Which ones do you like the most and which ones do you wish you had?

I'm at Walmart and Petsmart the most. We have pretty mch every store Ive ever heard of here. So nothing that I can think of.

We have a WalMart and a super WalMart, I only shop at the regular WalMart, I don't care for the "super one" it's too busy and I prefer to shop at WalMart for other things not groceries. I like Weiss's for groceries. Kmart is another favorite of mine.

I'm very glad to not have a walmart anywhere near me.

I wish I had a Giant Eagle closer, and a HalfPriceBooks. Other than that, pretty much everything is here, at least every chain with stores in Columbus.

I wish there were a place that sold Zissou's food closer than a halfhour bus ride away but oh well.

Target and Petsmart here . Love these stores. I wish we had a Fazolis (Italian fastfood chain).

Originally Posted by Cat Mommy

Target and Petsmart here

. Love these stores. I wish we had a Fazolis (Italian fastfood chain).

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I like Fazoli's. Their sauce actually tastes good and you get like a gazillion free breadsticks. But it is irritating because my dad insists on calling it "Faz-ee-o's" like there's no l in it at all... drives me nutbar. He also calls Ghirardelli "Gri-hald-ee" and insists that they say it that way in San Francisco... Anyway, every time I see a Fazoli's I can only think of him saying it like that.

Originally Posted by Cat Mommy

Target and Petsmart here

. Love these stores. I wish we had a Fazolis (Italian fastfood chain).

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Fazolis is yummy. I love their pizza spaghetti.

I shop at PetSmart all the time but it's 45 minutes from here so I think I'd like to have one here. And Starbucks, I'd be ten tons(and in debt) if they ever opened one here!

We rarely go to the shops, the only ones we go to are Whole Foods, Costco and Safeway!!! I LOVVVVE Whole Foods though, they have THE best food! We also go to the Milk Pail Market which has an awesome range of fruit and veg and it's sooooo fresh and cheap!! They also have a great range of cheeses, and little deli type foods. It's a tiny store, but always packed! But now that DH and I both work at a company that provides 3 meals a day for free, we haven't been to a grocery store for 2 weeks...

The only other store I go to regularly is Pet Food Express for the girls' food.

Shops I LOVE browsing in are REI, Ikea, Barnes and Noble and Crate and Barrel (but would never buy anything from there - a friend has bought 2 expensive furniture sets from them, and both sets took forever to arrive and turned up damaged!!).

I also love the downtown area of the little suburbs nearby, they have gorgeous little homeware stores, bookstores, specialty food stores, and things like that which are SO much fun to browse in!

We've only lived in this one area of the US since we've been here, and we have heaps of shops around us, so don't feel as though we're missing out on anything! There's certainly no major Australian things that I can't get over here!

I'm in Chicago too... In the past I would have said I wished there was a Hot Topic nearby, the closest one was far away but then they recently opened one up in the mall closest to me! That is one of the places I go most often (Hot Topic...)
Other places I shop often are some of the small pet stores where I sometimes buy pet food like Kiss My K9 and 4 Legs and The Barking Lot. I also go to Petsmart a lot for crickets for my bullfrogs. Lately I've been going to Target a lot too because they have my favorite drink, Mountain Dew Pitch Black (in an Icee form) and it's the only place to get it.

One shop we actually do NOT have in Chicago is Wal Mart! They were not allowing them to open a shop in the city. However they did open one up a few years ago in the suburbs not to far from me. I rarely go there though.

I also wish we had a Sonic here. They keep showing commercials for Sonic over and over, yet the closest one is NOWHERE near Chicago! It's very annoying! The funny thing is the only Sonic I have been to now was in Texas.

Originally Posted by GailC

I might be one of the few that wishes there were NO WALMARTS!!!

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Thank goodness I'm not the only person who thinks this!

I tend to shop at Superstore for groceries, and then for other stuff I like to suport stores that only have Canadian made products, so I shop a lot at Giant Tiger, which are only set up in the core areas and are actually doing something good in that area!

I get most groceries at Jewel or Dominick's (chain grocery stores) not at the large "superstores" that have groceries and clothes and electronics and etc... The only exceptions are I sometimes buy soup at Target because it's been SO expensive at the grocery stores, and I get most of my fruit and veggies and a lot of the fresh meat at small produce markets (better prices and better-looking produce.)

I'm in Canada and the only stare I really go to is Safeway for groceries. But that's only because I've been sick for a while and it's hard for me to go out shopping.

Stores that I like are Zellers, Walmart and The Bay.

Stores I wish I had access to in Canada is Target and Maceys.

We pretty much have everything withing a reasonable distance, as I live central! I just wish that we had more independent shops as I would much prefer to support them than adding to the mass 'squillionaire' chains!

I love to go into Old Navy, Walmart and Homesense.

I wish we had stores like Macys, Target and Big Boy resturants (I'm addicted to their hot fudge ice cream cake)

I always go to Walmart, Zellers and Loblaws...I wish I had Ikea, Target and Bath and Body works

Originally Posted by GailC

I might be one of the few that wishes there were NO WALMARTS!!! I will never shop there (long story)

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I'm with you there also. We have just about every major chain here and I have a preference toward Dilliard's, Macy's and Target.

I really, really, really wish that Marshall Fields was not bought out by Macy's and we had that big old 9 story, full block sized store here in KC. I used to work in downtown Chicago for 10 years and spent a lot of time and money in that store.

What I like about Dilliards is that it reminds me most of Marshall Fields.