If you live overseas, which British shops do you miss the most?

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If you live overseas, which shops do you miss the most? What items do you wish you could buy?

I was just thinking about this today, with not being able to travel, all the shops I miss going to.

Waitrose. That's pretty much it. I also miss Abel & Cole.

I have waitrose. But I miss B&M and dunelm. And George clothes for decent quality work stuff

None really. We can everything we want here. That might change next year if UK shop top online deliveries to the EU.

• if the UK shops stop online deliveries

No idea where that first illiterate effort came from.

I missed:
A decent bookshop (physical or online)
Dunelm

And I used to buy long length trousers and bras each time I visited the UK.

Marks & Spencers
Dunelm
IKEA (although we can order it in from USA, but not the same as wandering around one!)

I miss Waitrose, John Lewis, M&S and a good bookshop.

Boots, and Holland and Barratts.

And Asda/Tyne chease for vegan food.

That's it really.

@InTheLongGrass

I missed: A decent bookshop (physical or online) Dunelm

And I used to buy long length trousers and bras each time I visited the UK.

Can you use the book depository? They deliver for free here (nonEU) regardless of £ spent. I bloody love them, as English books are so expensive here and not a massive variety

I used to miss Waitrose, M&S, and Boots.

Mostly supermarkets that stock everything. I live in Spain and a lot of what we get is poor quality old and out of date. The herbs and spices are rubbish as well. You can't just go and buy, basil, for example. They may or may not have it. The veg is great on Friday and off by Monday.

Waitrose!

Just bookshops really. In Denmark it felt like there was always an equivalent.

Matas for Boots.
Irma for Waitrose
Bog & Idé for most of what WHSmith did (It's pronounced more like "Bo" than "Bog", in case you're giggling.)

I did feel that the usual Tesco and Sainsburys were a little nicer than their equivalents here, I guess.

I have to pay about £6 for a bottle of salad cream though. Which I do....

M&S food (can get their other stuff online)
WH Smith like it used to be 25 years ago!
John Lewis
Poundland/B&M Bargains for premium branss at prices you just can’t find here.

Waitrose
M&S

I adore Canada but the supermarkets are $$$ and nowhere near as good, especially at Christmas 😭

davekim I'm back in the UK now. Yes, we did use book depository, but stuff took 3-4weeks to arrive. Addresses were also problematic. I used to send stuff to DH at work, and had 100% sucess rate.
A friend used her residential address, and probably lost half her orders.

Waitrose. Particularly their low fat vanilla custard. And anywhere that sells decent sausage rolls, pork pies and Scotch eggs.

Abel & Cole. Graze (not a shop, I know). Waterstones. Sainsbury's. Boot's. Costa (much better than Starbucks imho). JL. All Saints.

John Lewis. Middle class catnip!

I’m back in the UK now but was in Asia for 10 years. I missed Boots! Even now, having been back for 7 years, I feel happy to walk into a Boots.

Waitrose. A big Supermarket where you can get everything you need instead of going to a couple of different shops.
M&S food hall
Hobbs.

Also in Spain, and like MrsT1405 I miss the range in supermarkets. The fresh fruit and vegetables are really good in ours to be fair, but it's very hit and miss on fresh herbs. I also want to be able to buy pharmacy items like paracetamol and basic clothing/underwear at the supermarket.

On the plus side we currently have access to a huge variety of turrón!

Poor punctuation - I don't consider clothing to be a pharmacy item! It seems the range in UK supermarkets is frequently missed though.

M&S
Waitrose
John Lewis
Monsoon
Next (online deliver but being able to go in and try on)
Boots

Living back in UK now, but I missed waterstones at the time, being able to browse an English language bookshop would of been heaven.
Pubs, tesco and cheap random shops, pound land/stretchers, the aisle of junk in lidl type thing.
Hobbycraft.