Does anyone NOT have issues while shopping?

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Going with my mother on sale days is annoying. Usually it's we're going out to get food for the cat and it's a dozen cans and it's heavy so I come along to carry it; however, we end up going shopping. It's horrible I try to rush her along and the whole time my voice is shaking because I'm just so overwhelmed.

I do shop sometimes but I do Black Friday because we don't have that in Canada. It depends, I don't like shopping with people who go into a store for 2 hours and get nothing, I like going to a bunch of different stores for 10 minutes and get something when I go.

I don't have issues with crowds, lights, loud noises so maybe that's why.

I also don't have issues with concerts if I like the music or sporting events or movies. This is actually probably the main reason why I'm not sure if I actually have it.

no, i decide what to get based on needs an resources, i go, I buy, i return. No issues

I like to shop when its not crowded (big crowds I cannot do) but I am also a compulsive shopper, so that creates problems in itself.

I had my very first Black Friday experience a few days ago and I couldn't believe how many people will line up outside a Super Target at three thirty in the morning in twenty degree temperatures just for a forty inch Westinghouse (???never even heard of that brand until then) LED television. Not only that, but the tickets employees were handing out for the tvs were long gone before they got to my part of the line which was all the way down the front of the store around the side and in the back near the shipping lanes. It was just ridiculous.
The people were so unbelievably rude, too! I was there to get a Casio keyboard that was discounted forty dollars as a door buster deal and an electronic drum pad for $35. There were so many people around me when I entered the store I didn't see the boxes of keyboards in front of me and took off cart in tow to the electronics department,totally surrounded by people with red carts. I ditched my cart so I could squirm through and locate the keyboards. I didn't see them anywhere, just televisions, video games, dvds, cds. It seemed endless and people were not budging a centimeter, not even for someone who was simply trying to locate something. not looking to buy a television at all. I thought they should have been polite enough to let me walk amongst them but they acted like I was a major intrusion. One of them. who was trying to mule her way through accused me of pushing people out of the way when I was just trying to walk through them!
After consulting an employee, I found some keyboards but had no idea if they were the ones that were on sale for sixty bucks. I didn't have a cart with me and the boxes with the keyboards inside were really heavy. On the way to the carts which I couldn't get inside electronics anyway, I spied a woman with a keyboard in her cart. Low and behold she was breezing through the people at approximately three miles per hour, how I have no idea since I was practically grid locked the whole time...and she had a carts with her, too! Before I could even attempt getting to her so I could ask where she got the keyboard, she was gone. So, I went to retrieve a cart among the many who lay abandoned in the front of the store. After I got one, I saw the lady with the keyboard in her cart again but had trouble getting close enough to ask her the one simple question "where did you get that?' So, I ditched my cart a second time. This time it was close by, just a few feet behind me. I knew if I didn't hurry my chance would briskly disappear down the flowing river of shoppers. I was finally able to ask and she told me they were in the very front, right where we walked in and I felt like a dufus for not noticing them. I was busy trying to get to electronics, I didn't expect this huge display with a hundred or so boxes of the things. I finally snagged one and was out of there. My car was parked at the very back of the spacious lot. When I got there, parking spaces were in short supply since the lot was almost entirely full.
I can't believe what some people will do for a savings of $250. They had to been waiting since around twelve midnight for
that store to open. I got there at three thirty and felt like turning around and going home. I knew they wouldn't have any keyboards by the time I got there. I decided to wait in line anyway, hoping my trip wouldn't be a total waste of time. I was surprised they had so many of them. My trip was a success. I got the two things advertised in the sales circular and at good prices.
I don't know if I want to go back next year, though

I dislike the automated checkout machines and their computer voices that just won't stop talking to me especially when they repeat everything they say twice. I will swat at the on screen buttons wildly just to make that automated voice shut up. Sometimes when I get really frustrated with them I even talk back to the voice, telling it such things as, "yeah, yeah I know" or when the machine won't accept my money I will tell it, "go ahead and swallow it".

I don't mind shopping on my own (especially video game stores and bookstores,) but I hate shopping in groups.

I LOVE shopping online, there are BF deals online too without the crowds, rude people, having to guess how to interact with cashiers and plus it gets sent to my front door, so I can do other things than spend gas money hunting these things down. Alot of places are offering free shipping too.

I am dangerous with a computer and a credit card

I enjoy places like Costco, Fry's and Home Depot. I loathe stores like Macy's and Best Buy.

several, including me.

I only have issues with crowds. Sounds inside shopping places have never bothered me I don't think. But all I have to do is follow the feet of whoever I'm with. I think it'd be a lot more difficult if I had to shop alone all the time.

Oh and I also always listen to headphones when I'm out so that might contribute to having less problems with it. And sunglasses.

I don't like shopping in stores (don't mind online shopping). You have to find your way around, remember what aisles items are located in, scan shelves for what you are looking for, and it makes me tired and cranky. Grocery shopping is the worst. The shelves are too packed- visually overwhelming.