What shops do you love going into?

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I don't mean shops you like because they're products are good quality, or because they're reliable for certain things, or because their customer service is great.

I mean what shops do you go in and think "Yes, I love it in here".

For me its Iceland Food Warehouse. Our local one is massive, really clean, really well-stocked and I always find completely random oven-able beige goods.
I could genuinely browse for hours.

We also have Boyes in my local high street. It's like a mini department store that sells basically everything you could think of. It's like stepping back in time. I absolutely adore it.

Oliver bonas
white company
anthropology

garden centres!!
nice museum gift shops

Oh - has Lambs Conduit St closed, @Tutorpuzzle? Not sure the one in Bath is worth a special trip (though Bath itself always is). I was annoyingly in Bath either a few days before or after the Persephone Book festival earlier this year, but I watched along to the Little Boy Lost film virtually from a hotel in Cheshire.

Yes! 🤫 (It’s not actually a secret.) There’s nowhere quite like it.

@ProperDeep , yes, it closed a couple of years ago…but somehow I’ve not clocked they do a festival so I’ll be looking out for that next year. Thanks 😊

Don’t know that it’s every year - possibly it was an anniversary year, I forget!

Equestrian supplies shop. Oh, the smell of leather!

Daunt Books
TK Maxx/Homesense
Muji
Tokio Hands (spent a small fortune there in 2019, which is probably keeping them in profit still)
The Mousetrap (small chain of cheese shops)

An old one, but I used to love MFI. All the little 'living rooms' with wall units!

Indeed. I have another word for you, Cornucresine.

Also, horse feed stores are wonderfully aromatic. Sugar beet, country mix, bran and haylage all smelled wonderful. Not so good if you ever tried it as a human diet, which I did when I was about 12. Just by sticking my finger in and licking it, obviously.

Trago Mills- the big one in Merthyr. I go just for a trip out not because I need anything.

I love a Waitrose, any one will do!

Peter Jones in Sloane Square.

I just love Tesco 😂

Liberty London

Independent and secondhand bookshops

I used to love Space NK before it became a hotspot for spoiled teenagers.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for a big M&S

Massimo Dutti
I love the scent that permeates the shop.
If only I had the figure to suit the clothes.
I had it once.
Sighs.

Savers! I love a Friday afternoon visit to Savers for a few bits and pieces, but only the one particular branch. It's a real treat.

Also agree about The Food Warehouse OP. They have a brilliant 'radio station' and I always find they play really cool songs when I'm in. The other day it was Get The Message by Electronic. You don't get that everywhere 👌

I noticed there's a Sostrene Green opening in Leeds Trinity - I discovered it earlier this year in Bangor and loved it.
I love Liberty and Fortnum and Mason. Also fabric shops - a particular soft spot for Bombay Stores in Bradford.
I'm also fond of Booths. Always go when over Preston way or in the Lakes - the only supermarket that makes Waitrose look a bit downmarket!

I purchased many bras in there 🙂 (my parents lived in Saltford for some time). I’ve heard it’s not as good as it was, but I may be wrong.

I love IKEA, Home Bargains, Dunelm, TKMaxx and the LEGO Store! I can’t stand clothes shopping though!

I feel the same. Love this shop and when we recently re-did our lounge most of the furniture came from there and we love it.

Oh wow, that's a blast from the past.

I used to love MFI as a kid. I used to think that the little rooms they had set up were so so posh <we lived in a cruddy council flat> I used to wander around them, mentally pieing them together into the beautiful home I'd have as an adult.

My cousin works in one and loves it. The staff are treated well and she is well into her dress making it’s fabulous for crafting.

There's a Next Interiors shop in a retail park that is never too busy and I love the room sets- particularly the children's bedrooms.

There was a fantastic furniture shop off the Boucher Road in Belfast but sadly after the 2008 recession it went.
It was near where Lakeland is now.

My bedroom wardrobe and chest of drawers is MFI, getting on for 30 years old!