Next Sale. Oh my eyes!

[jenenberry]

Yep. It's that time of year again.
Hordes of women to be seen walking around, sporting shapeless tat that they've been 'lucky' enough to pick up in the Next Sale.
All looking like identical victims of an explosion in a paint factory.

Aibu to think that, this year especially, even the quality and colours of the clothes in the supermarkets is far superior than those found in Next.

YY jenen plus why do you think 16 year old boys want to buy the exact same clothes as a parent buys for their 3 year old boy.

I like bubble hems and black jersey trousers for work. Got another bubble hem too in sale for £6. Dont get up at 4am. Get a bio sale slot. Branded stuff like Nike trainers for school, Birkenstocks all half price. I've also got a silk bedspread I had my eye on for half price.

Don't buy much girls anymore find their range a bid odd for dd age 9 - either too grown up or too babyish.

Oh the Directory - I got one yesterday , I had no idea they charged for them.

I bought a blazer for DS when he went into Yr 8 )he's going into Yr 11 in Sept) that's the last thing I bought online.
And I paid extra for next day delivery to find out the bloody thing was still in the warehouse on the delivery day.
They 'generously' refunded my delivery charge,

Need to take the blardy thing back.(The directory)

I find Next clothes to be really frumpy and unattractive. Who actually buys their clothes from there?

I always have stuff delivered to store as it's free at the moment. I imagine they will charge for it at some point.

There's a sale in the local Next Home store and there's a right old load of tat in it that I wouldn't give house space to.

Emeraldthief - I do, but I consider myself frumpy and unattractive, so you've hit the nail on the head there.

Yes to a 3 year old and 16 year old wearing the same clothes. WTF is that about?

I still haven't found jeans anywhere that me as well as NEXT ones do.

I didn't think the branded stuff was much cheaper than anywhere else, even half price. I saw DS1's trainers for £8 more than I paid from the Nike shop. The kids crocs and birkies were more expensive than TK Maxx.

I drive past Next every day so thought I would call in, on the remote off chance they might have put something half decent on the sales rails. you live in hope

Nope. There was nothing. I walked out empty handed.

And there was no queue!

The local Next is in a small retail park and you can imagine how the other retailers like the effect on parking. One year the Next staff had the bloody nerve to put up signs over half the shared car park saying NEXT CUSTOMERS ONLY- whether it was staff from the other shops or customers or both who removed them I don't know but somebody did and Next never tried it again.

I was in Next today. It looked like an explosion in an Aztec settlement.

imo it's a bit 'emperors new clothes' with vanity sizing. better than M&S though.

Jeans are good in Next, all my jeans from there and shoes occasionally. That's it. The tops are too short and sit most unflatteringly right on the waist. Underwear and nightwear ridiculously expensive for how mediocre it is.

I dont like next. I dont like their clothes. Nothing makes me want to buy their stuff, least of all the jumble sales they have,.

Do you not find that the jeans stretch horrendously nickifury ?

But I always feel im "making do" and compromising with Next tall, as I am so limited buying elsewhere

The vanity sizing in Next is absurd - I worked there as a teenager and their 6 petite shirts hung off me so much they paid for them to be taken in.

Some women just love it though, particularly the 5am sales. I've had women push me over to get to rails and seen people turn up with bin bags, taking everything off one rail, and buying it all indiscriminately. I'm not sure whether they were carboot-ing it or were planning on bringing back whatever didn't fit. I wouldn't fancy working on that till if it was the latter.

imo it's a bit 'emperors new clothes' with vanity sizing. better than M&S though

I'm usually a size 12/14, but I had to take a size 12 top back and exchange it for a size 8! (size 10 was too big as well)
I've never been an 8 in my life - except maybe when I was about 8 years old.

The vanity sizing has gone crazy. It's making it impossible to order anything online.
You need to try everything on these days, because you can no longer rely on using sizings as a guide.
It makes internet clothes buying a real hassle.

oh dear - i love next! for kids and my clothes

I agree that it's ridiculous to queue up for a sale at 5am but I get most of my work clothes from Next, as do a lot of my fellow workers.

Not all of us can afford Boden and all the other overpriced places that seem to be the favourites on here

I always bag a VIP slot online and have a look

This year got a pair of their ultra comfy jeans for me half price

Adidas trainers for the DC £27 each
Pair of kickers boots for DS half price and DH also got a few work bits.

YANBU. I get increasingly frustrated with Next, particularly the sales. After going through pages and pages of sale items online I just became disillusioned. Even on the day it started everything I wanted to buy was sold out but it only told you that pnce you had tried to add it in the basket.I eventually manged to get a swimsuit for my dd which I was meant to pick up from a local store on wed but never received an email to say it wa sin store so don't know if it is or not and don't want to waste a journey. The other item I managed to get at a half decent price ( most of it still seems to be overpriced tat even at sale prices) was some school shirts for my son - except that when I checked out it informed me that the shirts won't be available for seven weeks by which time my son will be back at school and i shall have had to purchae some more from elsewhere!! I thought the whole point of a sale was to clear stock that you already have?Totally useless. I have sent them so many emails over the years expressig how useless I find them but i'm just not going to shop there any more.

Dd had a Next voucher for Christmas and she still hasn't spent it as there wasn't really anything she liked (or if she did like it, it was massively over-priced for what it was). She hung on hoping the summer stuff would be better but alas no.
I've also stopped buying clothes for ds in there because once he got to 12 there was no longer anything in store for him to try on (and it is a huge store near us with a garden centre and furniture dept and everything so you'd expect more of a range of sizes really). I did try the click and collect thing to buy him some jeans but it was such a faff when they didn't fit and I had to traipse back with them. Really can't be bothered.

I queue for the Next sale so I'm one of the first in. I spend 5 mins in the kids bit, maybe pop up to the men's briefly and walk through the ladies because apart from some tights, I can't find anything to buy there, even though it's not even like a jumble sale at that time in the morning. Their styles are just horrible and unflattery. I like their kids stuff though.

I don't see why people rave about Joules or Boden either, it's all a bit too middle aged mum for me.