Primark

Massive massive Primark that send the offering in Belfast into a corner to hide in shame.
As its so big everything is laid out beautifully and you have your eyes open to the many bargains Primark does have on offer that you miss in the mish mash of clothes within its Belfast store.
A must have stop if you visit Manchester.

Primark is a large Irish clothing firm, with over 290 stores in the UK, Ireland, USA and The Rest of Europe, as well as being stocked in 3 branches of Selfridges, which is known to be quite a very high end department chain, due to having a huge store here they are not stocked in the nearby Selfridges at Exchange Square.
This branch of Primark is really big, it is just outside the Arndale on Market Steet and stretches across 3 floors, with Menswear on the bottom. I had not been in this branch of Primark for many years, being put off by the poor quality of clothing, and it getting so busy, where it simply is manic and not worth bothering with, due to large queues for tills, lifts and just getting around the store.
The store inside was, unlike Primark’s clothing quite nice and modern and it was a huge store to the point where with lifts on every corner, it was really easy to loose your bearings and get lost, it was like a huge warehouse, like a Costco but over many floors and bigger.
The staff here didn’t seem too friendly, I got talking to one of them regarding the Leicester City — West Ham United game which was going on, and a penalty 5 minutes into additional time which got Leicester the point, but when I told him it was Leicester, he didn’t seem to care because he actually had a bet on the Liverpool game. The rest of the staff didn’t stand out, and they were hard too find, especially in such a large, busy store.
The clothing, you’d buy at Primark looks okay and it is nothing more than that, it is often cheap and lower-​quality so probably is the type of stuff, you’d only wear once and throw out, they did have some interesting clothing here, but most of them I didn’t like or find fashionable, but they did have some good deals on shoes with shoes that looked OK for £16, much cheaper than the £70 pair I recently purchased from Clarks!
If you like clothes shopping, especially in busy arenas and getting cheap clothes, albeit lower quality, then Primark is your mecca but for me this store is okay and nothing more than that, compared to other branches of Primark and other clothing stores, due to the size and the store looking quite nice in certain parts, I feel it has just gone enough to step over the line of 3 stars. As of the time I written this review in April 2016, the average rating for Primark was exactly 3.0, I am pleased to consolidate that with my review, as this is a much deserved rating for this store, although they are a long way off being considered worthy of any higher star rating.

This store is located on Market Street in the middle of Manchester, just outside the Metro station. There are 3 floors, on the lower ground it’s menswear, on the ground floor it’s womenswear and on the first floor it is home and childrenswear. There is a Costa Coffee shop as well! The shop is cheap enough but there is always queues at the till. The staff are very friendly.

Going to Primark is pretty much always a mistake. I am just not a fan of the store, at all. I’m a lazy shopper, and I hate having to search what I’m looking for, and that’s exactly what you have to do at Primark.
I was hoping to make this a really quick trip as I just needed two gift bags for a present. As I wandered the store, I didn’t see any staff — just masses of customers tearing the racks apart. It’s not my style of shopping and I feel stressed out within about 30 seconds of entering. I eventually found cheap tote bags near the register which I though would be perfect, so I grabbed them and joined the massive line for the register (which is the other thing I hate about Primark). £3 later, I was out of there.
This is a large store right in the middle of Manchester, and seems to be very popular. So if you’re a Primark fan, you’ll probably like it. I didn’t and I won’t be back.

I am not ashamed to say but i do shop in primark
i dont see the point in walking and lounging around the
house in branded clothes and primark as just what i need
for wearing after work or when am not going out.
prices are cheap so you not bothered if you get food stains on them
or cleaning products and they are great for taking on holiday
and disposing of if you dont wont to bring them back.
quality is not bad depending on what you get.
queues are big in here so you could wait up to ten minutes
to be served or if you pop in on a week day then you virtual
have no wait what so ever.

just bought something, broke same day :(

Looks better now, I like it because I can find everything in one place

Primark is the king of throw-​away fashion and it’s the first place I head to if I’m looking for a quick fix. The clothes aren’t always amazing but the prices are, so my thinking is: who cares if you only wear it once? It was £4 for goodness sake!
However, I only bother with Primark when I know it’s not going to be rammed, so late on a week day or early at the weekend, but never a Saturday afternoon — this is when it turns into a zoo. Expect clothes to be scattered willy-​nilly around the store, people running around like headless chickens, super-​massive queues and a general sense of ‘I’ve got to get the **** out of here. Now’.
I do like a good nosey around the Home section now and again though. I found it particularly useful when we moved to Manchester from Spain and had to start all over again (we literally came back here with nada). But thanks to its low prices, we were able to kit most of the new flat out for a reasonable amount of money.
Manchester city centre’s Primark is probably the biggest I’ve been to, so there’s plenty of choice, but if you go with a friend /​spouse and decide to go off and do your own thing, don’t just say «I’ll come and find you in 15 minutes» because I guarantee you won’t find them. I suppose most people can text each other their whereabouts and meet up fairly easily as a result, but alas, my other half hasn’t embraced the 21^st century as yet so texting is out of the question. Cue half an hour of dizzying escalator journeys, tapping lookalikes on the back and apologising, getting embarrassed and feeling numerous blisters rubbing against shoes you really shouldn’t be out shopping in. Not fun.
So remember, people: weekdays = good. Saturdays = not good. Mobile phones = good. No mobile phone = stupid. Enjoy!

