FabSwingers.com forum: Bring back proper shops!

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I miss them. The newsagents with the papers along the counter. The window full of paperbacks and model kits. Shops in town with those fronts full of goods and a foyer with more windows and more goods. Odd shops that sold everything from shaving brushes, cut-throat razors and all sorts of knick-knacks. Clothing shops with drawers full of shirts or ties....or do you just prefer it all on-line?

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"I miss them. The newsagents with the papers along the counter. The window full of paperbacks and model kits. Shops in town with those fronts full of goods and a foyer with more windows and more goods. Odd shops that sold everything from shaving brushes, cut-throat razors and all sorts of knick-knacks. Clothing shops with drawers full of shirts or ties....or do you just prefer it all on-line?"
Im with you proper shops where they know your name x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

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By *illy_the_tvTV/TS
over a year ago

hoorn, Netherlands

Most purchases I have I'll make online but I'll always buy clothes in a shop so I can try them on. Nothing worse that buying something online to find out that it's the wrong size or the fit is.different that you expected and having to fanny around trying to return it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now."

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!"

I wouldn't know, proper shops were before my time really.

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

I love the cobblers. Dunno who buys all the shit in there but it’s amazing. All the racks of plastic watch straps. Hundreds of different tops to go on your keys. Bags that no one ever buys. A million different variations of trolley tokens. Really naff passport covers, dog tags, key rings.

At least I know where to buy a shopping trolley for when I get really really old

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!

I wouldn't know, proper shops were before my time really."

They made life so much better.

Ever seen the four candles sketch? That was like a proper shop!

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

Will they have half day closing on a Wednesday?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Will they have half day closing on a Wednesday? "

Absolutely. Cuts down on our want for everything 24/7.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use a local timber yard that closes for an hour every day for lunch.Thats super rare these days.

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

Dont really miss shops, as i buy everything online, only go for food shops.

only thing i miss was sweet shops, sadly too many complain about sugar intake, but the kids back then were not fat like todays and had better teeth.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I use a local timber yard that closes for an hour every day for lunch.Thats super rare these days."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Dont really miss shops, as i buy everything online, only go for food shops.

only thing i miss was sweet shops, sadly too many complain about sugar intake, but the kids back then were not fat like todays and had better teeth."

Cos they had to walk to the shop!

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

if the majority wanted proper shops we would have them. There isn't the demand since out of town mega stores became popular

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Dont really miss shops, as i buy everything online, only go for food shops.

only thing i miss was sweet shops, sadly too many complain about sugar intake, but the kids back then were not fat like todays and had better teeth.

Cos they had to walk to the shop!"

and they had sweets once a week not once a day

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Cos they had to walk to the shop!

and they had sweets once a week not once a day"

Shops helped regulate ourselves .

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Shops from where I’m from you used to park your donkey out front wander in with a big list and stand behind the counter while the shop keeper gets it for you. You then have a meal in the attached restaurant/bar and let the donkey carry you home while d*unk.

Ah the good old days.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Have donkeys gone out of fashion?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you made I want to be able to buy whatever I want from the internet and expect it to be delivered to my door the same day, it’s 2019 not 1919

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

I live in Bristol and can see loads of shops like that from my window.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"Have donkeys gone out of fashion?"

Not seen any outside Tesco’s in a while so quite possibly

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

I prefer a supermarket where i can get everything in a trolley and just push it to the car. My life is too busy to be queuing up in several shops

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Have donkeys gone out of fashion?"

Can still be seen wandering around N7 7AJ every other weekend

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I feel a certain nostalgia for the kind of shops that were in our town when I was a kid in the sixties. The Home and Colonial Stores. Shoe shops where the assistant had to climb a ladder to get a the shoe box down, the awning drawn down on sunny afternoons, wooden floorboards in the gents outfitters, Thursday afternoon closing, 4pm closing on Saturday and absolutely no opening on Sunday

However I like being able to order a watering can on Monday evening and be using it in my greenhouse on Wednesday morning without having to leave my house too

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By *illy2018TV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

Have donkeys gone out of fashion?

A guy in America got arrested for having I EAT ASS on his rear screen..maybe they,ve been eaten.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Convenience is desirable. But look where we are now. Up to our necks in rubbish.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shops from where I’m from you used to park your donkey out front wander in with a big list and stand behind the counter while the shop keeper gets it for you. You then have a meal in the attached restaurant/bar and let the donkey carry you home while d*unk.

Ah the good old days.

Your not from around these parts .I can tell.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Convenience is desirable. But look where we are now. Up to our necks in rubbish."

It's all the bullshit packaging that boils my piss.Its often unnecessary .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss the old days. I was talking to my little girl today about ice lollies and asked which was her favourite, she said hers was the pink pig foot, was like hi mean a big foot? She's like no a PIG FOOT daddy...! After laughing uncontrollably fur fvr minutes I've still no idea what she means but it made me think of those beautiful old pink foot lollies - marketing-wise on paper they look like suicide, who'd expect ppl to want to suck in a big old foot...?

Carry on, as you were, apologies for the disturbance....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I miss the old days. I was talking to my little girl today about ice lollies and asked which was her favourite, she said hers was the pink pig foot, was like hi mean a big foot? She's like no a PIG FOOT daddy...! After laughing uncontrollably fur fvr minutes I've still no idea what she means but it made me think of those beautiful old pink foot lollies - marketing-wise on paper they look like suicide, who'd expect ppl to want to suck in a big old foot...?

