Primark or a bullet to the head? I'll choose the bullet, please (Primark)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	Primark
Date:	22/08/09 (73 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap

Disadvantages: An awful, awful place

I am a man. And as I man I hate shopping, it's programmed in my brain and it runs through my blood. The thought of being dragged around a faceless shopping centre fills me with a mixture of fear and trepidation. But I'm also married, and so one of my duties as a "good" husband is to take the other half shopping as a thank you for cooking, cleaning and doing her other wifely duties.

Unfortunately for me, the wife's favourite shop is Primark which I hate with a passion. If you've never been to Primark, then you're a very lucky person - it's basically a cheap, horrible clothes shop for cheap, horrible people who have no taste or style (no offence intended to the lovely people on dooyoo who might happen to shop in Primark).

Being dragged around one of their stores can only be likened to such other horrible activities as passing a kidney stone or being slowly stretched on a medieval torture wrack. In fact, most of the time I'd take the wrack!

I've had the misfortune of being dragged around 2 of Primark's stores in the last 24 hours and they're all pretty much the same: brightly lit and full of junk. They sell clothes for women, children and men - although I personally wouldn't be seen dead in Primark clothes.

To be fair, the clothes are quite reasonably priced meaning that the Mrs can go on a fairly large spending spree without actually spending too much of my hard-earned money.

However, going into Primark is almost guaranteed to make me mardy for the following reasons:

1. It's full of the country's less-desirable people. Yes, I know that some normal people shop there, but there is a high percentage of people who have come straight from the dole queue (no offence intended to people who've lost their jobs in the current economic climate).

2. The stores are a mess with clothes slung all over the place.

3. The queues for the changing rooms are horrendous.

4. The queues for the tills are even worse.

5. The clothes are really, really crappy.

My only hope is that I'll turn on the TV one day and see that this awful shop has gone into administration. Sadly, I can't see that happening though :(

Summary: Undoubtedly my least favourite shop in the whole wide world