What Are Your Favorite Stores And Why?

R E I and the 99 cent store..food 4 less

 

the garbage dump was awesome...everything was free

until they closed it

 

My seed bank. I can count on the lowest price with maximum return.

 

MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op)

Decathlon

 

i have to admit i like trader joe's for groceries. the regular store costs as much for nowhere near as interesting or good. but it takes me more then an hour on the buses each way to get there and back. and the corner where i catch the bus, has 99 cents on one side, and a dollar tree on another. so i go to them most often. my bank is also on the third corner of that same intersection.

but the stores for the things i'm interested in, i just have to mail order, or play with simulations on the computer, because the town where i live, just doesn't have anything like decent ones.
i'm not entirely satisfied as to hardware stores or fabric stores either. book stores, the kind of used book stores that have paper back science fiction, are kind of scarce too.

i really don't live in a town that's great for shopping, probably because its affordable to live, and because the larger town next door, has an entertainment district where any sane city would have a retail downtown.
so there's just all these half assed malls, and one semi-big one. and other then the one big one, half the spaces are empty. its ok if you've got a pension, but i don't think i'd want to get stuck here if i didn't.

i like shopping for the things that interest me, but the stores that would have them, just don't exist locally.

 

Most often for clothes, Mango&Zara&DorothyPerkins&Lacoste&MassimoDutti
Müller and DM for make up and cosmetics.
A lot of girls here shop ASOS online, and are very satisfied.

 

we had a place called zepher books, but they went out of business because where they were was costing way more then what a book store brings in. we've still got a barn of snowballs of course, but new books are overpriced. well ok not really according to cost, but i mean, in relation to what i'm willing or able to pay, and besides used ones are just as readable. we've got a harbour freight too. i'd go there more often if i had a vehicle, but it takes as long to get there on the bus as it does to get to trader joe's. so far i haven't bought anything off of them. if i had more space to make stuff i probably would. and a vehicle of some kind to go get things that look interesting people are throwing away that i could make stuff out of.

 

Hannaford's, better selection of dry goods, better seafood

Price chopper, cheaper dry goods but limited, sometimes fantastic meat deals

Orion, too cool to describe

Bayou Café, gator fritters and gumbo

Vortex, the only decent burger in Atlanta

Junk Man's Daughter, too cool to describe

King George Inn, an excellent haunted hotel

Beacher's Lodge, on the ocean with a salt water pool, cheap and unsophisticated

Kennedy Space Center, also haunted!

 

Hobby Lobby because I hate birth control. No, not because I hate birth control, but because I could blow through 5 paychecks in that store and still wouldn't have everything I wanted. I love that friggin' place. I really hate that they are closed on Sundays because my restaurant is also closed on Sundays and that's usually my only damn day off to go there.

 

really? why? i thought restaurants with nonsensical hours was just a thing here. and wherever chic-fil-a exists of course.

seriously, what kind of pizza place closes during pro football games? that's one of the biggest times for pizza business. and i'm not kidding about the restaurants here having ridiculous hours. there's a sports bar/restaurant here in town that is open all day every day during the week, but doesn't open until 4pm on saturdays and is closed all day on sundays. and on the other side of that, there's several diners that are theoretically open for breakfast and lunch only. except they stay open until 5 or 6 pm. so basically, they pay people to sit around all afternoon doing basically nothing, then as soon as the dinner rush hits, they kick everyone out.

 

Mexicans own/run it. lol. Only explanation I really have. We have such a small crew now, too, that no one would get a day off if not for being closed one day a week. I think Monday would be a better day to be closed, personally. This is all pretty new, our place just got sold at the beginning of the month. My boss's family owns two other restaurants in nearby towns and they don't even stay open past 3 PM and aren't open Sundays either. We're also closed this Thursday and Friday. Thursday is understandable, Friday...yeah, still kind of understandable because we are in a tiny town and the only Black Friday sales anyone here is going to have will be at the dollar store. Black Friday is generally a slow day for restaurants that don't serve breakfast in the two towns I've worked in.

 

definitely. monday is always the slowest day for pizza business. probably for any restaurant that doesn't rely on weekday breakfast/lunch crowds.