Another potential loss for the high street: Claire's Accessories

Far too much to explain on here. But basically they didn't consult as they should have, or make it known their plans would involve making 2 floors of the main town carpark (next door) private parking for the flats. It's not like the car park is half empty either.

Gonna go against the grain and say I'll be sad to see it go. I agree with the plastic and price comments but the number of times I've been able to buy emergency piercing jewellery when I've lost some on holiday made them worth it to me 🤣

Green space, parks, benches, coffee shops, healthier food outlets interwoven into high street area with shops

What exactly are you envisaging as a 'recreational area' though?

In what way was it sneakily through the back door?

It’s cheap tat that you can buy cheaper online. They need to lower prices or improve quality and have a bigger easily accessible online presence to survive.

No one has said it's the only thing their tweens/teens do! But it is one thing they enjoy doing, it can be a good way for them to get some independence - it's not about 1 chain of shops, it's about the death of town centre, the high street. Many are already derelict & not places you'd now allow your tweens to wander around alone (while you sit nearby with a coffee)

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Similar story here. I agree with the PP who suggested making the high street a recreational area. This would be great for mental health, and a sense of community and also support high street shops. It’s a way of life that’s being lost that I’m most sad about. I hate how everything has gone digital 😕

Yep. Well sleep walk into them all being turned into flats!

my nearest town is turning another section of the high street into flats. Sneakily through the back door.

Oh you've got to be kidding me
I shop there loads
Get pretty much all my earrings from there
And hair accessories
Really don't want them to close down!!

Not 'the product' the experience for children. The experience of saving up pocket money or spending birthday money in a real shop, not online. The way the shop appeals to children.

i am sorry for the staff

My daughter and her friends love it. It's very popular with that age group. Unfortunately it's very expensive so it's look and not buy but hope. The sale is amazing there. Very sad about the staff as they always very nice.

the high street, and for youngsters, shopping together, is a community and a social experience and when there’s nothing but empty buildings, it will be too late.

I am sad for the loss of jobs and no one wants empty buildings, but I would like teens/tweens doing something other than shopping as a “community and social experience”. I am very sad about the loss of so-called third spaces for that reason, but a store selling overpriced stuff and marketing itself quite cynically to a group which can’t really assess value for money? I think it’s fine to go.

Exactly @Theonewhogotthecake, the same thing would be £2 or less in Home Bargains.

Hopefully high streets will start selling things worth buying so that people want to go there and shop.

I loved it as a kid and my DD loves it now but they are terribly overpriced and their piercing station is awful.

Although I’m sad about the jobs that are being lost, as a shop I hate it. Vastly overpriced tat (£10 + for a tiny, plastic ice cream lip balm). Won’t also miss the pestering.

Sad for the high street 🙁

I used to go to Claire’s as a little girl.

I am sad for the death of the high street and the community it can bring.

Now all the cheap stuff ie shein gets sold on line

We may wake up and realise quality over quantity one day

Yeah... questioning anyone's use of the word 'loss' in relation to their products.

Although of course I'm genuinely sorry for those losing jobs.

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

Say 'tat' ONE MORE TIME

So sad that so many people are going to be losing their jobs at an already difficult time. Lots of retail jobs like that are very competitive nowadays and hard to get so I doubt all of them will be able to find new jobs. Feel very sad about Claire’s closing, like a real end of an era. Was a huge part of my childhood and I’m sure many others. Think it speaks volumes about the loss of the high street. Really hope there’s a last minute solution and it can pull through.

I had my second ear piercing done at Claire’s, had no trouble with my ears at all.

Both my DDs had their first and second piercings done there too. They haven’t had any trouble with their ears either, and it’s been 24 years for DD1, and 22 for DD2.

They’re 34 and 32 now.