Sally Redux

Old Navy usually has some kind of deal going on.

choppi

When I take a trip back home, usually in the summer, I always stock up on pj's for the kids.

Pulaski

Well I don't/ won't be shopping in either, not so much for price and quality reasons as that I need long fittings in everything, and I have difficulty keeping a long fitting shirt tucked in, and the sleeves of non-long fitting shirts are 4"-6" short of my wrists.

Anyone who pays full price at Old Navy, JCP, Kohl's, etc. is a mug. Our junk mail is perpetually full of 20%-50% discounts for those and similar stores. When Mrs P buys clothes for little Miss P at Kohl's she is always given more coupons for the next week. On one occasion Mrs P didn't have the coupon for that day, and when the sales assistant asked if she had one, the sales assistant said, "Never mind, I'll take 20% off for you.".

Thinking about it, the competition for Primark is going to be the dollar stores, and places like Magic Mart and Ollies (which are local/regional), but I'm sure everywhere has trashy discount stores, don't they?

Joandripple

Nothing like a bit of "Primanii"!

Junebug72

Why could it have not been a marks and Spencer's

Sally Redux

Food hall

MMcD

yum yumm yummmbo

hungryhorace

M&S tried that, and the Americans didn't go for it, unfortunately.

MMcD

They did?
When?
Where?

Jerseygirl

Marks and Spencer owned a handful of upmarket supermarkets in New Jersey....Kings Supermarkets. They sold some Marks and Spencer dry and seasonal goods. M&S sold the stores about 8 years ago.

They also owned Brooks Brothers clothing stores...they sold the stores around 12 years ago.

rpjs

We recently went to Bermuda on holiday and were delighted to find an M&S there. Missus stocked up on knickers and we got some other clothes and sweets from the food section. We remarked to one of the staff about how sad we are that there are no Marks in North America proper and she told us that they're planning to return to Canada next year.

Sally Redux

It's funny how it's not 'upmarket' back home, more of a pensioners' paradise

Pulaski

Great!

Owen778

That has changed over the last decade, to some extent. I remember I used to dread getting clothes as presents from M&S when I was a child. Some of the stuff was OK, but I'd get polo shirts (which I've always hated), jumpers with pointless buttons and T-shirts with slogans that tried to be cool and failed. These days, they still carry some of that sort of stuff, but at least for men's clothes they are much better.

Of course, the difference may be more that I was shopping in their Oxford Street stores, where the clientele is a mixture of teenagers, young professionals and Arabic tourists.

Jerseygirl

I think Kings and BB were upmarket before M&S owned them...and they still are.