Why is it that airports offer a load of rubbish that nobody wants to buy but they don't sell the sorts of things you might actually need?
Wardrobe planning failure meant I had to wear white trousers with cotton gusset pantyhose underneath (even less comfortable and attractive than it sounds). No problem I thought, I'll buy a pair of plain white or beige pants at Gatwick.
Not one of the multitude of shops in the North Terminal sells functional ladies underwear. I could have bought an Olympic branded teddy bear, any amount of perfume, raffle tickets for a luxury car, a computer, binoculars, running gear (who does that on holiday?), luggage (bit late after checkin you would have thought), a giant Toblerone - but no simple underwear.
What I want to know is who actually buys anything at these shops? Even with a flight delay of 8 hours last year I wasn't tempted.
It seems to me that the luxury and mystery of air travel is very much a thing of the past, when will airport retailer planners catch up? Most of my fellow travellers looked as though they would be more at home in Poundland than Harrods.
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