Penneys is like.......well everybody shops at Penneys. A lot of it is crap but it's cheap and there's very little competition in the price range. Unless you're spending M&S money (and there's not many of them) or designer shops it's Penneys or nowt.
Chuffing hell I know parndland have reduced the quantity/size of products to keep em at a parnd. But Penney’s. Where’s nearest, av put mi coit on ready.
Every store opening has massive increases in basket size. In many stores multiple some customers are spending over €1000 in one transaction. For shops where the normal basket size is €38 thats' a lot of folk who've worn holes in their pants.
People are being shamed for how desperate they are to get in to Primark by queuing for ages. Good on them I say for helping the economy and helping to save jobs. The point of lockdown was to flatten the curve and that's been done. It was never to stay away from shops until cases reached zero.
It's a representation of the state of many economies that folk have no option but to shop at Penney's to buy clothes made in sweat shops from east Asia . This free market economic model isn't working out too well for the vast majority .
I know I'm easily confused but how does the ' only touch things you are going to buy' rule work in somewhere like Primark? I only mention it 'cos the Beeb referenced these rules introduced within an article that chiefly uses Primark as an example of 'pent up' demand, limiting numbers of changing rooms and the excessive queueing. Most people want to try stuff on and often find it is the wrong size, or doesn't look the same on them as it did on the hanger (at least that is what my wife always says when clothes shopping and normally takes several items into the changing cubicle and then buys none, or only one, of them. Also my memory of Primark is that, way before lunchtime, half the stock is on the floor and the aisles resemble 'rummage stalls' at a jumble sale Not sure trying clothes on that may already have been handled several time is a good idea when bars and restaurants, taxis, airlines are expected to sanitise items after every use prior to the next customer.
It said on the news that most shops would quarantine any items tried on for 24 hours before returning them to the shelves.
My only problem with this apparent frenzy for Primark’s cheap clothes is that it’s not like people had no other source for them during lockdown. Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and some Morrisons have huge budget clothing sections. Why the desperation now??!?
People slide thing along racks to get the one they intend to try on in clothes shops There is no way they will only touch a specific items. Policing it in somewhere like Primark will be impossible. Unless the R factor is well below 1 and the fact that UK has not enforced a 'wear a mask in public' as they have here (Italy), whilst I am not an expert, I fear a spike in 2 -3 weeks. Hopefully I am 100% wrong.
Given the protests over the last 2 weekends, the unofficial end of lockdown in many places and reports of a 5000+ people rave in Manchester at the weekend (R>1 in 4 of 9 regions of England including the North West) - the spike could be as early as the back end of next week.
It slightly baffled me when I read that Waterstones will be quarantining any books handled by customers. Not that I disagree with the idea, but I'm sure I'm not alone in handling loads of books in there. I'd be surprised if they had any stock left on the shelves by midday.
Sorry I can't answer right now I'm too busy shopping... jesus it's a bloody madhouse in here... gerrout of the way ya daft old bat...Oi gerroff them socks them socks are mine, I saw em first!
Supermarket stock hasn't been quarantined though has it? I tried to only touchance what I wanted but if you needed to read about the product you'd be touching some thing and then maybe leaving it.
