When's the last time you went in an actual Debenham's store?

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It was half a decade ago for me. I don't buy from them online either.

They don't seem to have moved with the times?

15 years ago. Our local store ( Wimbledon) was horrific. Scruffy, untidy, unloved.

A few years back. I remember it being really untidy and disorganised.

I bought some maternity jeans in there. My kids are 8 now! The very, very last time I was in it was to go to the cafe and I saw a mouse running across the floor

As a customer- a decade? Minimum. As a handy cut through from the big carpark to the rest of the shops? Maybe last year.

Not very long ago actually. I went for a sniff round the perfume department and was resoundingly ignored by every staff member and then spoken to rudely. I went to the Chanel concession instead and they were lovely.

Our closest store is badly laid out and gloomy. The clothing department looks like a jumble sale.

Desperately sad for all the staff involved.

Oh I still quite like a bit of Debenhams. I like the kids clothes and I enjoy the ladies fashion concessions!

It is (was?) one of thise shops that I walk though and browse around quite often but never actually buy anything from...

Recently! Great toilets. Also, buy clothes when on sale and love their baby clothes. I will miss them.

Had to walk through one recently to get to the car park...walked through menswear. It's like a 90s timewarp and the stuff was bloody expensive...I kept saying to dh, why would you spend £90 on a jumper in Debenhams?!

Last year. I ventured into the Nottingham store, on the Old Market Square. It was a tatty, run-down dump. The place looked like it hadn’t had a penny spent on maintenance or decor, never mind refurbishment, since the 90s. The layout was a mess, the stock was poor. It was just depressing and hopeless.

I’m not in the least surprised that Debenhams has reached the end of the road. I sympathise with the staff, obviously, but businesses need to move with the times. They didn’t, and they deserved to fail.

They had some nice Christmas bits for kids though

This morning oddly enough. Didn’t buy anything on this occasion. The quickest way from the shopping centre car park to the shops is to go through Debenhams. I have bought a few things there in the past though. I tend to buy bras there and they have some nice Christmas stuff in at the moment.

I used to walk through quite a lot because our local one was a good cut through between shops.

I vaguely remember buying something from the Cheshire Oaks one at Christmas time a few years ago.

I also miss BHS and C&A!

In the summer, to look for school uniform. Their school clothes selection was shite. Ended up going to Asda instead.

I used to pop into the Oxford Street one quite a lot as it was really good. I know of other, more local branches that were looking very dated though.

Recently, to pick up some click and collect stuff. I also got some Christmas bits there last year. Ours in Edinburgh is pretty nice.

Pre-pandemic, but quite frequently then. We have an M&S but Debenhams is the other big store in our local town so it gives access to a range of clothes we wouldn't otherwisr have - Manteray, John Rochas, Principles etc.

I've popped in occasionally over the past few years to pick up make up, and it's usually it's make up items that I already use and have run out so just need to pick up suppliers rather than browse in store.

A few years I think. The last time I went in, they did the hard sell for the card. O had to keep refusing, then went all stroppy on me and rude, while taking off the bonus bits of my total I hadn't asked for. I left feeling quite freaked by the experience.

Scary place.

It is our only major store. We have no m and a and no John Lewis. Debenhams had great bras and that alone is going to be a bloody nightmare!

Last Christmas but I quite often order(ed) stuff online. Our local branch was in the first round of closures. It was next to a House of Fraser which also looked like it was on borrowed time.

Huge shame.

I loved Debenhams and used to buy a lot of school uniform and children’s clothes online from them, and always called into store during Christmas shopping trips to buy pyjamas / bras for my mum and gran or when I wanted a dress or shoes for a wedding (they used to do Coast and Quiz and that type of thing!). It wasn’t until I heard on the radio that they’d gone through that I realised I haven’t actually been in one for about two years.

I had vouchers for Christmas 2 years ago so eventually spent them last November. Just got some T-shirt’s and underwear. I could have done with crockery and bedding but both seemed really expensive relative to elsewhere.

In person...February. I used to go in every weekend. It’s a flagship store in my local mall and the same in the shopping centre in the other nearest town.

Online? Had a delivery arrive today.

I often shopped from them. I liked Principles, Oasis, Warehouse etc. Good for cosmetics, fragrance, home wares. Liked the Ted Baker lingerie and loungewear. 9 by Savannah Miller stuff was nice. I’d also buy my Levi’s there and Fred Perry for the men in my family.

I like/liked Debenhams. Same for HOF, John Lewis etc. Even think M&S is ok for a lot of things.

Hate all the Hush/Monki/Lucy and Yak stuff lauded on here and see online shopping as a joyless necessary evil rather than a pleasurable experience. Much prefer shopping in person. Gutted so many outlets have gone in one fell swoop. I still shopped at Topshop/Outfit etc.