Shopping online

We do all our food shopping online and it works very well. It is a pity that my sensory difficulties with fabric feel make clothes shopping online impossible, as it is amongst my least favourite shopping experiences. The worst shopping for me is shoe shopping, I hate the amount of interaction that is usually necessary with shop assistants. Unfortunately, my feet are too high-arched and wide to take a chance with any footwear I haven't tried on.

Shoe shopping, that brings back many unpleasant memories, all the way back to infancy. My mother had a shoe fetish.

When we were children she used to drag the whole family on Saturdays from one shoe shop to another, she loved the small independent shops where she would get a personal service from the shop assistants, where we had to wait for the assistant to get the other shoe from stock.  I will never forget the awful smell of shoes in these confined spaces.

Many years later when I tried to enter one of these shops, I couldn't, I had a panic attack and collapsed in the street.  Now I only buy shoes in large well ventilated stores.

I used a large independent that always had both pairs of shoes available to try on. No need to interact at all except to pay. Unfortunately it closed down, so I now buy from M&S, where both shoes are also available.

Me to.  The modern shops such as shoe zone have everything on display.  But in decades gone bye we had small independent shops which were cramped, only had one size shoe on display, we had to go up or down into basements navigating narrow stairs.  My mother loved the personal service, the waiting for the other shoe to be found, the assistant physically fitting the shoe onto her feet.  I absolutely hated the experience, I couldn't breathe in these places.

Me to.  The modern shops such as shoe zone have everything on display.  But in decades gone bye we had small independent shops which were cramped, only had one size shoe on display, we had to go up or down into basements navigating narrow stairs.  My mother loved the personal service, the waiting for the other shoe to be found, the assistant physically fitting the shoe onto her feet.  I absolutely hated the experience, I couldn't breathe in these places.