Boden, Bloody Boden

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-"Good morning, Boden, how can I help you?"

Hi. I'd like to order some childrens clothes. please.

-"Certainly. What would you like?"

-Some swimming trunks, a toweling top, a hoody and some jeans in sizes xxx/xxx.

-"Certainly. Oh. It seems that we're out of the trunks, I'm afraid. Oh. And the toweling top. And the hoody, too."

How about the jeans?

-"Umm, well, they've been very popular this year......."

SLAM (sound of phone hitting wall)

Useless effing TWATS!
It's like a Monty Python sketch-the shop that doesn't have anything to sell.

This annoys the hell out of me too, every year. Not just Boden, but all the high street shops will have no summer stuff in at all in a couple of weeks, but will have racks full of winter coats and long boots ffs. Good luck with trying to sell those in this weather.

I'd get to your local shops and try and bag a few bargains, because they're desperately trying to sell off the last few swim trunks etc before the schools break up.

But what are they supposed to do?

Hold back stock for summer clothes?

Have larger stock (putting themselves at risk of overstocking).

Neither of these ideas make good business sense as far as I can see. Plus with Boden in particular, they've just had their summer sale. So stock levels non-existent. BEcause people may have been buying trunks/towelling beach stuff at more reasonable prices for next summer.

I quite like the fact that Boden have their sale early in July as there is still time to buy stuff and get good use of it this summer.

Assuming you were unaware of the sale starting last week and that is why you are surprised by the low stock levels so were expecting to pay full price you could try joules

beachwear here

They haven't reduced their beachwear and their towelling hoody is lovely and similar price, quality etc

They also have swimshorts in stock plus stock of sale jeans and hoodies

Thanks for the tip, I'll give them a look.
Is it too much to expect a clothes shop to actually have some clothes to sell?
Maybe I'm just old fashioned!

The sale has been on for a week. They are bound to be out of stock

It's the end of the season; they've been selling summer wear since January. What do you expect them to do- keep hold of summer stock just for you?

Perhaps they should do something wild and crazy, like, oooh, I don't know - order more stock at the start of the season? It's not as if they've only started trading this year - by now they've probably got some vague idea as to what they are likely to run out of. I'm always mystified as to exactly who orders swimming trunks in January.

This is Boden. People stalk the sales (just see the number of mn threads asking when the Boden sale starts). People tend to purchase online too, not over the phone. Live and learn.

Everywhere is the same.

I go ASDA and Primark looking for the cheap vest sets for 0-3 month olds and so does everyone else, they are like gold dust, you can have any size you like as long as it isn't 0-3 or even 3-6 months.

Was in Tesco the other day to get nappies, no size 2 at all had to get the size 3 and there wasn't many of them, it also dawned on me when I was there that the shelf space for nappies sizes 2 and 3 was smaller then that for 1 and 4.

You can ask of many shops why it is that they do not get more stock of what everyone obviously is after instead of having shelf after shelf of something that never runs out.

You should have checked the website first!

Jumping on the bandwagon a bit here, but I tried to order some PJs for my DD in freezing February, and all they could offer was their summer stuff. We live in Scotland it isn't even warm enough for their (beautiful) summer PJs in summer, never mind b**y February.

I'm trying to imagine having to buy a Christmas tree in September, or easter eggs at Christmas etc.
The way in which Supply and Demand is supposed to work, is that the supplier supplies when the customer demands. Not the supplier tells the customer when he's allowed to buy it!