That's because you had answered the question - eeh, you can be high maintenance sometimes... and the answer was pretty much what I expected :)
+1 for the furry moccasins, I wouldn't be without mine
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I spend six days a week out in the real world, that's enough for me :) But I find going out shopping for clothes to be a rather soulless experience, thankfully it only happens occasionally, when I'm with Mrs. P. She is quite sympathetic to my plight, and can see when I'm losing the will to live - which is usually during the walk from the car park to the shops.
The only shops I'm interested in browsing are tools, hifi or record shops. For anything else I have a 3-step process: 1. Decide what I want to buy 2. Go to shop and buy it 3. Go home or to the pub.
I'm sure I'm not the only bloke who does this.
I don't know of any shops where you can browse for hifi. When I was younger I loathed shopping for clothes or shoes, now I quite enjoy browsing.
Shopping on-line is no doubt convenient, but as has been remarked elsewhere, you have to know exactly what you want and by whom the particular item is made: there is an awful lot or meretricious poorly made crap available, whose quality is difficult to assess simply by looking at a photo.
Also you loose the 'serendipity' aspect when shopping on line. The likes of Amazon may apply some fuzzy logic algorithms to come up with "Customers who bought (a particular item), also bought this/these". But that only suggests something similar. I like to go into a bookshop (an increasingly endangered establishment) to browse and come out buying something that caught my attention and came across by accident. That is the joy of browsing.
You're right about the hifi shops. It's been a number of years now. Though I do occasionally pop into Richer Sounds if I'm passing...
I actually buy very little online, mostly just replacement blades/bits for my power tools. Usually I look online for which places sell what I'm seeking, then go to the nearest physical shop that stocks it.