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

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

I'm surprised they lasted this long tbh

Hopefully they dont close down but I've not shopped there in 20 years almost

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/breaking-claires-accessories-brink-collapse-35724521

This is so true. They have become an absolute toilet. It’s so gross. I once saw a man defecate, yes you read that correctly, in public, in a high street. Broad daylight. GRIM!!

I don't throw away anything we've bought from Claire's unless it's broken beyond repair and where I live any plastic that ends up in the regular rubbish gets burned for creating electricity.
So nothing I have bought there should end up in landfill.

It’s the state of the changing rooms in shops that gets me, there’s massive clumps of dust all over the floor, does anyone ever hoover them?

Iceland employ 26000 people.

I was referring to a TikTok video where I saw they were offering customers £1 to report shoplifters. That's how out of touch they are. I'm not putting my life in danger for £1.

You stated that you don't care if 26000 people lose their jobs.
Bit harsh, even for Mumsnet.

Okay?

You wouldn't care if they 'go down'
That means the whole work force lose their jobs.
That means 26000 lose their jobs and you don't care.

Okay?

No I don’t blame you. These recent messages from police or other for others to step in are nuts.

Yeah, our experience was pretty much the same except both my DDs were done as birthday presents, the girls who did the piercings were lovely, and definitely knew what they were doing.

I had my second piercing done there and my tragus, with no issues at all.

I’ll be sad to see them go, and of course it’s devastating for all the staff.

Yup, this is why I said I don't care if they go under because of how out of touch they are. Why can't they pay for training? Why can't they pay for more equipment? Why can't they pay for more security? They make so much in profits and have astonishing salaries. Yet want the general public to step in for £1. Pathetic if you ask me!

Well I hate buying online.
I like going into town to get things I want/need.
I get my hair accessories and earrings from Claire's. Sometimes a few other bits and pieces. I will not be happy if it closes down

Like Smiggle, aimed at children but it costs like £5 for a pencil

I think I read their shops are staying open. They just won't be doing the ordering online anymore. So you can still shop there by going to one of their shops. I loved the ordering online so I'm gutted. It's not tat, they have some lovely things. My daughter loves it there and she collects the Pusheens from there. Yes, you can buy them elsewhere but Claire's pusheens always seem much better.

Someone in my city got fatally stabbed inside a bank a few weeks back. In the middle of the afternoon. So you’re best off staying home.

I heard the same, someone died. I think this is why banks are going online. Less risk to their staff.

Our bank is weirdly very open but also operates with no actual cash tills that the people can open. The machines dispense and accept money. But I could grab an employee but they wouldn’t be able to get any cash.

I would like to see a return of traditional shops to the high street. Ironmongers, fishmongers, haberdasheries and the like.

Unfortunately people stopped shopping at them so they died out.
Anyone that attempts to open a traditional shop usually gets lots of moaning about being "too expensive".

Crieff is great. All of those things.

Driving around the backstreets of a NW town a few days ago we passed a traditional iron monger and general store. Looked like it hadn’t changed in at least fifty years. Asked my husband, shall I go in and buy four candles? “Good idea, bet they’ve never been asked that before” 😁

Staff in my bank now wear bodycams, I thought it was a bit OTT as they already had CCTV, apparently not.

Incidentally, I have reported a shoplifter in Iceland. Woman with a buggy (no child) lifted a pile of steaks out of the chill cabinet and stuffed them in a bag under the buggy. I quietly told a staff member and she got escorted out (sans steak).

I was on holiday though and going home next day. I might have thought twice if it was my local store. They also never gave me a quid.

That is better than numerous European shops and barbers that have been allowed.

Every damn shop that closes around here, another fake barber's opens complete with seedy men milling around. That, or an equally grim-looking nail bar.

What do you mean by European shops though? Surely not "Polskiye smaki" type good shops? I am addicted to the mustard and chocolate (separately)

Would agree re barber shops as a lot have been linked to money laundering.

not sure what you mean by the European shops?

We have a dodgy one called Euro X-press. Hardly any customers, "American sweets", all long life products. I've walked past it almost every day, sometimes twice a day for over two years and it appears to exist on fresh air.