Primark coming to Tenerife

[Janet]

Primark is coming to Tenerife. The Irish fashion chain expects to open a branch in the Centro Comercial Meridiano in Santa Cruz towards the end of this year or the beginning of next, say commercial sources. Apparently restructuring works in the CC are already underway. The decision was taken after the great success the business has made of its two Gran Canarian branches.  Announcing the new Tenerife store yesterday, the chain also announced further openings in September and October in Pamplona, Badajoz, Valladolid, Alicante and Zaragoza, bringing the number of shops in Spain to 32. JA

[Janet]

Primark has now applied for an opening licence for its new premises. The application has now been recorded in the BOC and it just remains to finalize negotiations and complete the remodelling works  to the shop. Primark says it cannot yet confirm an opening date more specific than "2013", but this is clearly getting closer now. JA

[Janet]

After repeated silences in response to questions about an opening time for the new store in the Centro Comercial Meridiano, Primark has at last said that it will be "very soon", and that they will shortly have an email address available for job applicants to send CVs. I don't know what "very soon" means, but it does sound as though it will be open this year after all. JA

[Janet]

Primark says that today the remodelling works are to be checked and they will let us know the outcome. JA

[Janet]

Primark has announced that it will be open in time for Christmas. The new store in the CC Meridiano now has its opening licence and is being finished off ready for doors to open. The exact date is still not being announced, but we can now be very clear about the timescale! JA

[Perikles]

Primark has announced that it will be open in time for Christmas.

Being Tenerife, they don't specify which Christmas.

[El Profesor]

I'm unfamiliar with this shop. What's the thing?
Is the interest in this shop generated by brand familiarity for ex pats, like Iceland?
Or is it a really cheap appeal like Lidl?

The only time I've heard of them was when one of their factories fell down in Asia killing all and sundry. Apparently the were selling tshirts for 2 pounds each.

[Janet]

No idea, but they seem very very popular ...   

[Nova]

I think the appeal is that Primark clothes copy the latest fashions but are much cheaper than other high street stores.  I've been in the store in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens and it was awful.  A huge floorspace laid out like a cram-packed seconds store, full of people wrestling and rummaging, and if there's one thing I hate when clothes shopping, it's rummaging.  I hate crowds everywhere.  I like to be able to walk into a clothes shop and see at a glance whether they have what I'm looking for so that if they don't I can spin on my heels and walk right out again.  The idea of having to root through individual hangers that are tightly squeezed too many to a rail and dig through bins of randomly thrown items is unthinkable to me, but having to battle hoards of other people doing the same is an absolute nightmare.

Still, if Primark's what the people want.  I won't be going near it though.

[Michael]

Cheap clobber for the masses.

We have one not too far from us. SWMBO might go there if she wants a couple of cheap tops or a shirt for me but it's not somewhere you'd go for that special item.

When I wanted a shirt for my daughter's wedding I went to M&S. Chandra's dress was bought in Belfast.