Your most favorite store or business to get dragged into

Home Depot - "You want three bags of mulch, honey? Cause what a coincidence I need a roll of chicken wire, another C-clamp and a sheet of plywood. Let's go!"

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sex shop

Bookshops, always bookshops.

i love bookstores too. could spend days in them

Antique stores, because I never get tired of looking for something that's been previously overlooked.

Book shops with cats.

Record shops (preferably with cats).

Thirding(?) book stores, record stores, and antique shops. Although, tbh, I'm usually the one doing the dragging in the event we come across any of the three.

Briar patches, I mean, grocery stores. Noooo, don't make me go grocery shopping... You insist? Oh, very well.

Antiques shops with old books and magazines, because they are quite often focused on furniture, china, etc., and don't realize what treasures they have in the paper goods. I picked up several old issues of Fantasy & Science Fiction at a place in Memphis for a buck each, found some very valuable comics for a buck each in Tupelo, etc.

But generally, bookstores and record stores.

And restaurant supply stores.

WmC OTM about the paper goods at antique shops. Although they can be very hit-or-miss when it comes to records, if they have any. They'll either be way undervalued or ridiculously overvalued.

RESTAURANT SUPPLY YES. YES. Oh Gordon Food Service, how I revere you!

When I was in NYC in 2003, my buddy and I were pretty focused on getting to Downtown Music Gallery, but I noticed we were in the middle of the restaurant supply district and part of me wanted to ditch the CD shopping and go have some stove lust.

GFS mostly sells restaurant-quality foods in restaurant-supply quantities and sizes, long before Costco or whatever. All the church ladies used to get together to split cases of frozen soft pretzels, chicken breasts, juice cups with peel-back foil lids, and other delectables that made feeding yr family cheaper.

However, the real pleasure of going to the retail store was the kitchen equipment and utensil racks. For YONKS, every utensil and tool in my kitchen came from that little store in Muskegon, MI, all bought when I went off to college. I still have one of their paring knives here on my desk (for recalcitrant editors, no just kidding).

i like lookin at the puppy dogs inna window.

Barnes & Noble with its overpriced full MSRP books and overpriced Starbucks coffee. I feel like a superior hipster when I go in to purchase a Star Wars paperback.