Insufficient seating for weary shoppers
Watch this postAm I being unreasonable? To ask shops to provide more seating areas for tired shoppers to take a break? What are your views?
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The grocer would pack each item, offer sample tastes, all while the customer was sitting.
Obviously this method of shopping is never to return. Shame because I can't afford the sort of shops that can operate a similar system to -day and there must be some.
However I agree we have now gone overboard and shopping is a nightmare to be avoided wherever possible. Indeed floor space is vital for profit - said to be with the customer's well being considered....it keeps the prices down! Display baskets in the aisles, goods stacked far too far up and back for my arms to reach. It really is a battleground. At least when I buy on line it is only my head that aches at the end of such concentration.
I would have thought a bench like seat is possible on the shop floor and the first supermarket to do so would see the popularity thus we could find all stores installing a little comfort for the customer.
Unfortunately it would mean people statistically would use too much parking time thus preventing customer turn over.
I wonder what the answer would be if the question was directed at one of the large supermarkets?
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I've recently moved to a new home and a new town. I went to town early last Wednesday morning and decided to have coffee and breakfast in one of the numerous cafes in the town. I then went for an explore walking round but was only able to do this due to the many benches around the town where I could stop and sit to catch my breath. Both in the shopping area, town square and park by the river lots of places to sit.
It was lovely. I think I am going to like it here
Growing old does not mean giving up, even when the old bones and muscles are complaining. Pain is relative, what is 'unbearable' for one is merely an annoying inconvenience for someone stronger.
As long as a I have a pulse and as long as I know who I am and where I am, I will continue to hit the shops.
And you lot are moaning about the lack of seating in shops!
does not mean one cannot walk.
Being disabled or restricted in mobility does unfortunately.
this can happen to people at any age
Moaning as you call it...
No, just making comments and hopefully finding solutions.
sometimes sharing with others can bring the most unexpected answers to problems.
so that people can keep going.
You, Celtwitch, are fortunate. I hope you get more sympathy in ten or fifteen years when you might need it.
Best place I found to sit while out shopping, is the Bolton town centre.
It is full of seating and a great place to shop too.
that's Bolton in Lancashire.UK
It's a little chunkier than an umberella, but I can sit anywhere I need to and when I need to.
I get some funny looks but I don't care as I don't intend to shut myself away just because I can't walk far.
the shops are quick enough to take our money, so why not provide something on these lines in shopping malls?
the only problem is that unlike when you go shopping yourself, you can feel, and see the product, your buying, look at the colours and so on,
and make on the spot decisions where as, with on line shopping some times the shop assistant has to make a decision and then gets it wrong,
So when buying clothes on line, some times the selection sent wasn't exactly what you had expected, or had in mind, and in some cases the item wasn't as you had seen it ,in say a catalogue or news paper,
but for people unable to get to the shops, perhaps this is the only way that they can manage to do their shopping, that is unless they are lucky enough to have some one else get it for them,
Have a look at what Selfridges are doing this week .... http://www.silversurfers.com/selfridges-unveils-no-noise-project/ 🙂
I have spent years avoiding injury from in-store shopping.
It is a health hazard to shop in store. Not only physical strain and stress but mental anger at aisles choked with chatting friends, trollies with re-stocking goods and the lads and lasses trying to do their job (blocking the aisles!!).
School holiday times I do declair parents drop their kids off for an hour or two to run off steam....and then there is the P.A.system.
Now I love children, I truly do but best when I am in command and in a supermarket I am not...
Then there is the problem of reading the labels.....with eyes no longer as bright as they once were, studying the small print, the dates, the use by, the best before and turning around and finding someone has accidentally walked off with your trolly and left you theirs...
The irony of it all is that in so many ways and in vastly different proportions, we are back to having goods delivered. Before WW2it was quite usual to have the grocery lad on his bike as well as the butchers kid struggle with the deliveries to the door, exactly like the Hovis ad. (Sadly now no longer part of UK)
It becomes a toss up whether or not shopping in line is less tempting to over purchase goods. I have not yet worked that one out.
I admit that on occasions I have a shopping in store session but it is good to have other means of staying fed and watered.
What sort of shopping experience will the world have in 50years?