Places to Buy Stuff.

[Sean Regan]

I've started this thread, mostly for UK contributors, as somewhere to post any interesting retail sites.

Locally, there's only one shoe shop. So not a lot of choice. I'd have to go into Manchester for more.

For several decades, we've used this retailer which has a branch in a shopping complex near the Lowry in Manchester, they have a hundred stores in the UK and an online site.


https://www.pavers.co.uk/

I've just bought myself a new pair of slippers, on-line.

Pavers™ | Shop Men & Women's Shoes & Boots

Shop our range of comfortable footwear for men & women - No quibble 45 days returns policy - Wide range of colour options - Shop instore, online, by catalogue & phone.

www.pavers.co.uk

I couldn't be more pleased with them.

 

[Tetters]

Unfortunately many of our shops are disappearing now. The high street is nothing like it used to be, mostly because small businesses are being stifled, and it isn't a viable way to make a living these days.
A vast majority of our shopping has to be online, and the firms we deal with are all large concerns with cut priced goods from China, as are many groceries imported now from the same place.
We support our local farm shops, and our local garden centres, and there are one or two small hardware shops still struggling through - as much like they used to be, but often struggling to buy stock from UK suppliers. I can think of one in Hythe, and one in Canterbury.
''Fings ain't wot they used to be'' There are a few decent fish shops though, opened by struggling fishermen, in hut like buildings. We have bought fresh fish from a good one in Folkestone by the harbour, one in Hythe on the seafront where the boats come in, and another by the harbour in Whitstable, where I grew up (my naval father's family a long line of Oyster fishers) - Whitstable of course, being renowned for it's Oysters.

 

[Anniekay]

I've started this thread, mostly for UK contributors, as somewhere to post any interesting retail sites.

Locally, there's only one shoe shop. So not a lot of choice. I'd have to go into Manchester for more.

For several decades, we've used this retailer which has a branch in a shopping complex near the Lowry in Manchester, they have a hundred stores in the UK and an online site.


https://www.pavers.co.uk/

I've just bought myself a new pair of slippers, on-line.

Pavers™ | Shop Men & Women's Shoes & Boots

Shop our range of comfortable footwear for men & women - No quibble 45 days returns policy - Wide range of colour options - Shop instore, online, by catalogue & phone.

www.pavers.co.uk

I couldn't be more pleased with them.

Slippers, Ay.
No Cleats
I suppose?

 

[Sean Regan]

There are some areas where small businesses survive. Our village has one "shopping street." It was the main road, but through traffic can avoid it by using a couple of adjoining roads, not a bypass.
There are about thirty shops, including a small Tesco and a Coop. There was a bank, but that closed twenty years ago and became a bookies. There are two pubs, three restaurants and two cafés.
In the fifty years we've lived here, some shops have changed hands, but none has ever been empty. You can get anything here, from having your dog groomed to having your golf trolley repaired. The bookies, went last year and was replaced by a second hardware store.

There's a high fashion dress shop, 2 ladies hairdressers, a deli, a pizza shop, a dentists, an optician, a men's hairdessers, a vet, a pet supplies shop, a butchers, a cycle store, a "Bargain Booze," a card shop, a photographers and two charity shops.