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If you could live very close to one shop, which would it be?

237 replies

JMSA · 31/01/2026 14:19

I can’t lie, Home Bargains. I just love it.

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FrozenFebruary · 02/02/2026 02:32

lazyarse123 · 31/01/2026 18:45

Yes Clifton Moor at York. 2 bacon buttiess and 2 lattes £7.40.
It's not the Ritz but nice enough.

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Can't even get 2 lattes for that here (SE obviously)

Monty27 · 02/02/2026 02:07

JMSA · 31/01/2026 14:19

I can’t lie, Home Bargains. I just love it.

It kinda makes sense 😲😝😆

SpiritOfEcstasy · 02/02/2026 02:03

Waitrose. I live in Ireland now and miss it so much 🙁

5foot5 · 02/02/2026 00:35

Another Booths lover here.

Perhaps it is fortunate that our nearest one is just over 10 miles away. Close enough to go occasionally for something special or a self indulgent wander; too far to be our regular shopping venue.

I usually find John Lewis a bit of a let down actually
We have a big one about half an hour's drive away and sometimes think "Oh yes, I bet John Lewis will have that." But we usually find that while they appear to have a good choice, it usually turns out that what they have is either ridiculously expensive (looking at you luggage department) or what you want might be on display but they don't actually have it in stock you still have to order it online (looking at you lighting).

LibertyLily · 02/02/2026 00:14

Another vote for Liberty which has been my favourite store for ever (you'd never guess it from my name, lol!), as much for the architecture and whole experience as anything else 😍

Otherwise M&S food hall or Waterstones.

Our nearest supermarket is Waitrose (4 minutes drive) which is where we shop most of the time. There's a small Waterstones there too, which is handy! Our nearest M&S with a huge food hall is about 20 minutes drive.

OneRoseLion · 01/02/2026 23:53

Home bargains

MissMarplesKnittingNeedles · 01/02/2026 23:53

Booths. I’d be bankrupt, but it would have been worth it.

Thisgirlcandance · 01/02/2026 23:43

Waterstones. The ones with a cafe within it.

JaceLancs · 01/02/2026 22:42

Booths! And I do 😊

user1471548941 · 01/02/2026 22:33

I have a Sweaty Betty literally on the corner of my street. Needless to say, it’s 60% of my wardrobe. Have picked up some fab bargains by being able to pop by before work when a sale starts etc!

TessSaysYes · 01/02/2026 22:28

Waitrose.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 01/02/2026 22:21

Live

Doingtheboxerbeat · 01/02/2026 22:21

I love next to a giant shopping centre but about 80 zillion miles from an IKEA since our city centre closed ours and I don't drive 😭.

Tuesdayschild50 · 01/02/2026 22:17

We have home bargains a 10 minute walk away m&s bit further ...
I don't love them being this close though I'm surrounded by shops you spend too much.

Whyhaveibeencutoutofmamsnot · 01/02/2026 22:13

Harrods (would mean I had the money to live in Knightsbridge)

Sweetiedarling7 · 01/02/2026 22:08

My nearest supermarket is Waitrose which I am very pleased about.
An Aldi would be a nice addition but it is a very small town so that won’t happen.

tallbirduk · 01/02/2026 22:02

Giving myself away here, but my house shares a fence with Lidl, Aldi is across the road (~90 seconds walk depending on traffic) and I can be in what was once the largest M&S (attached to a Tesco Extra) within a 10 minute walk - but I rarely go anywhere other than Aldi/Lidl to be honest. We also have a post office, chemist, optician, bookies, hairdresser, pubs and a train station.

JoeyJava · 01/02/2026 21:57

Costco.
Never been before, but they just have everything. And they're always a full-on excursion away from civilisation.

Chumbawomble · 01/02/2026 21:47

Years ago we bought a pretty awful house because it was all we could afford. The car park opposite attracted all sorts of criminality e.g. doughnutting and our car was vandalised several times, then stolen and written off. A year later a huge Waitrose was built in the car park. It felt like we and all the other residents somehow deserved it.

ViolaChomp · 01/02/2026 21:42

Aldi.

Blingismything · 01/02/2026 21:37

M&S 100%

restingbitchface30 · 01/02/2026 21:32

Lidl or m&s. Some days I’m frugal some days I’m boujee! I’ve got a coop and I love how ethical they are but their food is just awful.

PinkTonic · 01/02/2026 21:25

Davros · 31/01/2026 14:32

I live less than 5 mins walk away from an M&S foodhall. It’s closing for 3 months at the end of February for a refurb. I don’t know what I’m going to do! I’ll have to plan ahead and use the car

I hope you like your refurb a lot more than I like ours. Closed a year to move across the road and supposedly bigger and better. I hate all the chiller cabinets behind doors, I appreciate it’s probably more eco but people!! jeez. Also the car park is not fit for purpose and never could be and the ‘bakery’ that everyone can sneeze all over and handle the goods is 🤢

Lightrider · 01/02/2026 21:21

I live just off our high street and the 2 shops I use most are the shop with an Amazon locker and the Inpost locker shop. Would probably pick the Amazon locker shop as most useful.
Never use the grocery shops as I get it all delivered.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 01/02/2026 21:16

ALDI

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