Oh Primark where have you been all my life? The Primark in Manchester is the mothership. It is MASSIVE. You could literally spend your entire day in here looking at stuff. If you are a fan of bargain buys, then Primark is the place for you.
I really love their selection of cute socks and pajamas. Their T-​shirts are cute too but like the other reviewers said, they’re not well made.
I actually never made it to the fitting rooms as I prefer to just throw stuff over my tank top instead. Oh and the shoe section is heaven. Ballerina flats for 4 pounds each? HECK YES! Cute floral tennis shoes for 3 pounds? Yes yes yes!!!
They also have a men’s section but the quality is seriously lacking there. I would just stick to their accessories, t-​shirts and sweatshirts. In short, it’s awesome. In my opinion it’s better than forever21 because it’s even cheaper.

I have to say that, ethical issues aside, Primark staff are incredibly efficient and polite. The speed at which they can dispose of a huge lunchtime queue is an example to others. Its a pity that their cuts aren’t adjusted for larger sizes through and that their buttons are badly placed. But this store has been a boost to Stockport

v cheap, but poor quality for many items — others ok…

Primark is no frills shopping at its best yes it is often like shopping in a jumble sale (best to avoid Saturdays and schools holidays at all costs) yes there is some right tat on sale but for basics (tights, socks, hooded tops for the gym — I cant pay more than £2.00 for a pair of tights as I tend to ladder them after 1 wear!) and novelty or high fashion items it has its place on the hight street and can be a right treasure trove if you are prepared to dig (literally) a bit.
They do a reasonable home range (perfect for bedding if you have pets that seem to like your bed better than their own!) and a good range of mugs plates, tea towels etc. I’ve also got some nice Christmas decorations in the past and they do some good cheap wrapping paper.
The Manchester store fact fans is the biggest one in the UK so fill your brown paper bag boots :)

Firstly I would like to say, that I am not one for usually leaving reviews but I feel compelled to leave a comment about my experience of Primark in Manchester today! I am a happy and smiley person, who be horrified to ruin anyones day, but after being in Primark for around half an hour I feel like I have had the life drained out of me!
The staff in primark are so infuriatingly rude, especially the staff I encountered in the changing room! I had two trips to the changing room. The first time, the girl behind the counter could barely be bothered to lift her head to acknowledge my presence whilst rudely grabbing my clothes and treating me like some kind of hindrance to her life. Baring in mind this was 9am, so hardly like she’s been working all day!
Second time around, I have a small jacket with me, which I am told I can not try on! When I ask why, the reason is incase I put something in the pocket?! When I point out to her that the pants AND the top I am also trying on ALSO have pockets, she just shrugs and gives me attitude. I laugh at the absurdity of it but her face just remains stone cold.
Horrible horrible place! Yes cheap clothes, but disgusting customer service!

Well it certainly is a ‘Marmite’ subject, Primark. Personally, I’m a hater. But I do see their appeal as the clothes are very affordable and there is a gigantic range. As a result the quality is poor, and your chances of bumping into at least one other person wearing the exact same togs is about the 75% mark — too high for my liking.
I’ve heard die-​hards say that this is one of the bigger and better stores you will find, and I do have to confess I buy 90% of all my tights and socks from here because the variety is the biggest you will find in Manchester — at those prices snagging stockings on their first outing isn’t a huge drama.
I find the underwear uncomfortable, the footwear doesn’t wear well at all if you walk a few miles a day, the queues at the checkout are a chore-​and-​a-​half. And I’m not really comfortable with knowing that the factory workers in foreign lands are likely earning an even tinier percentage of the already tiny price I’m paying for things.

