Favourite Stores?

[Moonface]

After writing about my recent trip to Ikea, I was curious if we had a thread for favourite stores we have/had and saw we don't have one. If it wasn't obvious yet, Ikea is absolutely one of my favourite stores to go to even if I don't end up buying anything there. I just love spending a few hours checking out all their room designs and getting inspired on how to decorate certain areas of the house.


For a store from my childhood, I always loved the now deceased Looney Tunes store that a mall near me in England had for a long time. I never bought anything there but I would just stay in there when I was a kid while my parents went to some other stores in that part of the mall because there would be a big spaceship that you could go in and watch Looney Tunes cartoons in on a big screen that I would just chill in. Toys R Us was another store I loved as a kid too (what kid didn't love it?) because it was usually the place I'd discover new Lego sets had come out that I was interested in or other toys that I was into. It was also the store where I first played Spyro The Dragon on one of those demo kiosks that were everywhere back in the 90s.

[Mr EliteL]

Yeah Toys R Us was great back in the day, just big enough to run around and look at all the toys as a kid. Wasn't the same when I went in one in my 20's when it begun to phase out, well the store in Basildon just felt so empty. I got a couple of amiibo though.
Woolworths as a kid too, had a mix of stuff in there though but I only focused on toys and sweets to not care about much else, but during college years the Chelmsford one no longer felt the same too.

GAME and HMV are usually the shops I had to go to whenever my family went to a town/city centre that had them or malls. HMV is lasting though, GAME kind of is but most of the walk-in stores I know of have gone.

Can't really say I have a favourite store now, the M&M store in London is great to go in but I probably won't go in it every time I'm in the area though.

[Moonface]

Yeah Toys R Us was great back in the day, just big enough to run around and look at all the toys as a kid. Wasn't the same when I went in one in my 20's when it begun to phase out, well the store in Basildon just felt so empty. I got a couple of amiibo though.
Woolworths as a kid too, had a mix of stuff in there though but I only focused on toys and sweets to not care about much else, but during college years the Chelmsford one no longer felt the same too.

Dang I forgot about Woolworths. I think that was one of the places my parents would get Halloween props from when we first started decorating for that day. I can't really remember anything about it beyond that and the sweets though.

I went to a Toys R Us here when they announced they were going out of business to see if by chance I'd find anything decent on clearance, but the place had been picked pretty clean by the time I got there. It was pretty depressing really; kinda like walking around London Comic Con on a Sunday when all the vendors have started to pack up their stalls.

[azalea]

best buy. if i'm ever in need of anything remotely related to electronics, 9 times out of 10 they have what i did, and i don't spend long in there, anyway. it's very much a "hey, do you have this? sweet" and leave. no wasting time, it's great. and even if i do want to spend a few minutes browsing around, there's no harm doing so. the one near me is pretty nice to look around, anyway.

... the only downside here is that i wish best buy wasn't, like, the ONLY electronics store around my area. i mean it.... good luck finding something like a microcenter since those are usually located in the northern US states, which seems to have a broader variety than what best buy offers. x.x

[Moonface]

best buy. if i'm ever in need of anything remotely related to electronics, 9 times out of 10 they have what i did, and i don't spend long in there, anyway. it's very much a "hey, do you have this? sweet" and leave. no wasting time, it's great. and even if i do want to spend a few minutes browsing around, there's no harm doing so. the one near me is pretty nice to look around, anyway.

... the only downside here is that i wish best buy wasn't, like, the ONLY electronics store around my area. i mean it.... good luck finding something like a microcenter since those are usually located in the northern US states, which seems to have a broader variety than what best buy offers. x.x

Lucky for you then that your Best Buy didn't turn into one of those Outlet variants. The Best Buy nearest to me turned into one of those and I think they just sell refurbished items and such rather than new items.