What are your favourite kinds of shops?

I would say, over the years, it a was record/CD shop, particularly second-hand ones [in Tokyo, most memorably].

When I think of the UK, I often think of shops that sell gourmet sausages and pies/pasties.

Here I most enjoy cloth shops where I buy what I need to get shirts made [I haven't worn an off-the-peg shirt for maybe 25 years]. It's 1.75 metres for trousers and 2.5 metres for a shirt [batik].

Second-hand book shops. No contest.

@shallow-blue said
Second-hand book shops. No contest.

pawn shops

@fmf said
You know, I've been thinking about just that all day, although, I might be inclined to opt for Foyles in London if it still exists like it once was.

@gertrude said
pawn shops

my father liked smoking pipes and would take me to pipe shops
I like the smell of pipe tobacco to this day

@gertrude said
my father liked smoking pipes and would take me to pipe shops
I like the smell of pipe tobacco to this day

@torunn said
There was a kind of tobacco that smelled like chocolate.

Libraries.👍

pipe smokers enjoyed a unique form of pleasure

The Little Shop of Horrors

Guitar and music shops
Gun stores

Secondhand book shops and hifi shops