that's why I like stores still for clothes

Some retailers have guides for sizes, and the measurements they fit. For example HM's website says my ideal t-shirt size is an S and they're right

if they dont have detailed sizings, its not worth it to buy from them

Always measure yourself before buying.

agreed and what annoys me most is how measurements lik 34 are bigger and smaller in different stores ,,,, 34 is 34 no matter where

The same is said of all other brands.

Why do you still supply them, why not find other brands that allow your employees better wages and conditions, after all they are YOU'RE employees and not primark's.

@@bluespag I never said I supply them. I refuse to work with these ogres.

western society is still drinking blood of worlds poor

It's all good, as long as it's not a Chinese company.

Very interesting

Spot on! 😎 I doubt that they will change to Primark in Ireland. The brand has too much recognition.

Was just in Belfast a week ago. Can confirm

Thanks! Makes sense for me, when travelling to Dublin and London I noticed the similarities but I could not figure that out.

It's called Penneys in Ireland, love it, caters for everyone too, decent quality and good prices

It’s called fast fashion for a reason. I never use fast fashion product from europe so it’s interesting to see them in asia. But again, when they hit asia, the cheap price will probably not cheap anymore.

@@blacklavoux I'd love to know what technology you use, and how ethically sourced your gadgets, food supplies etc are.

I am with you on this boat. I've bought a couple of Primark items that have lasted me years so far. This fast fashion thing is ridiculous.

My Primark t shirt developed random holes in it after about 10 washes. How’s that supposed to last me exactly - am I to hand wash it? Or do YOU wear clothes that are tattered with holes everywhere? I mean it can be a cool look I guess.

Thank you for pointing this out!! It's ALL FAST FASHION at the end of day😂😂😂 agreed with you

Primark has received a huge amount of criticism and snobbery from all kinds of people.

Primark is Irish bro!

no. Primark is blasted over here, too. Won' t stop people from shopping,, though.

Primark is Irish original name is “Penny’s” but JCPenny blocked them trading as “Penny’s” outside Ireland! They still trade as penny’s today in Ireland

I hate fitting rooms so I try on even my in-store purchases at home and only buy online from places with a local presence so I can return things easily. Some chains shut their stores downtown where I regularly shop. That means that Uniqlo and Levi’s have replaced the Gap for basics and I shop exclusively at Yves Rocher instead of the Body Shop. Sizing is inconsistent from brand to brand and sometimes even within brands. I was disappointed with the fit of a couple of online orders from Athleta (which I didn’t return because the next size down would have been too small) so I’m sticking with Lulelemon and Lolë (both have consistent sizing and fit well). L.L. Bean is the one place I still order online from but I’ll likely buy more when a store opens nearby. There isn’t a Primark in Canada. The closest equivalent Joe Fresh which is owned by the same family conglomerate as Primark. They have a few standalone stores and an online presence but you mostly find them in a section of their grocery stores. The quality is questionable but I have bought a few things from there while doing the grocery shopping.

Your last sentence is impactful...

Online retailers are increasingly charging for returns and the lack of helpful sizing information is abysmal. Free returns and comparative sizing information should be helpful. "The model is 5 ft 7 and wearing Medium".

People are doing drugs and having sex in the fitting rooms. Plus putting on a bunch of clothes to steal and then run out of the store. Times have changed. It's not their fault it's the criminals and changing landscape and they have to adapt or go out of business. Plus you really want to try those clothes on that 15 other people have already tried on before you touching their skin already? Also not to mention the nasty chemicals they spray on those clothing to keep bugs aways and who know what it does to your body when you put it on straight from the factory without washing it first and touching y our skin? Probably best to make your own clothes or have a local person make it for you not with chemicals form a factory who only cares about profits not your health.

I prefer to try clothes at home because I can try them on with other outfits at home. I am not into store browsing, so Primark lost me as a customer. I am not a fan of fast fashion anyway.

Indeed, Penny’s!

Not happening, they’ll turn them into apartments

Lucky you! I would have to drive 60 miles to MABEY be able to find what I want.

It's amazing how fast forever 21 stores are disappearing tho

Have u been living under a rock? Lol

Same‼️

Primark is very common here in Europe.

It depends on where you live i suppose. Penneys or Primark has been around since the late 60's in Ireland and the UK.

