Vendors, Get Your Act Together...
OK, I need to warn you, this is a rant...
I went shopping today at lunch time, in the vain hope that I could buy some shaving cream. Three shops, all I could find is pressurised cans and that "Shave' (brown tube) cream (I'm not sure of the brand). I had the misguided hope that I might be able to buy Tabac shave soap, but of course, I came up empty handed.
I learnt here the other day that the prices for straight razors in American antique shops have gone up due to the 'known' resurgence in the popularity of straight razor shaving. Now I've no desire for straight razor shaving to be the 'thing' of the herd (as I don't wish to join the 'herd') but if this is the case one would have thought that someone in the Australian retail industry would have cottoned on and started to stock REAL shaving cream by now. The need surely is not linked to only straight razor shaving, but also wet shaving in general (DE, etc).
Men's Biz is a fine on-line retail store, but even they don't have some products I want, and I don't really want to wait for the e-cheque to clear and then for delivery (though delivery from Melbourne to SA is remarkably fast). And for those products Men's Biz don't stock, I have to wait almost a MONTH!
End of rant.