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I've started taking my bike into stores with me when i need to quickly pick something up. Sometimes if i only need one thing from one of the big 4 supermarkets i'll walk my bike around the store pick up whatever i need and head off.
This has never raised an eyebrow with the public, security or general employees until today when i attempted to quickly pick up an item from pcworld (don't start). admittedly they were quite good about it, asking me to leave my bike to the side at the front of the store while waiting to pickup my item from the collection point rather than taking it outside, but i somewhat doubt they would have asked the same of someone pushing a pram, and by gosh in london do you have some oversized prams.
Has anyone found that stores are generally accepting of you wheeling your bike around, or do you tend to get told off by the security guard? obviously if the store is tiny it makes a difference but when it's a fricking cavern with more staff than customers....