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bellamorgan · 14/08/2025 20:17

Our bank is weirdly very open but also operates with no actual cash tills that the people can open. The machines dispense and accept money. But I could grab an employee but they wouldn’t be able to get any cash.

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 19:52

NewYorkSummer · 14/08/2025 19:42

Someone in my city got fatally stabbed inside a bank a few weeks back. In the middle of the afternoon. So you’re best off staying home.

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I heard the same, someone died. I think this is why banks are going online. Less risk to their staff.

NewYorkSummer · 14/08/2025 19:42

bellamorgan · 14/08/2025 14:14

Yes who wants to go into town to shop. It’s filthy, beggars, mugging, dirty changing rooms when they even exist, swearing teens, weed smell and screaming toddlers.

Not a nice experience.

Our city centre smells like genuinely it has a smell. I only go if I have to go inside the bank.

Someone in my city got fatally stabbed inside a bank a few weeks back. In the middle of the afternoon. So you’re best off staying home.

Disneyprincess1973 · 14/08/2025 19:16

I think I read their shops are staying open. They just won't be doing the ordering online anymore. So you can still shop there by going to one of their shops. I loved the ordering online so I'm gutted. It's not tat, they have some lovely things. My daughter loves it there and she collects the Pusheens from there. Yes, you can buy them elsewhere but Claire's pusheens always seem much better.

Momstermash94 · 14/08/2025 16:02

NewYorkSummer · 13/08/2025 15:49

This. The prices are extortionate for saying it’s a shop basically aimed at children.

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Like Smiggle, aimed at children but it costs like £5 for a pencil

purpleme12 · 14/08/2025 15:55

Well I hate buying online.
I like going into town to get things I want/need.
I get my hair accessories and earrings from Claire's. Sometimes a few other bits and pieces. I will not be happy if it closes down

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 15:53

EasternStandard · 14/08/2025 15:49

No I don’t blame you. These recent messages from police or other for others to step in are nuts.

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Yup, this is why I said I don't care if they go under because of how out of touch they are. Why can't they pay for training? Why can't they pay for more equipment? Why can't they pay for more security? They make so much in profits and have astonishing salaries. Yet want the general public to step in for £1. Pathetic if you ask me!

BebbanburgIsMine · 14/08/2025 15:50

Drfosters · 14/08/2025 08:54

my daughter had her piercings done at Claire’s a few weeks ago and had a great experience. We hadn’t planned to do it, but needed up having them done on a whim. The lady there really knew what she was doing and we were pleasantly surprised after hearing so much bad press about it. I ended up having one done as well! Zero issues whatsoever. Not sure what can honestly go wrong but maybe we just had a very knowledgable person. She wasn’t a teenager to be fair and had lots of piercings herself.

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Yeah, our experience was pretty much the same except both my DDs were done as birthday presents, the girls who did the piercings were lovely, and definitely knew what they were doing.

I had my second piercing done there and my tragus, with no issues at all.

I’ll be sad to see them go, and of course it’s devastating for all the staff.

EasternStandard · 14/08/2025 15:49

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 15:35

I was referring to a TikTok video where I saw they were offering customers £1 to report shoplifters. That's how out of touch they are. I'm not putting my life in danger for £1.

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No I don’t blame you. These recent messages from police or other for others to step in are nuts.

FenderStrat · 14/08/2025 15:48

You wouldn't care if they 'go down'
That means the whole work force lose their jobs.
That means 26000 lose their jobs and you don't care.

Okay?

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 15:42

FenderStrat · 14/08/2025 15:40

You stated that you don't care if 26000 people lose their jobs.
Bit harsh, even for Mumsnet.

Okay?

FenderStrat · 14/08/2025 15:40

You stated that you don't care if 26000 people lose their jobs.
Bit harsh, even for Mumsnet.

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 15:35

FenderStrat · 14/08/2025 15:31

Iceland employ 26000 people.

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I was referring to a TikTok video where I saw they were offering customers £1 to report shoplifters. That's how out of touch they are. I'm not putting my life in danger for £1.

FenderStrat · 14/08/2025 15:31

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 14:09

I literally do not care. You need to get a grip and stop being so angry at people like me who don’t have a control of what happens on the high street. Iceland are offering £1 to customers who point out shoplifters. That’s how out of touch they are. If they go down, I don’t care.

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Iceland employ 26000 people.

kc431 · 14/08/2025 15:21

It’s the state of the changing rooms in shops that gets me, there’s massive clumps of dust all over the floor, does anyone ever hoover them?

Needmorelego · 14/08/2025 14:47

MrsSkylerWhite · 14/08/2025 11:36

Yes. Engagement/Wedding ring only. Have never really liked jewellery.

