Flash Fiction: "The Pitfalls of Shopping Locally" By Andrew Anderson
Take my advice and don’t shop locally. You’re shocked? I know, everyone says that shopping locally will save the high street, crucial to stopping those capitalist conglomerates taking over the planet. Blah, blah, blah. Some people (you may know one of these people) even take the choice out of your hands and give you one of those ‘gift vouchers’, forcing you on to the crowded pavements of your own hometown, instead of buying cheap shoes online from the comfort of your bed at 3