Where do you shop for stuff?

[katlupe]

I buy a lot on Amazon. I do purchase off other online sites as well, Walmart online, Netrition, Keto Chow, LMNT, Redmond Real Salt, eBay, others that I can't think of right now. Locally I grocery shop mainly at Walmart because they have the stuff I want. Aldis and Price Chopper occasionally. The little shops along the downtown area I live are more like boutique type stores and don't sell the kind of food or other items I use. Online I can get whatever I want, size, color, style, etc. I can find it.

 

[Murrmurr]

We still have Malls here .... and enormous Retail parks

This map marks all the abandoned shopping malls in the US, plus a few closed US foreign malls, as of 2017...


These empty, rotting malls and shopping centers are occupying millions of acres of land. And millions of Americans are asking their state governments to completely graze certain ones to make room for farmland, and repurposed the thousands of others to house the homeless and/or allow small private business collectives to take them over. (crickets)

 

[EmptyCup]

I am choosy regarding fresh fruit and vegetables and go to several markets to find the best. I used to have a large garden, but no longer want to use all the required water while living in a drought stricken desert.
I also like thrift stores and antique malls. I have a rule though - If I get a thing I get rid of a thing. I don’t like clutter.
And there is always the great Costco. Why does it always seem that people are in a frenzy there (IKEA too). Hurry, hurry, hurry!

 

[Medusa]

Wegmans, one other grocery store, and Amazon, mostly.

 

[Muskrat]

I shop the grocery store…dollar tree and thrift stores. I use lowes and home depot as needed. Several times a year will need something I purchase online.

 

[Magna-Carta]

Not so many big shopping centres here. The main one in Aberdeen city centre is Union Square which sits between the railway station, the bus depot and the harbour. It has mainly clothing stores and cafés. Also in the centre is the Bon Accord centre and the smaller Trinity centre. They tend to have smaller specialist shops.

Inside Union Square
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I’ve always liked this type of thing for some reason. A mix of different architecture, old and new and in any of its forms. Whether it be somewhere to shop; somewhere to eat, or somewhere to jump on a train.

 

[moviequeen1]

There isn't a mall close to where I live,mostly are in the burbs
I go to Kohl's to buy my New Balance walking shoes, local grocery stores e.g Price Rite, Tops, local co op for groceries. I go to Target for either grocery items,books{usually 20% off}$ store -pens/paper/ cards/ cookies
Walgreens for my supplements e.g Calcium,Vitamin C,multidose Vitamin,any prescription
Amazon for books, lamps

 

[JustDave]

Where I find the best buy. I'm a fan of ebay, and for groceries it's Aldis first and then Walmart.

 

[JustDave]

This map marks all the abandoned shopping malls in the US, plus a few closed US foreign malls, as of 2017...
View attachment 276474

These empty, rotting malls and shopping centers are occupying millions of acres of land. And millions of Americans are asking their state governments to completely graze certain ones to make room for farmland, and repurposed the thousands of others to house the homeless and/or allow small private business collectives to take them over. (crickets)

Malls were fun while they lasted, but they got kind of redundant, with the same outlets over and over again, Radio Shack, Penny's, Victoria's Secrets, Cinnabon, and restaurant areas, devoted to MacDonald's, Taco Bell, and all the usual fast food outlets. Usually, it was more about the experience than finding what you needed. They were interesting, but they housed almost every outlet that was headed for oblivion with the coming of the digital age. It was a grandiose way of marketing that outdid itself with its own grandiosity.

 

[Murrmurr]

Malls were fun while they lasted, but they got kind of redundant, with the same outlets over and over again, Radio Shack, Penny's, Victoria's Secrets, Cinnabon, and restaurant areas, devoted to MacDonald's, Taco Bell, and all the usual fast food outlets. Usually, it was more about the experience than finding what you needed. They were interesting, but they housed almost every outlet that was headed for oblivion with the coming of the digital age. It was a grandiose way of marketing that outdid itself with its own grandiosity.

Yeah, while one person's salary was enough to raise a family on, malls made $millions. But as they multiplied, and got bigger and more grand, people's salaries were worth less and less until one salary wasn't enough to keep their lights on and their refrigerators full.

I remember our town's first mall, and cruising the parking lot in my '63 Falcon convertible every Friday and Saturday night, along with hundreds of other teenagers with cars. Back then, teenagers were conscientious enough to wait until after all the stores closed....or most of them. I think Penny's stayed open til 9, and the pizza place and cinema were open til 10.

Good times.