Have any weird anomalous shops you ever go to or pass?
Just randomly remembered when I was in 6th form my mate would sometimes buy his cigs (20 Bensons) from a tobacco shop. It sold loads of types of loose tobacco by weight and rough French cigarettes etc.
Tobacco shops don’t exist in the UK anymore do they?
There’s one on Cross Street in Manchester but it’s half traditional tobacco shop like out for a film. And half your standard cornershop with loads of nik naks and the like
Find the lack of toy shops utterly baffling and something I never really noticed until having M.
I know all the smaller ones seem to have closed but even in the city centre they’re hard to find. There’s The Entertainer in the Arndale and until recently the Disney store but that’s gone now. The curse of department stores and that I guess.
In Italy it’s somewhere in between - shops that sell 90% cigs but also weird random stuff like stamps and a few sweets.They always have cig machines outside for after hour sales as well.