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Kids now have no idea how exciting a great retail store could be before the web. It used to be that you could only buy (or even know about) whatever was in your local store, which was the same as in other local stores.
A great, specialized retail store was something you'd probably have to travel to another town to visit, and that you'd look forward to for a year. I still remember going to Hamley's in London, and later to the gift shop of the National Air and Space Museum.
We still have a tradition of going on pilgrimages to famous retail stores, but without realizing why. The stuff is all stuff you could buy online. For kids, the excitement now is permission to buy something. It used to be permission to buy something better than you'd ever seen.
And the serendipity of discovering new items
Bookshops were like that for me as a kid
the first time I stumbled into a super dense & tiny electronics store in Tokyo the experience was so captivating that I did not want to leave again
there were so many interesting products for so many categories but even within a category there was so much more depth than I've ever seen before like a whole isle (!) just with brushes to clean various parts of photography equipment
So true. I really think world will miss a lot of these experiences that are full of anticipation, the long wait, the moment and the memories.
It's a deeply engrossing educational experience for the young to visit these.
Get them into vintage anything and they can relive a version of this. I still love visiting vintage music equipment shops. Way better than online or even new equipment shopping experience
KB Toys in the States. It was an amazing chain in the shopping malls where parents would drop off the kids while running errands. This was back when it was still relatively safe to be left alone, and your parents wouldn’t get arrested for doing so.
Weekly visits to spend my allowance when I was little!
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