[News] Who does shop in BHS?
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Gary Hart's Stalker
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My biggest memory of BHS in Brighton was the man outside playing the bagpipes. I did a week's work experience in their HR department and that's all I heard for the whole week! Wonder what happened to him?
KingstonSeagull
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My nan
tinx
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It's handy for buying school trousers and stuff like that for the kids. Thats about it.
Indeed. With Bejams in the far corner and the school uniform shop on the lower level - can't remember the name of it.
Really ? More detail required !
father_and_son
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Crap Secret Santa Presents...
BHS always had a wonderful select of tat on offer for exactly £5 or £10 depending on the office budget. Definitely the place to go to buy ill-thought through gifts for someone you didn't like, that they didn't want and would throw away before new year.
BHS always had a wonderful select of tat on offer for exactly £5 or £10 depending on the office budget. Definitely the place to go to buy ill-thought through gifts for someone you didn't like, that they didn't want and would throw away before new year.
And then supported Cameron and Osbourne in 2010 ..... quite clearly changes camps to suit his needs.
Megazone
On his last warning
Next will be Debenhams.
Garry Nelson's teacher
Well-known member
I bought my wedding jacket there in 1977
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I'm not so sure. Debenhams have reported some good figures only a week or two ago. Also, Debenhams has a strong brand, its investment in its designers works well, they are very clever when it comes to concession stands, they remain one of the go-to department stores when new shopping malls are looking for flag stores and they are seen as aspirational.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...roup-says-replacement-set-announced-soon.html
Cian
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My mother did. Until they left the area.
I can see M&S going the same way for much the same reason. I buy some items of food there - that's it. Last few bits of clothes generally turned out to be crap. I think I might have some ties that didn't fall apart.
I can see M&S going the same way for much the same reason. I buy some items of food there - that's it. Last few bits of clothes generally turned out to be crap. I think I might have some ties that didn't fall apart.
Paul Reids Sock
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Like others have said - I only go there at Christmas when I am desperate for some tat.
The on in Reading has a really bizarre new (couple of years old) design. It's almost like they tried to make it a lifeless gloomy store. We went there to get the son a suit when he was a toddler and Christmas tat and that's it.
It's a shame as we used to get my school uniform from the store in Bromley when I was a kid (obviously). I won't miss going in there but it's a bit of an institution on our highstreets so will be weird it not being there
The on in Reading has a really bizarre new (couple of years old) design. It's almost like they tried to make it a lifeless gloomy store. We went there to get the son a suit when he was a toddler and Christmas tat and that's it.
It's a shame as we used to get my school uniform from the store in Bromley when I was a kid (obviously). I won't miss going in there but it's a bit of an institution on our highstreets so will be weird it not being there
Paul Reids Sock
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Completely agree - I also find a lot of their food to be over priced crap. Eating one of their sandwiches at this very moment and it is no better than one from Sainsburys
brakespear
Doctor Worm
How I wish we could have this view back again rather than what we have now.
Also if the BHS closes in Worthing I hope they put in a Primark because Store 21 doesn't really cut it. But it'll probably hang on here, just like Wimpy.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
Its saved ...................or I think it might be
that tw@t that owns sorts direct is sniffing around
more over stocked cheap shite then
that tw@t that owns sorts direct is sniffing around
more over stocked cheap shite then
Cian
Well-known member
If you want to see what it'll turn in to under his ownership (you probably don't), he bought a department store in Dublin called Heatons (who coincidentally bought the closed BHS stores here).
Its crap. Its basically Woolworths without the magazines and nearly every branch has a Sports Direct upstairs.
I do however buy stuff there occasionally - needed some jugs for gravy at Christmas and its the only place that sells the charcoal filters for my cooker hood.
I tend to buy clothes for my mum for her birthday or Christmas in BHS. I used to look at jeans in there for myself, but they never had anything I liked for me so I stopped that. So I guess they get my money twice a year and that's about it.
BHS, along with Habitat and Laura Ashley, still haunts my 80's Brighton childhood. Just Laura Ashley to go and I will have my vengeance...
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Same. Can see M&S food surviving and maybe even flourishing, whereas their clothes are nowadays mostly cheap crap outsourced to Indonesia. Can see them maybe just about about getting away with it until the current generation of pensioners pops their clogs, then can easily see M&S going exactly the same way as BHS. Seems very much like a brand that's run it's course.