80s/90s shops

[wetasstenalady]

Feeling a bit nostalgic today I will start- every good shopping trip would involve a visit to Bay Trading and Snob

Blockbuster for renting videos.

Diesel
Levi store
Red or dead
Hooch
Fruit of the loom
Oasis market brum

I had a Saturday job in rádio rentals in about 1981, just as videos came out and people still rented their TVs

Razzle Dazzle for jewellery that turned your skin green. Might have just been a Scottish store?

Was it Covent Garden General Store that had bright yellow cardboard bags?

Also Quiggins in Liverpool..! Heaven

Owen owen

As a teenager/young adult, I would buy most of my clothes from the market, it was huge, there were dozens of clothes, shoes, makeup & bag stalls. I literally had at least one new outfit a week even on YTS pay. Or stand alone clothes shops in our town centre. All have gone now, it's big chains or all online 😢

Zoo
Girls About Town
Great Mills
Do It All

Just remembered Ratners the Jewellers which was very popular until Gerald Ratner said in a speech "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap."[6]
He compounded this by going on to remark that one of the sets of earrings was "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long"

Going out on a limb here (Brighton late 70s) but Fiorucci was our Holy Grail!

@CoconutGrove the Ratner speech was fantastic 😂

Clothes shops for me were New Look, Bay, MK One and the holy grails were Jane Norman, Kookai, Pilot and the oh so sophisticated Morgan!

Rumbelows and Radio Rentals for Electrical goods.

sparklingbrook the Oasis market was everything on a trip to Birmingham! And the Next to Nothing store.

We had a shop called Fashion Floor where I lived that was a bit like What Everyone Wants (had one of those too) and I used to go there, or to Rowfers (alternative shop with joss sticks, handcuffs and hippy clothes) for most of my stuff. I was never one for Miss Selfridge, Top Shop, Jane Norman - far too mainstream for me. How pretentious I was!

Pre teen tammy girl , later on c & a, bay trading , mk one, also as a 12/13/14 teenager a lot from weston international market , kempton , . Older teenager miss selfridge , river island and debenhams with all brands it had .
When you had a choice , so much less choice on high street
Also when had ds was adams and woolworths etc to get clothes from

The Corn Exchange in Manchester

And Afflecks (still there but not the same)

Famous Army Stores, where I bought my first Dr Martens.

Getting your gig tickets from an actual outlet - I remember the days of queuing outside the box office of the local theatre for tickets to see Wet Wet Wet and Meatloaf at the NEC. They sold band merch there too and posters, cheaper than Athena. I miss those days.

Midland Educational - stationery galore!

Modmart, which became Hitchens (not sure if this is just a Brummie thing though)

Our Price
Chelsea Girl
Andy Cash Records (again, maybe a Brummie thing)
Wimbush/Braggs (now Greggs)
Walter Smith Butchers

And yy to Oasis Market in Birmingham

Lots of Brummies on this thread!

I remember so clearly walking through the old Bull ring, with its low ceilings and dodgy flourescent lighting and cheap as chips electrical goods stores. Out the other side on the ramp down to the markets was a massive two floor Mark One with this incredible bargain basement where the changing rooms were communal sweaty crowded oven like pits that somehow we kept going back to as teens in the 80s. Then you'd walk down through the markets and into the rag market which was a treasure trove and the old bullring markets, I can see them so clearly in my head, each stall marked out with that very eighties font above it. Then we'd wander back and up to the new Palisades where we'd go up and down in the glass lifts just because.

@Madhairday fellow Bullring weekend shopper as a teenager here! Many Saturdays spent taking the train in and going to every single department store Beauty counter with my friend and asking if they had any free samples! 😂

I remember Oasis market but I'd forgotten that was what it was called!

Ah yes! Covent Garden General Store! Used to love going to their cafeteria. I think they did things like 47 different types of mung bean etc. Which reminds me of Cranks. It's not really a shop of course. Homity Pie and hummus and whole meal bread that kept you going for a week. Cranks had an definitive smell. (Maybe mashed yeast?). Strange that those are what I remember as I wasn't a veggie. I think it made me feel I was being very healthy.

We could have a thread about restaurants, cafes etc that have gone bust ....

I’ll add coppernob, I loved their clothes and was gutted when they closed.

Stolen from Ivor (could be purely a Northern thing)

There was one on Oxford Street in London.

Anyone remember Mexx?

Yes. I'd forgotten Saxone, though. I used to love Saxone.

Eatons and Sears, two large Canadian department stores that were around for years and years. Both gone. I miss them mostly at this time of year as they had huge "Toyland" areas where it was fun to go as a child, and to take your child when you grew up.

Also, Woodward's, another department store based in Vancouver. It was a destination in itself. we used to drive miles to shop at their Food Floor. There was a big neon "W" that rotated on top of the store. It is still part of the Vancouver skyline at night because when the Woodward's building was redeveloped it was preserved.

I still cherish my treetop angel bought at a post-Christmas sale at Woodward's in downtown Vancouver.

I’ll add coppernob, I loved their clothes and was gutted when they closed

Oh god - Coppernob! Yes, they were nice, weren't they? A bit boho-hippy.