The premium is too much for me. Why not just use bitstamp or something?

I see. I never had any problems with bistamp. Guess you got unlucky, or I got lucky.

If someone is selling below exchange prices at lbc they won't stay in business very long

cough bitbargain.co.uk cough
also
localbitcoins.com

takes minutes to get bitcoins in the UK not 3-5 days such as the yanks

Why the negative comments? If he crashed it the first night, sure, people would call him all sorts of things but I don't see anything wrong with buying a lambo. Most boy's dream .......... probably just jealousy.

Lambo or pizza ......... the choice is yours

And Bittylicious. It's the most simple exchange IMO. I don't understand how people find it so difficult to get coins, unless you're technically illiterate. Are people that lazy they just actually want somebody to send them coins whilst they do nothing?

Well, that was kind of my original point. I want to be able to buy stuff I like but can't find stores accepting BTC and selling those things.

I have saved a little but willing to spend some like today if I could find a store.

I want to buy a MacBook Pro with with BTC. That is my goal.

Seriously have you looked at gyft?  Gyft will let you instantly turn your BTC into a target gift card which you can spend like cash at the store.  It works beautifully.  You can spend your bitcoins at hundreds of stores this way.  The stores don't lose because Gyft does the BTC to cash conversion so the stores get paid in cash and they don't take the BTC risk.  You get a giftcard at the current BitPay exchange rate which is usually better than if you tried to exchange for fiat, and it is instantly available on your smartphone (or you can print it out) to spend in the store. 

The CVSes in my city are mentally deficient.

The have given me every possible excuse in the book to not have to sell me cigarettes with my gyft card. When stores in the county over (which I visit often) handle it just fine.

Did you even look at the website?  That is the whole point. If you ask "do you accept bitcoin" they may say "bitcoin what?"... the first time then next time, "bitcoin again?  i've heard of that", then next time someone asks  "I'd better find out about what bitcoin is since people keep asking about it", then next time ... "Yes we take bitcoin!"