Clinton Cards

Clinton Cards is one of those stores where the brand is so well known you know what to expect from any of it’s branches. The Clinton Cards store in the Liverpool ONE development is a large store which is quite modern looking from the outside and it is bright and airy inside.
They have a huge range of cards and gifts for all occasions. Along with cards they have wrapping paper, gift tags, gift boxes, wine gift bags, normal gift bags, invitations, mugs, cuddly toys, ornaments, stationery, bags, purses, badges and balloons.
There is also a great range of party items such as novelties for hen nights and stag do’s, inflatables, pinatas and much more. Everything is a bit tacky, but these sort of items usually are. All the items Clinton Cards sell are good quality and they are reasonably priced. The staff are very friendly and helpful.

Clinton’s Cards in Liverpool One is a place that leaves you with a smile on your face as it is a celebration of special occasions. I often find these kinds of places to be tacky and annoying as they push needless tat in your face and although there is evidence of that here this place seems to handle itself with a touch more class than some establishments.
The prices here are still too high and it is a little annoying to see that establishments can play on special occasions in order to make people part with extortionate amounts of their hard earned money.
On the whole this is a well run store which does a better job than many I have seen and this is in no small part due to their plush surroundings in the wonderful Liverpool One.

This is a Clinton’s with a difference! Fancy dress and party goodies are also incorporated into the range of stock the place has on offer.
I particularly enjoyed reading all the smushy cards in here (if that’s a word, if not, I’ve just invented it and it means… over-​emotional). As well as this I found a great dancing cake card that had a pair of googly eyes and only cost me a mere £2. I thought the selection on offer was vast, and there were lots of funny animal themed cards. Meercats are definitely the ‘in’ mammal right now.
You can also get party goodies in here. Piñata galore. I’m not complaining!
A versatile store.

This branch of Clintons Cards has a fancy dress and party shop amalgamated into it which can only be a good thing as the actual selection of cards here is pretty awful. With row upon row of ‘funny’ cards filled with nob gag after nob gag there is almost nothing to please your friends or the joker in your family. The traditional cards are so sentimental they border on plain maudlin (I was going to get my Grandma a card from here but I couldn’t seem to find one for a grandmother that didn’t seem to imply they were about to leave this world for good). The best bet are the plain awful ‘value range’ with animals stuck with googly eyes, wearing stupid hats at least these are actually a bit so-bad-they’re-good funny.
The party shop, Pure Party, is full of all the sort of absolutely useless stuff that you had no idea you needed to throw a party until you came here and found it. It’s expensive (as you might expect for party supplies which have the lowest value-​for-​money standing of almost anything you could want to buy) but the staff are cheerful and helpful and the inflatable palm trees did turn a standard BBQ into… well, a BBQ with some inflatable palm trees.