Carry on, as you were, apologies for the disturbance....

Hi?

Do you mean*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!

I wouldn't know, proper shops were before my time really."

Not really, they will have been around in your younger days, I remember shops of this kind very well and so do both my brothers from their childhood. They're currently 39 and 37.

It all depends on how parents treated a person really, my own gave us the freedom we yearned for to travel to town by ourselves as kids and explore and we rarely ran into trouble.

Though someone with parents who wrapped them in cotton wool a tad more probably wouldn't have headed into town by themselves till their teens, which in your case would mean the later 90s, in the age of town centres having a greater proportion of d*unks, smackheads and general layabouts causing grief. And less "proper shops" anyway.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

No we don't...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think they used to be shops where you could buy Liverpool league trophy winners replicas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!

I wouldn't know, proper shops were before my time really.

Not really, they will have been around in your younger days, I remember shops of this kind very well and so do both my brothers from their childhood. They're currently 39 and 37.

It all depends on how parents treated a person really, my own gave us the freedom we yearned for to travel to town by ourselves as kids and explore and we rarely ran into trouble.

However while I remember Proper Shops vividly, I clearly don't remember that my brothers are both still to have their birthdays this year, which actually makes them still 38 and 36.... Oops!

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Very rare I buy anything online. I want to try before I buy. You get something online, piss about arranging delivery then decide its not what it says on the tin so you piss about again getting it returned.

I can go in town on a Saturday morning (on my own thats is), and be in and out in half an hour. And the parking is free.

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By *entleman_spyMan
over a year ago

nearby

Online for me ... every time. I can do it from work get it the next day at worst and not have to deal with sales people. I went in to a modelling shop the other to see what I might what and was bugged constantly by the girl in there trying to be helpful, but in reality just being a pain.

I needed something for a party this Christmas, ordered it on amazon now, and it was at my dads before I was 2 hours later.

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By *xycpl699Couple
over a year ago

kilmarnock

"I think they used to be shops where you could buy Liverpool league trophy winners replicas"
that's a bit below the belt. personally I thought they did great. Hollie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's sad shops are dying out everywhere.. In time there will be nothing left on our streets, but barbers, takeaways and nail bars.

This is because of the Internet and places like Tesco and Morrisons where they sell everthing in one place.

I'm a salesman myself and everyday I lose sales because of the Internet and if people see something online and it looks the same (even if it's not) and they can get it for a couple of quid less, then the Internet is where they will take their chance.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's sad shops are dying out everywhere.. In time there will be nothing left on our streets, but barbers, takeaways and nail bars.

This is because of the Internet and places like Tesco and Morrisons where they sell everthing in one place.

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By *ibblingnewtWoman
over a year ago

by the sea

“Cut throat razors freshly sharpened ! Got some lively ones for you Mr Sweeny I have”

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I prefer shops/shopping areas that aren't identikit of each other - the same chains - and where service is really important to them. Very happy to visit several shops in order to get what I want, rather than a larger supermarket etc.

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By *entakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

"I don't like the shopping experience, towns near me are unpleasant places. I get what I need online now.

Bet they didn't used to be with proper shops!

I wouldn't know, proper shops were before my time really."

It's one of the things I really miss about working in London after I left uni, my office was in Charing Cross and during lunchtimes and after work I'd go into Soho to shop for clothes, vinyl records etc from the various shops and stalls... Maybe kill time on Denmark Street in the musical instrument shops testing out the guitars and synths. You'd get to know the people working in the various places you liked. Things were way more sociable.

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By *-and-mCouple
over a year ago

Carlisle

People need to support their local independent shops as rents are high and otherwise they will all disappear from our towns altogether!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People need to support their local independent shops as rents are high and otherwise they will all disappear from our towns altogether! "

Too late they will disapear in time

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

Still buy as much as possible from "proper shops" and have only ever booked flights on the interweb.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I miss them. The newsagents with the papers along the counter. The window full of paperbacks and model kits. Shops in town with those fronts full of goods and a foyer with more windows and more goods. Odd shops that sold everything from shaving brushes, cut-throat razors and all sorts of knick-knacks. Clothing shops with drawers full of shirts or ties....or do you just prefer it all on-line?Im with you proper shops where they know your name x"

oh ellooo Agnus, in for another pair of thermal knickers are you

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"I miss them. The newsagents with the papers along the counter. The window full of paperbacks and model kits. Shops in town with those fronts full of goods and a foyer with more windows and more goods. Odd shops that sold everything from shaving brushes, cut-throat razors and all sorts of knick-knacks. Clothing shops with drawers full of shirts or ties....or do you just prefer it all on-line?Im with you proper shops where they know your name x

oh ellooo Agnus, in for another pair of thermal knickers are you

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ha

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Proper shops are nostalgic, but how many people go in, have a poke around, then walk out and see how much they can save by getting it online?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Proper shops are nostalgic, but how many people go in, have a poke around, then walk out and see how much they can save by getting it online? "

Well not me, I have never shopped online.. But yes I have noticed that most do that now.

Many times I have had people looking at my products and whilst we are chatting they're searching on E~bay for a better price.

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