Quality? Which country are you in? The London Primarks offer clothes at poor to abysmal quality, especially the fabrics themselves.

"fair trade", "no slavery", "environmentally friendly" and "cheap" is not currently possible.

It will not open in Canada as Primark is owned by the British branch of the famous Weston family. Two branches of family don’t compete.

​@@theinternetbutleryes it can

@@tonyzhu2469 you talking about the Loblaws owners?

Come to Walden Galleria outside of Buffalo NY. We have Primark, Macy’s, Auntie Anne’s!

True but nowadays, people rich or poor will buy anywhere and anything they like. A nice dress is a nice dress. It is all about the actual item.

give us at least zara and wine. everything else is cheaper in the usa

What makes shopping in Europe better?

Zaras clothes are very cheap quality to me. I like some of their stuff but I don’t get the hype around this company tbh

Maybe I was just excited to find a new store. Though the linen I found there was better quality (Italian) than what I find at Macy's and it was easy to find items made of cotton. In the States, everywhere you go, almost everything is made of synthetic fibers or poor quality cotton/linen mixes. @@la6136

It's not where I live. If I lived in Europe, shopping elsewhere would be fun.@@god563616

Agreed. A life saver for many.

the quality is good too. the problem is the style lol.

Primark is newer in the US. They are recently expanding here.

@@kaozzzzzzzzz1 since 2015 is almost a decade...

Primark quality is rubbish .

Would agree on the quality lately, my wife says the stitched on decorations are itchy.....used not be like that..

so you can show the result of child labour to the children you are teaching? Smart.

@kathrin9674 omg you're right! Thanks for the reminder about that. All I saw were cheap shoes. Need to be mindful on that issue too!

Surprising fact.

The prices may be reasonable but the quality is anything but "good".

@@leen1q84Yh for sure ,it is definitely affordable which can be good especially for people that don’t want to spend too much money on clothes but the quality is not great but people in here in the Uk love to buy at primark especially women .

@@leen1q84 It was good enough for me. I still have a few T-shirts that I bought in 2012, and it doesn't look worn even though I've used them constantly over the past decade.

And it has the same sweatshops as Shein, Ivy Park by Beyonce and every other fashion brand. Stop it

@@god563616 It’s more complex than that. Companies could stop garment production tomorrow in those countries. What would those poor people do for jobs then? Would people in western countries want to pay $100 for a basic t-shirt which is produced in their own country? Without these countries producing goods, inflation in the west would skyrocket astronomically & everyone would be poorer.

Also, Primark employs thousands of people.

😂 😂

They were purposefully not showing European stores at that moment, because in the next sentence they say how the most foot traffic in the US can be found in malls (hence why they showed pictures of indoor malls), whereas in Europe it is in the real life streets of city centers. Canada most likely follows a similar pattern to the US (many reasons behind this), so I assume that’s why they featured a mall in Toronto.

@@tamaracarter1836 I think it’s possible that’s the intention, but I would argue that Eaton Centre fits the description of a “constantly busy area” that they use during that section. So I get that they may have just thought “let’s use a clip of a busy shopping area, it doesn’t really matter where” but I feel like it kind of just undercuts the point they’re making. I just feel like if you’re going to say something like ‘UK stores are located in constantly busy areas, whereas American stores are in malls with lower foot traffic’ that It feels a bit strange to first show a busy Canadian Mall and then an empty American Mall and not even show any European shopping areas. But that just me. Still an interesting video about a chain I hadn’t heard of before so I appreciate what they’re doing. And it’s fun as a Canadian to see one of our more famous malls show up.

@@nstamour Yes I understand what you’re saying. Who knows what they were thinking… But if you look before the Canadian mall shows up (at 5:53) you have another mall. So I just assumed they started to show random malls because they were about to say why the US market is so different from Europe (shopping malls). But you’re right, they did make it confusing and it is strange!

@@tamaracarter1836 yeah, it’s a confusing, and I get what you mean, so that might be why. I think they probably also just needed a busy shopping area and didn’t really care what they used as an example since it only shows on screen for maybe 2-3 seconds.

I'm guessing you don't know.

Just came from the UK and made multiple trips to Primark. Also, I heard several American accents which makes me know that other Americans were loving it too

@@newguy954 Were you trying to ask or say something?