At least they’re natural materials and can be melted down/re-used, passed on.

It’s the waste of resources that I care about. Most of that stuff ends up in landfill.

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I don't throw away anything we've bought from Claire's unless it's broken beyond repair and where I live any plastic that ends up in the regular rubbish gets burned for creating electricity.
So nothing I have bought there should end up in landfill.

PeonyPatch · 14/08/2025 14:37

bellamorgan · 14/08/2025 14:14

Yes who wants to go into town to shop. It’s filthy, beggars, mugging, dirty changing rooms when they even exist, swearing teens, weed smell and screaming toddlers.

Not a nice experience.

Our city centre smells like genuinely it has a smell. I only go if I have to go inside the bank.

This is so true. They have become an absolute toilet. It’s so gross. I once saw a man defecate, yes you read that correctly, in public, in a high street. Broad daylight. GRIM!!

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 14:19

bellamorgan · 14/08/2025 14:14

Yes who wants to go into town to shop. It’s filthy, beggars, mugging, dirty changing rooms when they even exist, swearing teens, weed smell and screaming toddlers.

Not a nice experience.

Our city centre smells like genuinely it has a smell. I only go if I have to go inside the bank.

I’m tired of god damn chuggars and beggars, I barely have any money for myself and family. Even if I did, I wouldn’t give it to them. So annoying.

bellamorgan · 14/08/2025 14:14

Yes who wants to go into town to shop. It’s filthy, beggars, mugging, dirty changing rooms when they even exist, swearing teens, weed smell and screaming toddlers.

Not a nice experience.

Our city centre smells like genuinely it has a smell. I only go if I have to go inside the bank.

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 14:10

kc431 · 14/08/2025 13:33

Same - the high street just isn’t a fun place to go like it used to be. Parking is expensive, the shops are all messy and the changing rooms are ALWAYS dirty with literal balls of dust and hair on the floor in the corners. Unruly screaming kids everywhere - I watched a 5 year old scream blue murder in a shopping centre the other day for a solid 10 minutes over a rucksack display that her mum refused to buy. What’s the appeal? I’d rather shop online and try on at home.

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Exactly! Plus you get free returns at majority of places, some places have stopped this. My idea of fun isn’t this. I’d rather take the kids out to explore the countryside and see views. Take packed lunch and have ice cream bought as a treat.

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 14:09

BondAway25 · 14/08/2025 13:37

No I just don't understand stand why you said 'that was my point' when it wasn't. Your point was about your convenience, not about what you said was your point.

I can't be arsed going back through your posts to pastes them again.

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I literally do not care. You need to get a grip and stop being so angry at people like me who don’t have a control of what happens on the high street. Iceland are offering £1 to customers who point out shoplifters. That’s how out of touch they are. If they go down, I don’t care.

BondAway25 · 14/08/2025 13:37

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 13:19

What do you expect me to do - spend my salary funding the high street and not on my kids? I want convenience, so what?

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No I just don't understand stand why you said 'that was my point' when it wasn't. Your point was about your convenience, not about what you said was your point.

I can't be arsed going back through your posts to pastes them again.

kc431 · 14/08/2025 13:33

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 13:19

What do you expect me to do - spend my salary funding the high street and not on my kids? I want convenience, so what?

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Same - the high street just isn’t a fun place to go like it used to be. Parking is expensive, the shops are all messy and the changing rooms are ALWAYS dirty with literal balls of dust and hair on the floor in the corners. Unruly screaming kids everywhere - I watched a 5 year old scream blue murder in a shopping centre the other day for a solid 10 minutes over a rucksack display that her mum refused to buy. What’s the appeal? I’d rather shop online and try on at home.

LurkThenPost · 14/08/2025 13:19

BondAway25 · 14/08/2025 05:41

How was that 'your point' when it wasn't what you said?

Majority of couples work full time. Online shopping is VERY convenient for bulk ordering and saves hassle taking kids out to run some errands. Plus, parking costs and then petrol. There has been a rise in parking fines too.
What sane parents want to spend their weekends running errands and grocery shopping when I can have it delivered on a weekday? Which means I can save my weekends taking kids out and spending quality time with them

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What do you expect me to do - spend my salary funding the high street and not on my kids? I want convenience, so what?

radiator2 · 14/08/2025 12:13

Autumn38 · 13/08/2025 17:35

The only staff I’ve seen in Claire’s recently are bored looking late- teenage girls snapping gum and shrugging insouciantly at any questions tentatively thrown their way.

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So because they’re teenage girls they deserve to lose their jobs?