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New Year, Same Internet Problems

TheCatWoman

I know I've posted about this before and bore many of you who know me, but I'm doing it again, the first grump of the year.

I'm becoming more and more convenced that the internet is getting worse and worse, less and less responsive to what you search for, no matter how the search is worded or what search engine you use, it just seems determined to give you what it wants and not what I've asked for. I beginging to doubt my sanity in believing that there will a different outcome to depression and frustration thats usually the result of looking for anything I want.

I wish we still had shop where you could go and look, try things on, feel things get some idea of what it is you might be buying. I saw a couple of weeks ago that more shops are starting to open physical stores again, I hope so, but then I suppose I'd still have to travel for miles, find something I like and ask if they have it in my size only to be told no and that I can get it online. At least in a physical shop a can go to the dept I want without being asked if I want something totally different a dozen times before I find one thing I might consider buying that matches what I want.

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  • People like to touch the material of the item in a physical shop and feel the swish of the material… there’s so much more to it than choosing a size and a photograph. I remember when I was little I Used to have to sit in the clothes shop under the rails for hours with my with my cousin as my mum and my aunt looked at every item in the shop Joy a whole day was dedicated to shopping. I think we got more exercise in those times haha. But also there is something social about a shopping experience, you interact with the sellers and they make you excited about the items you are looking at (hopefully) they make you want to return to the brand and they give you a bit of euphoria along with the purchases and you leave not only with a commodity but with an experience…. 

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  • People like to touch the material of the item in a physical shop and feel the swish of the material… there’s so much more to it than choosing a size and a photograph. I remember when I was little I Used to have to sit in the clothes shop under the rails for hours with my with my cousin as my mum and my aunt looked at every item in the shop Joy a whole day was dedicated to shopping. I think we got more exercise in those times haha. But also there is something social about a shopping experience, you interact with the sellers and they make you excited about the items you are looking at (hopefully) they make you want to return to the brand and they give you a bit of euphoria along with the purchases and you leave not only with a commodity but with an experience…. 

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