Gotta be Halfords
Always too quiet, big empty space with hardly any customers and hardly any staff
No one in their right mind actually wants to be there - just people stressing if they’re buying the correct bulb for their car
Bleak
Anyone want to nominate a bleaker shop?
Bright House
Basically loan sharks
Wickes
CEX
Justify your choices please
The one in the basement in Manchester’s Chinatown that’s loads of live lobsters and crabs tied up and piled up in tanks until there’s no room to move, some are just in boxes on the floor with no water and it’s lit with flickering strip lights.
What is a Bright House?
Weekly payment thing. Get a TV on a 6 year lease and pay 3x rrp
I’d still rather go to HMV than Halfords. Might have some good cheap paperbacks
Denied!
Vulture capitalism at its worst
Oh yes - there is one on London Road
Bleak with added exploitation of the poor
And that’s why it’s the worst
All porn shops are incredibly bleak of course
Pawn
Not porn
Fuck
Although I imagine porn shops are pretty bleak too
The two opposite the evening star are pretty bleak, although Private has shut think
Mobile phone shops. Full of wannabe estate agents trying to persuade elderly people and students to spend loads of money they haven’t got on things they don’t need.
Always smells, shop design seems to be primarily inspired by the Future Zone from the Crystal Maze, overwhelming feeling that just by being there you’re responsible for driving down the value of cultural industry products and bankrupting numerous other businesses
Never been in them Rich
Those ones you see in roadside buildings that clearly used to be little chefs look incredibly bleak
The tacky mobile phone repair places with flashing lights all over the outside