Whenever I was sent to the UK for work, I always made sure to go to Primark to shop. I still have of the clothes I bought from there.

@@manjulikabhattacharjee457 i literally answered your question with a link.

The apostrophe shouldn’t be used for plural, so one should type “Primarks” when referring to several stores.

I wouldnt say good quality but a bargain for the price theyre offering.

It's so cheap, grossly cheap, that you're constantly wondering _who_ is paying for this $2 t-shirt, if it isn't you. And I think we can all imagine who, but we try to forget real quick, because LOOK it's $10 jeans!

It’s not good quality. How could it be? It’s ridiculously cheap. Fair labor practices?

@@user-mz7de3kc3d Some of it is good quality. Bad labor practices exist in every corner of the clothing industry.

@@CatatonicImperfect Some people cannot afford to spend more than $2 on a t-shirt or $10 on jeans. It’s called being poor.

Is it though? I find the quality is awful. After a wash or two the colour isn't good anymore, the material is usually very thin if cotton. Never find other natural material options otherwise.

The quality is trash

I am the owner of a garment factory in one of the major countries they manufacture in and they are notorious for squeezing vendors on pricing. They’re not particularly bothered about the conditions of the facilities their products are manufactured in. The workers in the countries they manufacture in are paid just enough to survive. There are many dirty secrets behind their ridiculously low pricing. Very unethical company.

Try their edit range. Their teeshirts are the same ones as massimo dutti ones. Not a dupe, but the exact ones. But a third of massimo dutti's prices. They wash perfectly.

Every two weeks? Hey, you can wash your clothes and wear them again! 🙃😉😉

Same here. The problem is people don't know how or don't want to look after their clothes or. They don't follow the washing label or mend as needed to extend the life of an item.

Similar class and price point

They started out doing seconds. Large amounts of clothes that somehow didn’t make the grade elsewhere despite 99% of the time being impossible to see the “defect”. The price was very low resulting in visiting everytime you passed, sometimes multiple stores due to the reputation of never knowing what you would get and when it was gone it was gone. Eventually in the late 90s the strategy shifted to a few of their own lines especially in essentials. Access to the east and cheap clothing eventually took over. Eventually they stopped their own brands in favour of a few partners and struck deals with the likes of Disney for some branding. The strategy you see today is the evolution, adjustment and abandonment of aspects of that didn’t work from those multiple eras ultimately aiming to appeal to the most. Ultimately what sets them apart is the contrast to Marks & Spencer’s or Dunnes is the fact they appealed to multiple generations. A lot of other stores had their market or stuck to a style. Primark had a timeless aspect to some lines and didn’t always get it right but still tried and succeeded to appeal to every generation both Male and Female. Yes their quality generally sucks (one wash and your done at times)but it’s cheap and does the job. Many kids grew up wearing Primark stuff and will shop their for their children (I done that exact thing). Come Christmas it’s one of the few places to pick up PJs, slippers or housecoats that are good quality or if you need black trousers for school or work. Yes supermarkets compete as do M&S etc but Primark is alway worth checking out

from the video tis a combination of both. Primark initially started by using the same model having stores in downtowns/ high traffic areas they have developed in EU but through time they changed to better fit the market.

It was designed to enable those on a tight budget to be able to afford to dress themselves. Returns are expensive for a retailer and few people return stuff to Primark.

Lover of high end fashion and you shop in Primark you don't understand the meaning of high end fashion ...You don't look good if you shop in Primark ..

Their primark edit teeshirts are the exact same ones as masdimo dutti ones. Not dupes, exact same product. They are incredible quality but 1/3 of massimo dutti's prices.

@@deebee192 Excellent observation 👌

Bangladesh should refuse to manufacture garments full stop. That way they won’t be exploited by their former colonial masters or anyone else. Primark was originally an Irish company and was not the former colonial master of Bangladesh.

true.

@@dcoughla681 for all intents and purposes, it’s main business is derived from the UK and it operates as a UK company, regardless of where it was originally founded.

@@pbc5137 The Bangladesh people should take this up with your Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, as to which countries manufacture in your country. If she decides that she doesn’t want trade from the UK, then I’m sure there will be no end of countries to take the UK’s place, including China & Russia.

@@dcoughla681 everyone is welcome to trade with us on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, not on the basis of intimidation and exploitation. Thank you.