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Who exactly are primark, what's their background? All I know about them is that one day we had a C&A and the next it was Primark.
I don't shop there often but today I bought a really nice winter fleece jacket there for £14 - and when they ran it through the machine it came up as only £11, got a few other bits and pieces.
What do you guys think of them?
I don't shop there often but today I bought a really nice winter fleece jacket there for £14 - and when they ran it through the machine it came up as only £11, got a few other bits and pieces.
What do you guys think of them?
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as for the clothes, they're very cheap, resonably good quality and reliable!
They have got some really nice stuff if you can be bothered to push your way through the crowds and then wait hours at the till and changing rooms but for the prices, I guess it's worth it! But no matter what time of day I go its always so busy, especially the Manchester one!!!
Alot of Littlewoods have been taken over by Primark so they are gonna be springing up everywhere soon.
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Ed: link to some of an article about it here. The report was in Ethical Consumer magazine.
They are a bit like the ALDI/LIDL/NETTO of the fashion world!
They pay staff buy in cheap, pile it high and then sell it cheap!
They pay minimum wage and employ mainly students - most of the ones in Mc are foreign. My sisters best friend worked as the window dresser there while she did her Art degree, and she said the staff are treated pretty badly, and payed bottom dollar for doing it.
In terms of their clothes, they are really cheap. They also do bedding and houseware etc. Some of it, you get what you pay for, but there are some OK bits if you shop around. e.g. can get shirt and tie sets for 6quid (ideal for my bosses xmas pressie). They never seem to have the most popular sizes though, and the queues are always massive.
On the whole, not my cup of tea, but they seem to be doing well.
That doesn't surprise me at the price they're selling clothes it must have to cut costs somewhere, having said that I think M&S prices are unethical to the consumer ... :chin:
But I went into a big London M&S a few weeks agoto have a look around and for me there was nothing of interest on their shelves.
BTW For staff at Lidl, Aldi, etc I know when they first came to the UK they paid staff very well, much higher then minimum wage - but that was mainly cos they had no computers or bar code scanning system so the staff members they hired needed to memorise the prices of every single item in the store .. so they must have paid a premium for people with a good memory. The staff they first had when they first opened were amazing, the staff most of them have no are just pretty bog standard
also, i've gone off usc. its full of over-priced boring crap.
What's USC?
it's a shop that sells different brands of clothes e.g. diesel, miss sixty, replay, firetrap.
I was in Becester Shopping Outlet Village and they had loads of designer brand stores there but was so hard to find anything to get excited about!!
Ever since I got some custom made clothes for me on holiday I've gone right off buying clothes off the peg .. can't wait to my next hoiday I'm gonna make loads more clothes and probabaly a couple of suits as well.
If you want a pretty shop, stuff that will last a bit longer, and stuff made with at least a nod and a wink to ethical trading, then places like M&S and Next are much better.
Can't find a web link for it though
To do with ethics... ish... my friend used to work in Primark, and he got paid more hourly there than I did working in a pub.
I love primark. There's not many places that I can afford to buy lots of clothes, but Primark's stuff is relatively fashionable and tends to last as long as I need it too (despite them lacking a petite range).
One of M&S' suppliers did, to be exact. M&S promptly dropped them after it.
M&S stuff isn't (exclusively) made in the UK anymore, and is the worse for it.
Of course it is, but people dont want to pay the extra, they want low price and thats pretty much the most important thing.
Lets face it, most shoppers couldnt give a toss where or by whom their goods are made.
they do nice mini-shorts tho. and knickers. i dont rate their bras, they're weird fitting.
Its good for if you're skint but fancy something new to jazz an outfit up. I really like the bras too, they dont seem weird fitting to me, my favourite bra is from Primark, I stocked up on about 4 of em since they were only like £4 haha
Agreed with the queueing thing though, I wouldnt even attempt to go in the Manchester one on a weekend, its bad enough on weekdays.
The store looked a mess, mainly cos customers were dropping clothes all over the place.
Of course the way they have so many shelves instead of hangers it's bound to happen.
Exactly what I was going to say - just because clothes are cheap to you doesn't mean that someone else isnt' paying the true price of producing them somewhere else along the line.
why is it silly? just because i don't like shopping in a certain shop? i'd rather pay a bit more and know that i'm getting better quality. plus i've been in primark and didn't actually see any nice things.
I think if people go into a particular shop and don't see anything they like it's fair enough.
But I hate it when people use the word quality all the time and don't have a clue what quality actually means, not sayng that's you ... I'm thinking more of a friend of mine to whom pay more = more quality - but ask him why it's better and he aint got an answer.
I would be nice of people started to define quality..
If people are saying clothes from places like Primark are low quality then they should give examples, like it faded inthe wash, the stiching came off or was uneven, it ripped really easily, etc.