Offering the Ultimate Shopping Experience
The latest Bond movie – No Time to Die, is a case in point. Most people, young, middle aged and older are a bit conflicted. They would love to see the movie especially after the rave reviews but the thought of being cooped up in a dark space with lots of other people coughing and spluttering for 160 minutes (yes, it’s that long) does not really appeal.
A couple of my mates have just been to their barber of choice and were really stoked to find that the experience and the return of a haircut that is à la mode made them feel happy. I visited a John Lewis store the first time in more than two years recently. Ok it was after 5:00pm but the store was practically empty. You want there to be a buzz when you go shopping and I am not sure we are back to pre-pandemic norms just now.
What about online I hear you ask. I must confess living outside a major city means that for any serious shopping I have to jump into my car and travel at least half an hour. For that reason, I have become an accomplished online shopper. I shop where the shopping experience is easy and provides me with enough information to make a decent buying decision. One exception was for a pair of binoculars, where online reviews and stores just confused me.
Here at Pines & Needles we have been crafting our Christmas shopping experience for many years and if the title of this blog seems a little big-headed that might because we are confident that we have achieved our goal and do provide the ultimate shopping experience for our customers, both at our pop-up stores and here online.


If you have chosen a beautiful fresh Christmas Tree and find you can’t get it home, we’ll deliver it for you. Oh, dear something has come up and we’re really pushed for time, can you deliver and install it at the same time...no problem! We’ll even decorate it for you too. Our shopping experience is goes beyond that too, we take care of everything if that’s what you need... yup we’ll even come and pick up your tree at the end of the festivities and dispose of it in a sustainable process.
What about online? We think we have that covered well too, but judge for yourself. We’ll deliver our trees, decorations, lights and accessories anywhere in the UK.
Do we provide the ultimate shopping experience? We think it is pretty darned good but then we would!