Made in the UK

In Szentes there are quite a number of retail shops that advertise their shop front with UK and/or German flags. If you don't mind out of season fashion and you want value for money quality clothing, then why not shop here?
But someone told me that the clothings /accessories are in fact 2nd hand..hmmm, well if it is in good condition, why not recycle it, right?

**Update
Gerald of Hyde DP raised an interesting issue on 2nd-hand clothing. Read it in the comment box to find out more.

Antikvárium @ Pólya Street

Not too long ago, we discovered this antikvárium (Hungarian for second-hand book shop). If not mistaken, this is the only surviving one in town. As you can see the place is cramped which gave me a headache initially but I found 2 books within minutes of browsing! *satisfied*
The owner is a friendly chap (who keeps talking!). He told us that he prefers to trade for collections of pooms and classics. Erm... hopefully, he'll continue to carry other catergories for our sakes ;)

*recycled post from my other photoblog.

New vs Old

Exactly a year ago, an international mega market finally arrived in town. I know I was pretty excited because that was a more familiar style of shopping for me. All of sudden neigbourhood supermarts, such as this one, livelihood were threatened. One year on, fortunately things are still looking good for our neighbourly shop, and it did made some improvements. Strangely, now I'm more attach to this shop than the mega one.

pssst...
I'm participating internet shut down day which is today . To deal with my withdrawal, we planned a day trip out of town to watch movie "300" . Will check out your posts on Sunday.
Have a nice weekened, everyone!

same old, same old...

some old news (2005) to share..

When this asian store opens (6th in the neighbourhood) , the town council received criticism from local traders for approving too many asian stores (mainly clothing). But the local government has no authority in rejecting these businesses as it is the national policy to accept such type of investments.

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Since then, 2 new asian stores have popped-up, another 2 have packed-up. All this while the local clothing shops remain unchanged. I guess the pie is big enough for everyone afterall (ok, perhaps marginalised). But if you ask me should we add more? my answer is No! give me something other than clothes, please!
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Retail therapy

Growing up in the city, every weekend I used to need my dose of retail therapy to help me unwind. Surprisingly without any mega malls or shopping centres here, I'm coping just fine. What we have in the town is some stand alone boutiques, the most posh is this Italian brand of women's wear. What do you do to unwind?

*Many thanks to Kala of Honolulu for helping me with the settings of this template :)

We have a Box too

* Monday Mar,27 2006*
Meet Box no.57 ! Yup, Tesco finally makes it way to our humble town. Obviously the arrival of the giant is not welcoming news to small retailers here :/

What is so bad about the box? ..more jobs , local vendors get orders (part of the agreement), convenient 24 hours shopping, a place to go on Sundays (where everywhere is close)......

Personally, me and my partner get to exercise a lot more by walking there and oh not forgeting, they offer tastier chinese food among other outlets,to ease my cravings :)