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  1. Some years ago when they opened the Primark in Brussels, there was a huge queue outside, when the shop door opened, a massive horde of people (zombies) ran inside, people where fighting in the shop, clothes thrown on the floor…
    Savages!!!

  2. I feel like this happens at every Primark I’ve ever been to.
    I guess people think you can behave like this just because it’s cheap? Always makes me feel bad for whoever needs to reorganise that!

  3. I just want to fold it! I can’t stand this type of behaviour, it says so much about a person. I never go shopping on a Saturday exactly because of this, people are sauvage!

  4. Maybe it has to do with the way the clothes are presented? When everyone has to unfold the piece to see how it looks like and to search for their size, and there’s a lot of customers, lot of clothes, more articles on one table and not enough of employees who would rearrange it back constantly, this is inevitable.

  5. That’s what you get for shopping at Primark. To be really honest I would never buy or step in a store like this. Bad quality and very bad for the environment..

  6. Its because of the way how they stack certain clothes tho. Unless they divide them per size, they usually just pile them, especially the cheaper clothes. It makes it harder to pick your size out hence this chaotic pile.

  7. It happens in a lot of clothing stores my sister worked in a clothing store in knokke an a few girls came in and where just took clothes hold in in front of them in the mirror and just threw them on the ground when she wanted to cofront
    Them about it the store manager told her not to for two reasons the girls where jewish girls from antwerp who where on vacation the perents did not care about there daughters behaveiour and 2 the manager was scared that the girls would ask for my sisters name her fear was once that they would know that my sister has a german family name that they were going to play the nazi card

  8. My sister works as a mobile merchandiser (brands that sell their products in existing stores) and boy does she have stories. People often mistake her for an employee too, even though she is clearly not wearing the store uniform and rather another. Fair enough, if someone needs help, she’ll redirect them or she just helps them out. But the amount of shoving, getting screamed at, being spat on, and having to call in security she’s had to deal with is absurd. The larger the city the worse it seems, I guess anonimity comes into play here and maybe that big cities aren’t generally such fun places? Still, it is in no way acceptable to direct this at someone doing their job.

    I already feel the need to apologise to someone who is stocking shelves for bothering them with a question, and if I see something that is misplaced and I know where it belongs I’ll put it in the right spot. It costs nothing to be kind and you get so much for it back, I wish everyone could experience that because I’m certain a lot of people who are unkind or don’t show respect would feel better for themselves and adjust their behavior. I guess I lucked out that I always saw how my mom had positive interactions with staff and once I stopped being an awkward teen I decided that was how I was going to be too.

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