cabbages or chops.0
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It is sad now-a-days to see so many shop premises empty or boarded up high streets were often very busy places once.0
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Thought of another, MacFisheries. Sick of prepacked fish, the supermarkets took over with fresh fish counters & butchery counters, now, at least the supermarkets around me, have closed them & it is all prepacked. I live near to the coast, trying to get fresh fish is crazy! At least there are still a few independent butchers around.
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Same here @JessieJ they have closed the fish counters and meat counters in almost all of my local supermarkets. The only relatively local ones are Waitrose, which is dear, and Morrisons, which for us is a half hour drive.
We have started going to the local butcher for meat recently since we have started eating less so we can afford to buy nicer stuff and it makes a big difference in quality compared to the supermarket.0
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