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To think mothercare take the piss full stop?

24 replies

valleysprincess · 31/03/2009 14:37

V-tech baby walker £15 in Tescos', £17 in Wilkinsons TWENTY SEVEN POUNDS IN MOTHERCARE!!!!

Fluffy baby romper (on sale in Mothercare) £9 fluffy baby romper (not on sale) in supermarket £5.

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nametaken · 31/03/2009 15:51

Vtech baby walker £30 in John Lewis.

Mothercare can take the piss as much as they like but if it's cheaper in Tesco that's where people are gonna buy it from.

EyeballsintheSky · 31/03/2009 15:53

Just wanted to say...

'Hello puppy calling do you want to play with meeeeee?
Let's have fun together while you learn your ABC!

Let's play puppy says!'

cikecaka · 31/03/2009 16:03

LOL Eyeball

madhairday · 31/03/2009 16:10

ooooh Eyeballs you have made me all brooooody now, my youngest is 5 and 'hello puppy calling' brings back all lovely baby memories..... :D

MarlaSinger · 31/03/2009 16:14

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AddictedtoCrunchies · 31/03/2009 16:18

Arrrggghhh at the Hello puppy song. It dirves me MAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

Also, 'they're 2, they're 4, they're 6. they're 8....' We have aThomas obsession in our house.

AddictedtoCrunchies · 31/03/2009 16:19
  • drives. Wrong fingers on today.

Ours was a hand me down too..

Gentle · 31/03/2009 18:51

No, I think Mothercare are bobbins too.

This opinion started early with maternity clothes that were badly sewn, a maternity bra that offered the support of a plastic bag and was fully confirmed 5 months after the baby arrived - we ordered a wooden highchair with a lift-over tray. The tray wouldn't go over the 5 month old's head. Talk about design fault...

Gentle · 31/03/2009 18:52

also I was offered a hand-me-down "hello puppy calling" and said no as I already have a history of post-natal depression!

MummyCharli · 31/03/2009 19:05

I HATED that stupid baby walker with a passion, not just because it was so annoying but also because MIL bought it when we specifically said we didn't want a walker for DSs Christmas as WE wanted to buy him a wooden one with blocks in I sold it to my friend as soon as he had outgrown it and bought a wooden one when DS2 came along

Sherida · 31/03/2009 19:17

I too have had the puppy song inflicted upon me by evil bastard inlaws loving MIL. Sadly DD loves it.

MummyCharli · 31/03/2009 19:33

Does anyone else find that it sings randomly? Ours used to all the time!

giraffescantdancethetango · 31/03/2009 19:34

Yes mummyCharli, did it once when I was downstairs - and the monitor was on cos baby was asleep. Woke him up and freaked me out!!

NorbertDentressangle · 31/03/2009 19:36

I've always had an irrational dislike of Mothercare -I never bought anything from there unless I really couldn't get it from anywhere else (despite living quite near to an out of town Mothercare superstore when DD was a baby)

steviesgirl · 01/04/2009 01:14

Mothercare are so tight. I only buy my dd's shoes and the odd gift for someone else in there. I think they're a rip off tbh. I love the "TU" range of children's clothes in Sainsbury's. Great value and nice styles; and they do adjustable waists on most of their trousers; which is a blessing as my dd is so skinny.

mummy2isla · 02/04/2009 21:26

TU is great. I think mothercare is a MASSIVE rip-off!!

zisforzebra · 03/04/2009 23:28

I hate mothercare for the simple fact that the girls clothes outnumber the boys clothes by about 5 to 1 and I have two boys.

I have bought stuff in there in the past but not for ages. In fact, the last time I was in there the girl behind the till asked if my shopping experience in there was okay that day and I told her no - one small rack of boys clothes, pretty much half a shop for girls clothes. Just about all the boys t-shirts either had trucks on them or some slogan aobut little monsters like that's all there is to boys. They are just ignoring half their market.

DSMaryMagdalene · 03/04/2009 23:39

Rock and Roll!

hannahlouhoo · 03/04/2009 23:43

Z what did she say back to that?

zisforzebra · 04/04/2009 21:44

Hannahlouhoo - she agreed with me! It just makes me really cross (can you tell?!) that boys are sidelined and stereotyped in the clothing market so much. Most of the clothes shops are guilty of it to some extent, way more stock for girls than boys, but I think Mothercare are the worst.

acebaby · 05/04/2009 20:42

yeee haaaaw duh duh duh di di duh di di duh duh

the vtech toy is 10 month old DS2's favourite at the moment he hurtles everywhere with it. We got it on sale in mothercare for 12 pounds 3 years ago.

BUT apart from that mothercare are rubbish here. They have everything on display and nothing in stock (which you find out after waiting for 10 minutes with screaming children). And their shoe shop got DS1's size wrong by 2.5 sizes (said he was a 6G and he turned out to be 8.5F). And they had no excuse because he was being unusually cooperative

Baisey · 06/04/2009 18:57

Hee hee I work for ELC (we were took over by mothercare about 2 years ago, these comments make me smile.

ScottishMummy · 06/04/2009 19:11

dont rate MC at all

lainey2778 · 07/04/2009 02:40

I applied for a job with MCARE whilst preg,

I hate them cause they employed some halfwit instead of me..

i went in to buy something and askd the new girl advice.. 2 which she shouts out 2 the manager

DIS LADY YEAH SHE LIKE WANTS TO KNOW...
then she forgot what i asked her and turned to me and said

CAN U LIKE EXPLAIN WHAT U SAID TO ME TO MY MANAGER...

I was fuming... they employed her and not me

What a joke!!

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