I’m staying out of the malls, shopping centres and big box stores and ordering as much as I can online.
(I’m a little ashamed to admit that I ordered a Jumbo box of cereal on Amazon last week.)
Shopping was never a favourite thing for me, but I got thinking of stores from years gone by.. and most of them show my age… but here were my favourites – Simpsons Sears and Eatons when I was a kid, Zellers for the diner, Kmart and Woolco for the caramel corn popcorn at the entrances.
When I was a teen and could go anywhere on my own, the It Store (kind of an early San Francisco) , Sam the Record man, A&A Records, Hobby Lobby, Radio Shack and the odd little store – Consumers Distributing where you had to take their little pencil and fill out a form.
After I got my first apartment I would hit Biway,(early version of Bargain Harold’s) for household needs.
I worked 6 days a week so I’d get groceries at the Capitol grocery store in Fairview because it was the only one open on Sundays.
I’m sure many of you can fill in the many, many clothing and shoe stores that have disappeared in the last few years. What stores figure in your Christmas shopping memories?
