Astounded by trip to shopping centre today

[Harrietta82]

I usually do my shopping online these days, but went shopping with a friend today to a big centre about 30 minutes away from us (I won’t name it incase outing).

Is it me, or has the minimum size stocked by the majority of shops gradually increased in recent times? I was asking shop assistants whether they had any size 6 stock and received blank stares half the time!

No wonder physical shops seem to be on the way out.

Needless to say, I’ll be sticking to online.

A pleasant experience aside from that though and lovely to see my friend so it wasn’t a wasted day.

They’ll stock what sells, so I assume they don’t sell enough size sixes to warrant it being in the actual shops. I shop online for the same reason.

I was also doing some in person shopping today and frustrated because everything I wanted to try seemed to be available in a size 6/8 or a size 20/22 and nothing in between. V annoying.

Nah, I've been going to shopping centres since the 80s and I don't think 6 was ever a common size to stock.

I'm not certain why you're focused on shops stocking bigger sizes? Surely the issue is that they don't stock your size. It feels a bit disengenuous.

Probably isn't worth the shop keeping them in stock due to lower demand. Same with plus sizes - places like Fatface go up to size 24 and Seasalt go up to 28, but you generally don't find these sizes in store, they have to be ordered online.

It's been many years since I lived in the UK, but I don't ever remember seeing a size 6 in clothing stores.

Shampoo doesn't often come in a size 6, so they probably didn't know what you meant.

It’s not rocket science is it - if they stocked less of those sizes, they’d have space for smaller ones? Have I missed something, sorry if so.

6 shoes or 6 clothing?

🤔

Clothing - with the right brand/style I can sometimes get away with a 4 but there was no change of finding that today! The joys of being a teeny size I guess, I’ve got genetics to thank for that!

I just can’t seem to get a size zero either

Those sizes sell a lot. There aren’t that many size sixes so they don’t sell, so they’re a waste of space.

Size 8 is the lowest common size you will see. It was the same 20 years ago when I worked in retail.

It just seems an opportunity missed. I know people are generally bigger now, but surely you cater for all potential customers.

Are your diamond shoes too tight too?!

Sounds tough.

That’s because vanity sizing means that a size 6 now is what was an 8 or 10 back in the day, and stores always had them.

If someone who is a size 30 was on here saying they couldn’t get clothes in their size, would you say that to them? What’s your problem, other than jealousy?

She can’t get clothes in her size and felt disappointed. There is nothing wrong with sharing that experience, whether she is a size 6, 16 or 26. Your response is just pathetic, petty and jealous.

Feels like a stealth boast 😆

Like others have said, the smallest sizes and largest sizes might not sell and an overwhelming amount of people shop online anyway. You can still buy the clothes, they just don't see much business sense in stocking them if they mostly don't sell.

For what it's worth, when I was a size 6, before Internet shopping, so a while ago, most shops didn't stock that size either. Did mean I'd occasionally find a size 6 gold mine in the sales racks if they occasionally did as they didn't seem to shift often back then either.

Yep!

It depends on the brand in my experience so something aimed at super cool young things will invariably have loads of size 4/6/8/10 and not much in the bigger sizes. Whereas M&S cater for the larger sizes as their majority.

All the teeny tinies will love this thread

Out of interest op
Which shops had loads of 20/22 in
As I can never find anything

The shops I’ve seen tend to have 10 - 18 or 20, sometimes an 8. If you’re outside these sizes then you have to order on line.

So it’s not just smaller people they don’t cater for, if that makes you feel better.

I've sent a few slim ladies on tick tock saying they buy in the childrens department and it's quite stylish and a lot cheaper