My dh and I travel all the time and he is the one who always checks my Travelers Campanion Guide for shops along our way...he goes into every one of them with me..he goes in one direction and I go in the other..he is always trying to spot fabric he thinks I will love before I find it..he comes to me and tells me what he found and where he found it in the shop..he than goes back out to the car or truck and makes his business calls while I finish shopping...we have only had one bad experience in any of them..now mind you my dh looks like a Harley Davidson biker..big and bruly and sometimes dirty if we have been loading and unloading tractors on the way...but most shops are great to us both...and my LQS women love him to pieces...he is a great man and he is very good to me...he buys all my machines..sometimes without me even knowing it....and they have all learned not to say a word if he has been in the shop without me..he is usually up to something very good...hehehe....blessings