to think Primark is the nearest thing to hell?

[JennifersBody]

Always packed with people. Every time I enter it there is always someone having an argument, or shouting something.

I will trip over at least three pushchairs, and have a couple more rammed into my ankles.

It will take forever to squeeze past the vast amount of people in the aisles.

We will get shoved and bumped - never get an apology.

If you want to try something on prepare to lose a good portion of your day, if you decide to buy it you will lose the other portion of your day.

All I wanted was a pair of jeans.

[strawberrypenguin]

sparkling I think your local Primark is the same as mine

OP I love primark it's great for kids clothes most of DS's clothes (and a good chunk of mine) come from there I've had some of my jumpers for years and they still wash well. Other stuff doesn't last as well but what do you expect for the price.

[Southeastdweller]

My clothes from M&S and Gap have all lasted longer than the crap I bought at Primark, when I had no choice to get their tat due to my low paying job at the time. The designs are better, too.

Each to their own though, yah?

[starfishmummy]

I went in today for only the second time. I remembered why I don't go. But ds is going into hospital so I needed to stock up on pjs.
If he needs more I will ask mil as she likes going there for the bargains

[BackforGood]

It depends on the individual shop. We live about 1/2 way between 2. 1 is a bit like the OP describes. The other is excellent. I love the vfm I get in Primark.

[Lyftiduft]

I love Primark for one thing- toddler boy skinny fit coloured chinos and jeans that have tiny waists, account for not really having a bottom unless wearing a nappy, and do up with a popper. DS has every colour because they are about the only trousers from any shop that actually fit him!

The shop and shopping experience itself is hell but some of the products are ok.

[Chandon]

Haha, go to the one in Winchester, such a posh town, Primark almost empty when I was there.

Made me smile. The White Company however was heaving!

[usualsuspect]

I walk passed the white company,look at the prices and think they are having a laugh.

[starsandunicorns]

Most of my dds and mine clothes are from Primark. I have bra sets that are six yrs old. I cant afford to buy stuff at Boden even H and M are pricey for me pefer Primark to Next. I have tshirts that have been worn for 4 summers and still good.

Now my town is at last getting a Primark but I love the one in Liverpool If i do a Primark shop I get early and am there when the doors open.

[TheChaoGoesMu]

Crikey shelly I've been living under a rock today I think and haven't followed the news at all. Thats bloody awful.

[LadyBeagleEyes]

The Inverness store is fine, just a normal shopping experience really.
Peace and Love.

[CherylTrole]

Love these threads, always seperates the wheat from the chaff I shop in a huge variety of shops dont care what that makes me. It saddens me to see the snobbery that exists about Primark and the people who are afraid to be seen in it in case one thinks one is a lower class type

[Southeastdweller]

What's snobby about thinking the clothes there are shite?

[Blossomgirl]

yanbu because it is, oh yes it is ~I'm an only-once survivor I'd rather crochet ds's next pjs out of cotton than cross that threshold again

[Blossomgirl]

not a snob, I'm right up their demographic. Too broke to go in shopping where the big shops are usually so seemed like I ought when I found myself in Bristol. No it's just wrong, it's like walking in through the screen of a TV woooh altered reality stuff run, you bet!

[KatyTheCleaningLady]

Look, I happily buy all sorts of clothes at Asda, so I'm not a snob when I say that most of what Primark sells is hideous crap, with a few treasures worth seeking out in the hopes that when you do find something it doesn't have bizarre epulates or something tacked on.

[agnesf]

Sports Direct is much more hell like. All the rails so close together you can hardly move. All sizes all jumbled up and enough polyester to generate sufficient static electricity to power a small town. And even worse when you buy something on line they send you a free gift of a mug the size of a bucket or in the shop they give you a bag the size of a single man tent.

Worst of all is the one in Lewisham where you have to hand in all your other shopping to a man on the door to stop you shoplifting.

[AmberLeaf]

What's snobby about thinking the clothes there are shite?

Do you think all high st clothes shops are shite?

Because there is little difference at high st level.

[LinusVanPelt]

I can't believe that people are trying to shut Shelly up about the factory collapse. It happened TODAY. It is still going on, hundreds of people right now are waiting for news of their relatives who haven't emerged as the rescue efforts turn into a recovery operation.

And here's a thread about Primark, and someone mentions the sweatshops and is told to go start her own thread because people don't want an ethical debate.

Unbelievable.

[cantspel]

Marks and Spencer's, Next, Ralph Lauren, DKNY, GAP, Converse, Banana Republic, Land's End, Levi's and Zara all use sweatshops in Asia or in the case of Zara Bolivia.

This thread is pure snobbery and not a case of refusing to shop there due to any ethical concerns.

[AmberLeaf]

Is there a thread about the factory collapse Linus?

[runningforme]

what cantspel said

[EmpressOfThe7OceansLovesMN]

I looked all over London for jeans and the ones that fitted me best were the skinny Primark ones, 8 short. I like their plain T-shirts too.

Some Sports Direct stuff is all right... But who, WHO sends their child out with Golddigga written on her arse???

[Sparklingbrook]

Empress. Sports Direct stuff is ok on the whole but the shopping experience is dreadful.

[Sparklingbrook]

And I don't mind an ethical debate, but not on this thread discussing primarily the shopping experience in Primark. Link to the new thread about the factory collapse?

[Southeastdweller]

amber Some people here clearly don't understand what the word snobbery means and no I don't believe all high street clothing is shite.