What shop do you not have in your town that everyone else has?

[craftysnake]

Asda
Morrisons
wilkos RIP

I mean town

Alrighty then

A Butchers

Medium sized town, no Waitrose (but one in neighbouring town), no Home Bargains, not much clothes shop wise other than New Look and cheap tat. Again next town is good for this. Between the two (nine miles apart) I think we're reasonably well served. I still miss our lovely Debenhams that never went downhill in the way so many did though.

Any chain coffee shop

Most - we don't have any chain shops at all. Mostly independent shops or vape shops, nail bars and charity shops.

Greggs
New Look
Savers
Aldi
Hobbycraft
Nandos
Mammawagga (sp?)
Starbucks
Timpsons (haha, autocorrect changed that to tampons!) or any shoe repair/key cutting places
H Samuels
Farm Foods
Clarks
Iceland
Kwikfit
National Tyres

I could probably think of loads more!

I live in a county town and moved here 6yrs ago. In that time, I've counted 23 shops that have gone including Monsoon, Accessorise, Top Shop, Peacocks, Laura Ashley. Very sad.

Waitrose

My Dd lives near a Home Bargains and she regularly shows off her bargain buys,so I'd like to have one of those I think.

I'd love a Zara and a Uniqlo. Uniqlo seem to concentrate their shops mostly in the south of England. Apart from that, we have everything else that I personally like.

B&Q
It closed a few years back and there's a bowling alley in it's place.
The nearest one now is in the next town or the opposite side of town. Both involve 30 minute motorway journeys with guaranteed heavy traffic at the other end.
Gone are the days we could nip round the corner for a tin of paint or a random piece of skirting board. It's such a faff to get there now - I never thought I would miss a shop like B&Q. Nearest alternative is Wicks and that's tiny, more expensive and total pants.

I think we're quite fortunate reading this. Medium sized market town, we do have Sainsburys, Waitrose, MandS food, Aldi, Lidl, Home Bargains, Boots, Superdrug, Savers, Greggs, numerous coffee shops, independent hardware shop, butchers, two bookshops, 3 pet shops.

What we don't have are any fast food places apart from Subway and Dominos. Don't have any clothes shops apart from Peacocks, a small selection in M&s and a big selection in Sainsburys.

Asda. Home Bargains.
Small city, we do have Sainsburys, Tesco, Morrisons and Waitrose, and can order delivery from Asda.

I’m in London but there’s a weird
lack of Uniqlo branches anywhere near me. My nearby big shopping centre is crying out for one (it has a John Lewis, Apple Store, etc, so the right sort of level).

I really should read things properly, I read it as ‘what things do you have’

We recently got a Primark after many years of people asking for one in the comments of every news story about what will go on this big empty unit? We are about to lose our New Look as they want to turn the building into flats.
We don't have Asda (though there is one in a petrol station just on the outskirts), Morrisons, H Samuel's, KFC, Monsoon, Wilko off the top of my head.

Asda.

Not that I want one - I find them miserable places to shop.

I really miss having an M&S in town. There is a big one on an out-of-town retail park but you need to drive.

We're in market town in South West. We've got a Waitrose, Morrisons, Lidl with a Aldi in the next town so OK for supermarkets really but I'd love an M&S foodhall. Never gonna happen.
Only clothes shop is Peacocks since M&Co closed. We have Superdrug, Poundland and a Boots, which is the dingiest shop ever.
We have a number of independents, most of which do quite well but we've still got too many barbers, hairdressers, charity shops and empty premises.
I still like it for everyday shopping but go to one of two cities with 30 mins for anything special.

Loads of closures in the last few years. Most buildings have either stayed empty or turned into vape shops, American candy stores or charity shops. We've lost:

M&S
Debenhams
JD Sports
Gap
Laura Ashley
JoJo Mamam Bebe
Peacocks
Jones the Bootmaker
Holland and Barrett
Argos
Coop Department store

Our town centre is dying on its arse....

No Booths and we’re in the North West 😢

Do you have a Booths to make up for it?

I'm in north London. I'd love a Uniqlo. I always have pop in to one when I go to central London and I always by something

All of them but we do have a Booths so ner 😝.

WH Smith
Wilko

Wow I’m feeling very spoilt in my town right now. Lots of lovely independent places to eat and some lovely independent stores. I’m less than 30 mins on train to London so what I can’t get in my town I can just nip into big town 😀