cheerful_deviant
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This just boggles my mind. If a guy doesn't like shopping with his wife, then why is he going? If you're not spending time with her but instead sitting in front of a TV watching sports in a Daddy Nursery, you may as well have stayed home. Being with my wife when she is shopping for shoes may not be my favorite activity, but I can handle it once in a while. This all just seems a little foolish to me.
The full article is here.
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Store’s ‘men’s nurseries’ offer a respite
In London, reluctant male shoppers find a sanctuary
By Victoria Whall
Reporter
NBC News
Updated: 8:45 a.m. ET Dec. 23, 2004
LONDON - The days when men trail after their wives and girlfriends during the holiday shopping season may be gone forever.
This year a particularly thoughtful British department store has created a place where women can leave their men while they shop: a sort of nursery for grown men.
Marks and Spencer, which has clothed Britons for decades, this year set up nurseries in six stores nationwide — just in time for the holiday rush.
The retailer has set up special “chill-out” areas where men can kick back in front of the television while their other halves scour the store for the perfect Christmas gifts. Marks and Spencer offers comfortable sofas, assorted candy, a selection of DVDs to choose from and a small scalextric, or small electric car-racing track, for men to play with.
‘I love it’
At its flagship store at London’s Marble Arch the nursery is on the second floor with the men’s clothes. Tucked away next to rows of striped shirts and across from the slippers, soccer highlights play on the television screen and the scalextric glitters in the light.
The idea gets the thumbs up from a passing couple visiting London from Hong Kong. “I love it,” says the husband. “I always like sitting down and having a rest while she’s shopping.”
His wife agrees. “I think it’s good because then I can leave him while I wander around and he’s not tapping his feet, bored. But he’s a good shopper anyway,” she says. “But sometimes I want to look at more things than he does so it’s good if he can come and watch something he likes, like football.”
As the afternoon proceeds, passing men stop to watch the soccer for a few moments but stop short of stopping and sitting down. The men on the second floor are taking their shopping seriously this week. Rather than vegging in front of the television, they seem to be, well, shopping.
The full article is here.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Store’s ‘men’s nurseries’ offer a respite
In London, reluctant male shoppers find a sanctuary
By Victoria Whall
Reporter
NBC News
Updated: 8:45 a.m. ET Dec. 23, 2004
LONDON - The days when men trail after their wives and girlfriends during the holiday shopping season may be gone forever.
This year a particularly thoughtful British department store has created a place where women can leave their men while they shop: a sort of nursery for grown men.
Marks and Spencer, which has clothed Britons for decades, this year set up nurseries in six stores nationwide — just in time for the holiday rush.
The retailer has set up special “chill-out” areas where men can kick back in front of the television while their other halves scour the store for the perfect Christmas gifts. Marks and Spencer offers comfortable sofas, assorted candy, a selection of DVDs to choose from and a small scalextric, or small electric car-racing track, for men to play with.
‘I love it’
At its flagship store at London’s Marble Arch the nursery is on the second floor with the men’s clothes. Tucked away next to rows of striped shirts and across from the slippers, soccer highlights play on the television screen and the scalextric glitters in the light.
The idea gets the thumbs up from a passing couple visiting London from Hong Kong. “I love it,” says the husband. “I always like sitting down and having a rest while she’s shopping.”
His wife agrees. “I think it’s good because then I can leave him while I wander around and he’s not tapping his feet, bored. But he’s a good shopper anyway,” she says. “But sometimes I want to look at more things than he does so it’s good if he can come and watch something he likes, like football.”
As the afternoon proceeds, passing men stop to watch the soccer for a few moments but stop short of stopping and sitting down. The men on the second floor are taking their shopping seriously this week. Rather than vegging in front of the television, they seem to be, well, shopping.
