Where have all the shops gone?

I went to Bangor earlier as I needed some stuff I can only get from there and hoped to get a few things I want/need, like new shoes, even though there's only one shoe shop there now. I found the shop where I can often find clothes to fit me closed. The shoe shop had very little in store, H&B don't do the hemp oil I wanted, despite it being on thier website. 

It's really doing my head in, it's bad enough having to go there to get spices and bits from an ethnic grocers and other stuff from the wholefood shop, but to find pretty much empty streets with such a post apocalyptic and feral feeling is really upsetting. I know I could get some stuff online, but the P&P on a lot of it is expensive and it dosen't come free with prime either. I'd like to use amazon less too. As for other stuff, I've now no idea where I will get clothes or shoes, the usual places have nothing I like or that fits, or is suitable.

Its making feel really worried, it's bad enough having to wear winter boots in summer because I can't find any shoes, will I be wearing sandals in winter, because all of a sudden suitable stuff will appear in end of season sales? I had this before, I remember walking home from town with broken shoes, crying my eyes out because there was nothing in my size in 3 or 4 different shoe shops I went into, this was a few years ago now, but it seems those times are on the way back.

So if you see someone walking about wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for my head and a pair of wellingtom boots that leak and are falling off my feet, it will be me.

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  • Sorry to hear about your disappointing shopping experience. I know what you mean - I want to see clothes and shoes before I buy them. When shopping online they often don't put the length of trousers or skirts, the sizing is often seemingly random, and you can't tell what the material feels like.

    In recent years I've been buying from either Primark, or M&S online as I can get things delivered to my local M&S food store for free. But with their recent cyber attack, M&S have temporarily suspended online ordering. I looked on the Primark website today to see what's available in my local store, so I know what to look for when I get there, but the two skirts that looked promising are not available in store - however I can "click and collect" them apparently! But if I do that I can still end up with something that's the wrong size, too long or horrible material, and having to return it.

    We're told that stores are closing because people don't use them, but like Victor Meldrew - I don't believe it! How can people enjoy the lottery of shopping online and constantly returning stuff?

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  • Sorry to hear about your disappointing shopping experience. I know what you mean - I want to see clothes and shoes before I buy them. When shopping online they often don't put the length of trousers or skirts, the sizing is often seemingly random, and you can't tell what the material feels like.

    In recent years I've been buying from either Primark, or M&S online as I can get things delivered to my local M&S food store for free. But with their recent cyber attack, M&S have temporarily suspended online ordering. I looked on the Primark website today to see what's available in my local store, so I know what to look for when I get there, but the two skirts that looked promising are not available in store - however I can "click and collect" them apparently! But if I do that I can still end up with something that's the wrong size, too long or horrible material, and having to return it.

    We're told that stores are closing because people don't use them, but like Victor Meldrew - I don't believe it! How can people enjoy the lottery of shopping online and constantly returning stuff?

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