To shudder in horror when I walk past Edinburgh Woollen Mill?

[MrsBuntyCuldeSacPariah2]

Does anyone actually go in there and come out alive?

[Groovee]

YABU they give people jobs and they don't blare that foul music the tacky shops do :o

[iklboo]

Aaaargh. The lavender! The lavenderrrrrrrrrr!

[thefirstmrsrochester]

It's actually 'heather' according to Billy Connolly - heather = scottish beige.
Didn't know there was such a market for the full length (as it to the ground) dress kilt.
Keeps the tourists happy though.

[Itsjustafleshwound]

It's my mum's favourite shop - you don't get such good acrylic/wool like that in SA

[FortiesCromarty]

(Whispers) - Sometimes you can get 100% cashmere v necks at ridiculously cheap prices not that I have a lovely plain grey one I got for £40 oh no

[Loonytoonie]

I've bought some amazing fleece blankets there and at very reasonable prices - and proper thick fleece and not that think stuff you get at IKEA. YANBU [raspberry blowing emoticon]

[Loonytoonie]

not that THIN stuff, not think

[slalomsuki]

I agree on the cheap cashmere fron. The one at the Gretna outlet centre sells cashmere samples cheap and they are usually one offs. They did some fab linen in Feb at 2 shirts for £10.

But I know I will now be persona non grata for admitting to linen on here

[Shoutymomma]

Linen is great! Anything that is supposed to look crumpled gets my vote.

[BleurghUna]

YABU. You don't have to buy any of that stuff. Even when you're 85! They know their target market, and it must sell or they wouldn't make it.

[ToriaPumpkinPasty]

Groovee the one next door to my place of employment plays pipe music all day every day from speakers at their front door. One day I will take the speakers and feed them to the manager...

[catgirl1976]

Shudder away. Is a strange shop but I think it is for the eldery and they like it. Bust YANBU to shudder. The tartan...the shortbread...the horrid knitwear.....I think it is awaiting us all though like tena pads and practical shoes :(

[joric]

For some strange reason there is nothing I actually want to buy there.
although I was tempted by the 'personalised' pen set, mug, fridge magnet, keyring, glasses case, correspondence set......I saw in there yesterday

[lachesis]

Good! Stay out. Some amazing bargain in there. I got DD1 this sheepskin rug she wanted for about £20, on offer at the beginning of summer.

YY to proper fleece, usually on offer. And good cashmere.

[pranma]

I am 67
I am therefore 'elderly'
I shop in EWM and Monsoon and East and Laura Ashley and M&S...

[Ivortheengine8]

My mums fav shop too. It makes me feel classy when I enter a EWM shop

[ReshapeWhileDamp]

I go in there to buy Edinburgh Rock for my mum. And look at the cashmere on offer, though it normally seems to be in colours I'd never entertain in knitwear - royal blue, postbox red, pale pink etc.

[LordOfTheFlies]

Looks furtively in wardrobe at my M&S sweaters (none cashmere regretably but some Cashmillion)
Hmm, royal blue, pillar box red cardi -Classics collection and Oh Yes, pale pink.

I'm fired, right

[fluffywhitekittens]

I got a big box of half price shortbread, yum :)

[TrillianAstra]

Shudder in horror?

You must find shopping very traumatising. Poor you. :)

[MrsAmaretto]

LOL never walk down Callander main street - not only is there an EWM, but many shops copying EWM!

[epeems]

Ha ha. My aunt has just been on the phone to tell me that she got 2 fleeces for the price of one and some tartan bootees.

[lachesis]

Uggh, who goes in the High Street this time of year, unless they have to work there or they're drunk?