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Where have all the shops gone?

TheCatWoman

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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  • Even our charity shops are closing down and the ones that are left are selling more and more new things and getting very picky about what they will and won't accept, it's bad enough that I dont' bother with them anymore, I take clothes to the tip for recycling, most of them are past wearing anyway. 

    I'm told that even shops in the next big town along are closing, they all relocated there into what looks like purpose built preceincts. Most of the shops are quite a way from the train station and hidden away behind walls, you need a sat nav to find them. I don't really want to have to go to another country, (England) to go shopping, it's expensive and exhausting.

    Rent and rates have gone up a lot, but it's still 60p for an hour and £1 for two hours to park in Bangor, so it's hardly expensive.

    I'm not a fan of online shopping, there are a couple of places I can get shoes online from, Moshulu, who are based in Devon and have a really easy returns policy, the lable comes with the shoes and if they don't fit, you just pop them back in the bag and stick the returns lable on and it's all sorted out within about 10 days. Hotter I buy some stuff, like walking boots from, I've been buying the same sort for years now and know they fit.

    What bugs me about online shopping is that so often what you recieve is so totally different from what you order, trousers are really difficult for me to find as I have such long legs, a lot of stuff is one size fits no one and it's tiny, even my 5' 3" size 12 Mum has to buy large sized tights now. The other thing is how come when I search I rarely get what I searched for, but loads of stuff I didn't and is nothing like what is asked for and all the sponsered links and promotions do my head in, it confuses me and I can't cope. It's like when I go into a shoe shop and ask for a size 8 in a particular shoe that I've picked of the rack and the assistant comes back and says they don't have it and would I like to try the size 5 they do have? Why would I want a shoe 3 sizes to small? Why do I so often get treated like I'm being difficult for not wanting to try or buy a shoe 3 sizes to small?

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  • Even our charity shops are closing down and the ones that are left are selling more and more new things and getting very picky about what they will and won't accept, it's bad enough that I dont' bother with them anymore, I take clothes to the tip for recycling, most of them are past wearing anyway. 

    I'm told that even shops in the next big town along are closing, they all relocated there into what looks like purpose built preceincts. Most of the shops are quite a way from the train station and hidden away behind walls, you need a sat nav to find them. I don't really want to have to go to another country, (England) to go shopping, it's expensive and exhausting.

    Rent and rates have gone up a lot, but it's still 60p for an hour and £1 for two hours to park in Bangor, so it's hardly expensive.

    I'm not a fan of online shopping, there are a couple of places I can get shoes online from, Moshulu, who are based in Devon and have a really easy returns policy, the lable comes with the shoes and if they don't fit, you just pop them back in the bag and stick the returns lable on and it's all sorted out within about 10 days. Hotter I buy some stuff, like walking boots from, I've been buying the same sort for years now and know they fit.

    What bugs me about online shopping is that so often what you recieve is so totally different from what you order, trousers are really difficult for me to find as I have such long legs, a lot of stuff is one size fits no one and it's tiny, even my 5' 3" size 12 Mum has to buy large sized tights now. The other thing is how come when I search I rarely get what I searched for, but loads of stuff I didn't and is nothing like what is asked for and all the sponsered links and promotions do my head in, it confuses me and I can't cope. It's like when I go into a shoe shop and ask for a size 8 in a particular shoe that I've picked of the rack and the assistant comes back and says they don't have it and would I like to try the size 5 they do have? Why would I want a shoe 3 sizes to small? Why do I so often get treated like I'm being difficult for not wanting to try or buy a shoe 3 sizes to small?

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