Walked through my local Primark today. I have never bought anything before from Primark as I find it irritating but decided that I wanted some more socks as I wanderer through.
I bought a pack of five black socks for £1.70!
How do they do that? I normally pay at least eight pounds for three pairs of socks.
Slave labour making them (apparently) plus they will fall apart very quickly. Personally I love to grab an armful of stuff in Primark for about £20 but I see their stuff as temporary.
I have bought socks in Primark in the past & they last as long as much dearer one's. Their underwear (including shorts type knickers) are excellent. Personally I don't go a bundle on their jumpers but maybe that is just me
They can't be beaten on price, anywhere. You can't buy on-line because they want you to get inside their shop so you can see the great prices, then buy, buy, buy.
Eerrr...cheap labour?
I always get socks in tkmaxx...3 pairs of Pringles socks for 4.99. They last forever.
I've often bought seam free camisoles,and stretchy long-sleeved t-shirts in Primark that last ages.
Read up on Primark before you decide, Tilly.......they claim to work well with partners and organisations in third world countries.
Panorama did a programme showing them using child labour but this was proved to have been faked by the freelance journalist hired by the BBC.
He purchased T shirts from a supplier and then got boys in a backstreet workshop to pretend they were working on them for Primark whilst he filmed.....
One of the reasons I don't shop there is that it's so untidy. I get about six feet into the shop and think, 'I can't stand this!' and then I walk out again!
Excellent link, Mazie....it's easy to assume a cheap store will be using slave/child labour but that's not always the case.
Primark was the first UK store to sign up to the Bangladeshi Accord.....
Having said that...Zambi Sugar, connected to Primark, was accused of ripping off one of the poorest countries in the world by non payment of taxes....
So....as I say...for ethical shopping.....read and decide.....xx