Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:38:44 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:58:30 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I make sure I go to new stores alone because noen of my friends or
>>>>> family is as foodie as myself. I tried to visit some foodie stores
>>>>> when I was in Pittsburgh and while my host/escort was very gracious, I
>>>>> didn't want to press my luck.
>>>>>
>>>> Cell phones have improved the situation of more than one person
>>>> browsing a store. You can each do your own things, phone when you are
>>>> ready to leave and meet up.
>>> Except my friend was not a foodie at all. Likes my cooking but
>>> doesn't want to have anything to do with obtaining it or cooking it.
>>> So I doubt she would have any more fun in the bakeware section rather
>>> than the cookware section of Sur La Table :-)
>>>
>>> -sw
>> LOL! Yeah, that kind of store too. One recent day, I went to a mall
>> without my daughter precisely so I could look at all such stores and
>> departments at my leisure. It was fun.
>
> Maybe your mall is better than ours. It is one place that I hate to go. So
> many cookie cutter stores with nothing out of the ordinary. Didn't used to
> be that way when I was younger. I can remember a lot of nice little
> boutique and gift type stores. But now it's just more and more of the same.
> And all of those kiosks where people try to spray you with perfume or sell
> you a cell phone. Bleh. We do go to Nordstrom once in a while but that's
> about it.
>
>
I almost never go to the mall now. My daughter and I used to go a
fair amount, but that was many years ago. I was just in Sur la
Table, Williams-Sonoma, and the cooking-related sections of a few
larger stores. I mainly wanted to be walking about, but the
weather was not conducive to that.

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Jean B.