who has hte WORST shopping facilities locally?

[TheDaVinciCod]

to them

LOL Peachy.

WHAT were his parents thinking?

LOL MamaG- Does it have a catalogue? I can guess hwere you are from that description!

Peachy- When we were in Wales dd1 was travel sick and I pulled off the M4 trying to find somewhere to get something for her to wear and must have been quite near you (didn't find anywhere)

Cod- Carnforth at least is very close to Lancaster though which isn't bad for clothes.

Here we aren't bad for shopping , loads of chains but they tend to be the cheaper end of the scale (Ok for me!) and we also have a Debenhams and M&S

IMoM - the second picture you posted is of where we got married

Have only ventured to Grimethorpe once when I used to do mystery shopping and had to check out the Kwik Save. Says it all I guess!

Pmsl at this thread - you lot don't know you are born

I have just moved house, but where I used to live I was 45 miles (yes, 45) from Mackays. That's it. Just Mackays. And Morrisons. M&S, Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Dorothy Perkins etc etc all over 100 miles away!

Where I live now, I am now 4 miles from Mackays , the co-op and a Somerfields; 25 miles from a big Tescos. And still 100 miles from M&S

Beat that

whats a mackays?
I WANT TESCOS!!!!

If woolworths did clothes for adults, that's what they would sell, nearlythere

Maybe a bit unkind, but it's fairly frumpy stuff (and every kid in the area consequently has the same winter coat )

The Tescos we went to when we moved in was amazing - never been in such a big one since I lived in London 15 years ago - dh and I got so excited - "oooh look, they sell toasters! And computers! and school pumps!! (pair of saddos)

ahh- so not a good thing then!

i enjoy visiting my mum twice a year as they have a 24hour tesco extra just 10 mins from the house- she thinks i'm barking when i ask if we can pop in on our way home from a nice meal!!! but for me its such a treat!

My large (and growing village) has:

No bank.
Nowhere to buy clothes at all - not even a pair of pants.
No cafe.
One small Co-op (which is about to close for a refit), thus leaving the pensioners and non-drivers with no farking food for three weeks.
A wool shop run by a freak.

Oh, but of course, it does have two estate agents .. which is really useful on a day to day basis, don't you think?

rofl at miaou in tescos, I can imagine her awe-filled face like this, saying "look at all the cereals" "look, they've got strawberries in January!"

I think Miaou wins the most remote mner award

My nearest shop is a Spar - about 20 minutes drive. That's where the post office is too. But bizarrely, if you drive another 20 minutes then I have a House of Fraser and nothing much else.

I'm just under an hour's drive from the nearest city and 40 minutes from Mackays

Everything gets delivered now.

squonk

We spent two hours in there (mostly gawping)

I'm about two miles from a shack selling stuff like bread and washing poweder.

I'm five miles from a supermarket which sells mainly US or Middle-eastern food, but which recently had NO flour, NO beef, NO chicken, NO orange juice.

For clothing, shoes and many normal household products I'm several thousand miles away.

Only five weeks till I go home again, yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Well thankfully now I am back in my preferred habitat (10 mins walk from city centre) but I did at one time live somewhere where it was a 300km round trip if you needed a pair of shoes. The only place nearby was a supermarket which sold a few t-shirts and shorts and flip-flops.

Malory, just seen your thread about Truro, that was where I had to do all my decent clothes shopping when I lived in deepest, darkest Cornwall, it's a massive deal getting those shops believe me!

When I moved to Warrington and went to the Trafford Centre for the first time, I went around with my mouth open for most of the time! I was in shopping heaven and when my best friend came up so was she!

Oh, Warrington, how I miss IKEA and M&S Gemini. Give them my best

I live 5 minutes away from both of them, I love them!! Partner doesn't though!

When we went home the first time from Nigeria I 'gazed in awe for all I saw' at our local Co-op, which is about 10ft x 10ft in size.

I used to live a 5 min drive away too and walking distance from Matalan (not quite so exciting)

Not far from me then, though I'm more towards the Peace Centre

I used to live on Forster Street (Off Orford Lane), I worked at Lingley Green and used to drive past IKEA and M&S on my way home every night. Far too much temptation ....

Lilymaid
where is this decent shopping centre you speak of in Bury St Edmunds

I live there and our shops are rubbish

elli, compared to haverhill anything is luxurious.. I like Bury, the new cattle market will be nice

the new cattle market will be lovely
but called Arc
tis the name of a carwash ffs

and no one will shop there as they've built it where the car park was and there's nowhere to park now

arc is a shit name. is there a park and ride in bury? I hear there will be a Gap???

there is no park and ride
except on saturdays in school hols, when they can be bothered, they take over a factory car park and put on buses

is supposed to shut us all up moaning about parking

no idea on Gap
we are getting Debenhams (who used to be here but left and now want to come back) and H&M i think
Next and Topshop are moving across

or so they say

could end up sitting empty if they balls it up enough