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Just trying to understand the shops/stores.. and how they rate.
What's your favorite store? Worst store?

CVS = Boots/Superdrug?
Filenes = John Lewis?
Home Depot is like B&Q?
I know Rainman bought his underwear from K-Mart... is that not good?

Pimpbot

Sears sells a few more items, like tools. But they are similar.

You might have a Walgreens near you also. This is like Superdrug but X10. The only CVS I have ever seen, is the new one thats just been built on the strip in Vegas and its huge!, but I am not sure if they are all that big, where as all the Walgreens I have been in are around the same size.

Lowes is also like B&Q or Homebase.

ArsNo2

Home Depot and B & Q are owned by the same people I am convinced... Walked into B & Q - same signs hanging down from ceiling, people walking round in same aprons etc. etc.

Miss my Kmart They got rid of all of them in Texas, first shopping I did when arriving here in 97 was KMart in Plano, we had taken an empty flat - arrived here with 2 suitcases each and so I went there to buy basics, Iron/Ironingboard, Kitchen bowls, Vacuum, etc. etc.

We don;t have Filenes here in Texas, but do have Foley's, Dillards, Penneys, Nordstrams, Macy's, Sears, Lord & Taylor, Sax of 5th, etc. - Think Foley's and Dillards are most like clothes part of John Lewis - but most of our Department stores don't carry that much in household stuff. For overall look and range I would say that Macey's is most like John Lewis....

Sorry - getting boring - probably because I'm bored.......

Pulaski

I don't believe that you can really say that Sears has any British equivalent as they sell pretty much anything and everything - clothing, cosmetics, toys, housewears, kitchenwares, tools, car spares and parts, household appliances, glassware, tableware, cutlery, furniture, electronics, watches and jewelry etc, etc, though they no longer sell houses. Between 1908 and 1940 they would sell you a complete kit for a house, with a serial number on each piece and instructions on how to asemble it. It was shipped on a railroad wagon. I don't think that they sell carpet, though they do sell rugs, and I don't think that they sell paint or other "raw materials" for household DIY projects.

Home Depot tends a little towards a builders merchants - more "tradey", whereas Lowes is a bit more consumer friendly, though in truth they both sell an almost identical product range. But to describe Home Depot or Lowes as "like B&Q" is an insult as both the US stores have much bigger branches and have a considerably wider range of products than B&Q, ... or Great Mills, Homebase, etc. In Lowes or Home Depot you could buy pretty much everything you'd need to build an entire house from concrete and sand for the foundations, a huge range of timber, trusses, engineered timber beams for framing, siding for the exterior, shingles for the roof, to carpet for the floor, water heaters, and kitchen appliances.

Ray

B & Q was supposed to have been started by ex-directors of Home Depot...but I believe Richard Block and David Quayle came over here and just copied it....Its all owned by a french Company now ...

PrincessofWales

I love Target...like Woolworths but bigger and better! Can't keep me away from that place....even if most of what I buy is "tat"

Yosser

Yep, sadly I am a Target (prounced TAR-CHAY) fan also, there is a super target not far from where I live, we actually get our grocerys there as its better quality than walmart but much the same price.
The store is HUGE, with a massive game,DVD, CD and playstation section great for us kids

Home depot and Lowes are my fav, I spend countless hours in there day dreaming that if I win a few grand which De-walt drill and skill saw set would I buy

The customer service is excellent too.

NC Penguin

UK Woolworths = US's Walmart

For the record, I prefer Walmart over Target. However, I'm not down at Walmart every weekend like many Americans.

Is there a US equivalent of Boots the Chemist? I can't think of a chain I know of.




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Ray

Here in West Cental Florida there is either a Walgreens or Eckards drug store on virtually every corner

PrincessofWales

Not convinced that there is a true Boots equivalent here...drug stores here tend to be more like supermarkets selling the standard drugs, cosmetics etc....but then you turn the aisle and find a load of tat like plastic halloween gimmicks...can't imagine that in your local Boots.

I miss Boots, though not the prices.

Anyone found an M&S equivalent?

Jxab12

Here in New York:

Genovese is kinda like boots but with some extra bits (party food)

Wild by Nature is similar to Waitrose in the UK - i.e. a little better than Sainsburys(King Kullen) and Tesco(Waldbaums)

Expo is an upmarket version of Home Depot - owned by the same company I believe - reminds me of Habitat/John Lewis

The electronics stores here are great - Best Buy in particular is like a massive Dixons/Currys and is certainly a favourite of mine.

scotch03

Its got to be Coldstones for Ice Cream - much better than any of these bored woman shops........hehe

Pimpbot

The amount of Walmarts and super Walmarts with have in this area is ridiculous. Its almost like there is one in every neighbourhood. How they all make a profit is beyond me. I have found that Target is great for cheap toilet paper

I also like AJ's, but I think they are just in Arizona. They are kinda like an upmarket grocery store. Their fresh meats, alcohol and sweets sections are something to behold!.

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Where else on the internet could we find quality information like this???

edwords

Trader Joe's is good, too.