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Do you remember the days when, with shopping basket in hand, you went to the local shops to ‘do the messages’? A wander along your local high street allowed a visit to the butcher, baker, dress shop, grocers, fishmonger, post office, haberdashers etc.

Those days are pretty much gone and the era of internet shopping for everything has almost taken over, or at the very least, one visit to a vast supermarket once every couple of weeks to stock up.

The charm has gone; the personal service has gone…nostalgia is a wonderful thing. However, you can recapture a little of that bygone era with a visit to The Postings shopping centre in Kirkcaldy.
That might sound like an oxymoron, but in actual fact, this is a shopping centre with a difference. Here you will find the dress shop, the grocers, the home-bakers and the fishmongers, the post office, a small shop selling art and craft supplies including all the embroidery thread you could ever need, a place to buy and have your curtains altered, somewhere to get your phone fixed and of course a much needed chemist. There are also a couple of supermarkets – the ubiquitous Tesco and a Farmfoods, as well as two charity shops, a café, a travel agents.
A wander through The Postings is rather like a trip down the local high street of yesteryear and all the better for it. It is a stone’s throw from the newly refurbished Kirkcaldy bus station, which means you are straight off the bus and into the shops. 100,000 people visit the centre every week.
Opened in 1981, many of the same shops are still present which gives the centre continuity, and a couple of spaces which hope to entice some variety.

Hunter’s Home-Bakery set up home in The Postings 20 years ago is still going strong, now doing a great business in making up fresh sandwiches for the busy lunch-time trade as well as the more traditional bread and cakes. The baking is done each day in Glenrothes and brought straight down to the shop.
First Fruits is a centre original and is also a busy place with regular customers returning in the safe knowledge they are getting excellent quality fruit and veg.

Stop by the Plain Fayre Café for a mid morning coffee or cuppa and a catch-up with friends, or stay a while for lunch. You could then head next door to Ramsay Travel and book a holiday.
The Anstruther Fish Shop is one of several branches of this very popular fishmonger, selling locally caught fresh fish.
NB Clothing Ltd was the first shop in The Postings and remains today bringing in the customers, as does Burns and Harris, the stationery and arts and crafts outlet.

You can continue shopping, doing a good turn while browsing (and buying ) in the Marie Curie Cancer or Capability Scotland shops. Get your curtains altered next at L&L Curtains and Alterations. Keep your health in check at Lloyds Pharmacy where you buy supplies, get yourself tested or checked and speak to a pharmacist.

Tesco and Farmfoods speak for themselves, but having wandered the length of The Postings, you will eventually come to the main Post Office so you can take care of renewing your passport, TV licence or taxing your car and head home happy after a successful shopping trip, basket full and messages done.