What's the most boring store you've ever been to?

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We all know those boring stores. The ones that have limited inventory, nothing exciting, nothing fun to browse, one of those stores that you only go to because you absolutely HAVE to. Also-they may likely sell very old, dusty packages of candy.

What's the most boring store you've been to?

Auto parts 7
Battery store 3
Appliances 3
Car dealership/repair shop 7
Radio Shack 3
Shipping store 2
AAA 4
U-Haul 6
Lumberyard 2
Vacuum store 4
Mattress store 5
Greeting card store 4
Other (comment) 9
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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    Home decor store

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  • kinklu
    11 years ago

    Women's section of Macy's. My wife is reborn when she enters and I gradually give up the ghost until I fall asleep on the easy chair, if I'm there too long.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Macy's, Sears, this "cheaper" store that used to be in an area near where I live, CVS, Target (The one I went to had a poor selection. It was almost quiet enough to hear the crickets chirp and it was like a ghost town.), Women's and ugly shoe section in most stores,etc.

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  • MissyLeyneous
    11 years ago

    Anyone seen the CVS gag ad fro The Onion on youtube? I would post the link, but I'm on mobile. :P

    Reply with link?

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  • cigs
    11 years ago

    AA

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    There is nothing beyond bed and bath.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    I have 2.
    KMart sucks. It's also going bust from what I hear. Whenever I go in there, it is practically desolate save for the token, morbidly obese 48 year old woman with faded makeup and bottle blonde hair and her cotton shorts riding up in her thighs, slowly prowling around the women's clothing section with some perfume, 5 T-shirts, a 6 pack of coke and a massive chocolate bar in her shopping cart.

    There are usually only 2-3 employees. A young, pregnant girl named "Britney" with a sad, hopeless look in her eyes as she constantly ponders how she will be able to pay for her newborn without the father and a minimum wage, part-time pay check, an older man or woman who was obviously forced out of retirement due to the recession and must now supplement his SS checks with a paycheck, a fat guy with a stressed, buttoned shirt as the manager and maybe a stock-keeper boy doing lord knows what because there is hardly ever anything on the fucking shelves.

    The inventory is lackluster but it's very cheap. However, it's a depressing place filled with impending doom, a permanently closed pharmacy section, light outages and general sadness.

    The Rite Aid is even worse. Since it's smaller, there's automatically less stuff in there. You have a poorly maintained ice cream stand in the corner of the store selling the lowest, possible quality of ice cream that they can get away with. The inventory is usually poorly stocked and often damaged and the store generally has a dirty, nasty bathroom, a pharmacy with 2 depressed looking Pharmacy employees, the only Pharmacist that the stand has and a woman who thought that her certification would land her a job at the nice pharmacy across town that was hiring but the manager hired his cousin instead, because he really needed a job.

    Usually headed by one of two hispanic woman, usually they don't speak much English so you have to rely on the crappy, faded signs to get what you want. The smell also reminds me of general hopelessness.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      LOL I stopped off at a Kmart because I forgot to get batteries and didn't wanna go all the way back across town. It was summer and they didn't even have AC just a crappy little box fan near the check out. That place looked like a war zone. It was so gross.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing
    11 years ago

    Radio shack!

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    OMG, radio shack, the lumber yard and the mattress store are NOT boring! If you have no fun at these places it is because you yourself are boring.

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    • 1000yrVampireKing
      11 years ago

      Radio shack has nothing but parts. So unless you are a computer nerd or working on something like a car it means nothing.

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      • myboyfriendsbitch
        11 years ago

        I am neither, but they have some cool gadgets in there sometimes.

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    • MissyLeyneous
      11 years ago

      Radio shack and lumber yard yes... mattress store no.

      I stopped jumping on the beds when I turned twelve and grew a brain. :P

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Yeah I voted for the mattress store. Even though the others such as battery store, auto parts parts store, car dealership and vacuum store are all close runners-up, at least cars and vacuums are relatively complex machines so by going around the store and seeing different parts and models and what not you can learn a little something about how they work. Batteries have...relatively intricate engineering behind their designs. Also, the shipping store has some neat stuff to play with if you are in there for a long time. Mattresses are just springs and fabric. The greeting card store is the second most boring. All of the messages on the cards are so cliche and shitty they make me angry.

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        • myboyfriendsbitch
          11 years ago

          My vote is on the getting card store. They make it look cool, but its really just embellished lameness.

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        • 1000yrVampireKing
          11 years ago

          What is wrong with the mattress store? You get to sit on all the beds?

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Sitting on the beds is not fun nor interesting, it just makes being there more bearable when you're so bored.

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            • 1000yrVampireKing
              11 years ago

              You do not like trying out beds and furniture? Why I love furniture and bed stores.

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      • cigs
        11 years ago

        true

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    The shut up store

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    There was a shop in Yorkshire that only sold bath plugs and they were nearly all the same. The only interest was maintained by noticing that one bathplug was an eighth of in inch bigger than another.

    The best shop I've EVER been in is the Lucky Duck shop in Whitby.

    http://luckyducks.tcchold.com/img/main_image3.jpg

    Ignore that it says "Friggers". The shop pretty much only has Steiff teddy bears (really REALLY good quality bears) and lucky ducks which are made of glass in all different colours and you can watch them being made in the shop.

    http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6678870633_49d9579695.jpg

    I know they look cheesy but I absolutely love them. I still have a green one that I bought when I was five years old.

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    • VioletTrees
      11 years ago

      I want to eat those ducks.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    fabric store or target

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    Primark. If only because it just has a depressing atmosphere and because of how often I somewhat unwillingly go there. Most of my friends shop there, so I get dragged around the shop fairly often, for hours. Waaaah:'(. I usually just pass the time by laughing. It sometimes borders on hysteria, though, ha. It's actually quite funny, so maybe I shouldn't choose it. It amuses me and my friends very much to see some of the stuff they sell in there. Deary me! Just any shop like that really. I'm not really a fan of clothes/shoe shopping, unless I'm in the mood or have enough money, which isn't that often.

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    • BlueJeansWhiteShirt
      11 years ago

      I live right near the biggest Primark worldwide!
      You seriously need to come to my Primark. Every time you go in, there is genuinely a physical fight, usually between two young mothers. It's such a good drama.

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      • bananaface
        11 years ago

        Hahaha! God, and I thought the Primark up here was bad. What are they even fighting over, the last pair of fake Ugg boots or something? This sounds like an episode of Jeremy Kyle, but only worse, which I didn't think was possible.D: How amusing, I'd probably get a good laugh watching that.:P

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      My ex used to drag me there ALL the time. It's the most horribly depressing place in the world, like the store front of a sweat shop. It's always packed as well, and the people in there always have a greedy look in their eyes when they see how cheap the clothes are.

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      • bananaface
        11 years ago

        Ha, speaking of sweat shops, I actually know a shop called Sweat Shop. I feel a diddy bit sorry for the people working there, imagine someone asking where you worked, and you tell them that you work at a sweat shop!

        But yeah, Primark is awfulD:. There's always really long queues as well, which is bad enough, but I'm never buying anything either! If I didn't find some of the stuff they sell so funny, I think I'd have been driven crazy by now.

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  • Wendell
    11 years ago

    A used bookstore

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    • VioletTrees
      11 years ago

      D: Used bookstores are wonderful! SO MAGICAL.

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