This is Thomas M Disch's Descending
A chap goes to a store for his shopping, and gets distracted on the way out, reading Vanity Fair. When he gets to the bottom of each escalator, he's turning onto the next one automatically, not realising that he's descended rather too far.
Most of the story deals with him figuring out how he's going to walk up an unknown quantity of down escalators to get back out again.
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