At a certain age a girlie shopping day tends to focus on comfy shoes and a potter through a cook shop lured in by shiny pans and gadgets that never existed in our youthful cooking days.
The staff at The Outlet, Banbridge, understand customers. Offering help then leaving us to happily dither over choosing helpful things/stocking fillers. They were friendly and chatty, which is our local way, although craic as essential to selling is so often frowned upon by by big non-Irish companies