Q:

What is a natural French phrase for 'As if I could find them in just about any shop!'

Having consulted the online dictionaries, I tried to come up with a French phrase for 'As if I could find them in just about any shop!', but I can't think of an appropriate phrase describing the difficulty in finding some sold-out products which my friend would like to get her hands on. I would like to say a thing like this.

As if I could find them in just about any shop! I'd like to make her happy, but going all over the city to look for them?!

A:

Although there are probably many more ways to phrase this, I'd suggest the following:

Comme si je pouvais les trouver au coin de la rue.

I can also think about this one, which has quite a few hits, and whose meaning is a bit closer to the original sentence:

Comme si je pouvais les trouver dans la première boutique venue.

Literally, “in the first shop that comes by”.