February 2012, and time for a wardrobe spring clean, and a Primark update. Unilocalers, conventional female I am not. Those chicks you see on adverts with a gazillion shopping bags weighing down their designer sleeved arms, wanting to purchase fashion items until their knees give out? Not myself. I find clothes I like, I get comfortable, I wear them to death, they get holes, I darn them, my darning fails, I resign myself to buying replacements. Eventually. As like, a last resort. I am not a good clothes shopper, and I need a female companion or boyfriend with me to steer me in the right direction.
So when I go alone, it’s function shopping. I went to Primani armed with a list the same way I do when I get groceries. I had specific things in mind which I’d written down. (Who even does that when buying clothes?) I needed basics. T-​shirts, vests, longsleeves for layering, tights, socks, some casual shoes, underwear, and I needed lots of them. I’d stupidly not realised it was half term and thinking I was really clever, went early on a weekday morning. Uuuugggghhhuuuhhh. Primark was not safe. Anyway, I find it’s a lot easier to navigate than it used to be — I do wish they’d stop doing strange things like putting some tights on the clothes floor, then rows upon rows of tights upstairs, and the women’s shoes being downstairs is a bit odd… let’s just say I traversed all three floors during my shop which wasn’t fun, but at least everything was simple to find.
You know what wasn’t fun either? Listening to staff conversations! The one where a sales assistant was slagging off the merchandising in the Liverpool store (that’s a retail term for the way it’s laid out, due to my stint in Kendal’s I know this) was kind of fun, but how’s this?
Male sales assistant 1: Generic male mumbling.
Male sales assistant 2: Generic male mumbling.
Male sales assistant 1: I’m proper uncomfortable.
Male sales assistant 2: Why?
Male sales assistant 1: I’ve got this f**king spot, on my arse, and it itches to f**k.
Male sales assistant 2: Oh man, what?
Male sales assistant 1: Everytime someone’s not looking I’m having to scratch.
Male sales assistant 2: Seriously?
Male sales assistant 1: Yeah, rubbing myself against walls, and everything.
Thank you. Thank you for that. What amazing visuals. Ah, Primark. Designer prices might get you designer sales assistant charm, but I’ll take a bit of bum talk over having to fork out a fortune. When it comes to the basics in my wardrobe, I’m afraid I have to admit that I can’t live without Primark.

What I wouldn’t give to transplant this Primark to the states!
After living in Brighton and London, the Primark in Manchester really stole my heart. Yes, it’s gigantic, and an eternal, gigantic clusterf… on top of that, but you cannot beat the selection or prices in any way.
I get so many compliments on my Primark garb across the pond that it makes me wish I had bought four more suitcases worth (or just diverted the plane which imports it all to my house). The funniest example of this is with two pairs of shoes I bought there last fall — over a year ago, now. They are IDENTICAL to shoes which are out in the states now and, of course, retail for 5 – 10 times the price.
Do I love this? Absolutely.
Primark, Chicago’s calling. xx

Primark in Manchester might look attractive from the outside, but inside it is a depressing factory which is filed with as many clothes as possible just to sell them as quickly as possible. There is no room to move anywhere, the clothes are badly made, the staff hardly speak English and the men’s section downstairs is just depressing.
Clothing for the masses and for those that need to be herded just to find what they want.

Whenever I see this place the imperial march from star wars starts playing in my head. Primark are subtly the biggest of the big clothes shops. Why subtly? Because if you ever think about it primark doesn’t advertise its presence anywhere, you can’t find info on it in newspapers, magazines, T. V nothing why is that?
O wait now I remember, because its ton after ton of cheap clothing and furnishings all originates from shockingly poor conditions in some corner of the world. Primark tries to avoid touching on advertising it’s presence or its general wares for this simple reason. But nobody should throw rocks in glass houses, it is cheap stuff, everyone goes there to pick up fancy dress stuff.

Shopping at Primark is like stepping back in time to the 1970s when a packet of crisps cost 10p, pyjamas cost £4 and jeans and knitwear cost about £7.
The scary thing is, the prices are real. Everything in the store — and we’re talking three floors of childrenswear, womenswear, menswear, shoes, lingerie, accessories and homewear — is cheap as chips. You could fill a whole basket with clothes and probably still have change from a £50 note. The company insist they manage to keep the prices way below inflation because they produce huge quantities and keep the overheads low. The documentary The Devil Wears Primark suggested otherwise with the underlining theme being exploitation and pitiful wages.
Unfortunately, the latter doesn’t seem to have had an effect on customers with the place being packed every weekend with bargain hunters looking for cheap and cheerful rip-​offs of high street lines. The fact a lot of the clothes are badly made and stupidly sized doesn’t seem to bother anyone as much as the long queues. I’m assuming this is because the moment people step through the door they leave two things behind; their common sense and their conscience.

Can there be a more depressing experience than an afternoon spent shopping in Primark?
From the insanely dull décor, to the eyesight ruining strip lighting, to the staff who look like they’d really like to harm you if only they had something heavier to hand than a pair of £3 jeans– that incidentally guarantee to ruin anything they come into contact with.
I know it’s cheap and times are hard but nobody needs that many cardigans that desperately!

Ob Primark oder Penneys (Irland), es ist immer wieder ein Erlebnis hier einkaufen zu gehen. Total überfüllt aber halt unschlagbar günstig!

le paradis sur terre du shopping pas cher!!!
il y a des affaires en or à faire pour tout ce dont on a besoin autant pour les vêtements que pour la maison !! c’est génial!!!