Shopping in the Department Stores in Manchester [1]
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...store filling your basket to the brim with all sorts of marvellous
items at prices that you won’t find anywhere else. The only
negative side to this is that once you reach the fitting rooms, you
are only able to take in 6 items at a time and the queues are quite
long, especially on weekends. But fear not, your other items can be
kept aside for you to swap over to them once you have finished with
the first batch. I also found myself in the centre of a large queue
at the check out, but with many assistants on the tills, the queues
do die down fairly quickly. Words of advice: do not let the queues
put you off; if you are in Manchester, definitely visit Primark!
Leaving
Primark with several plastic carrier bags (yes, unlike most Primark
stores, Manchester’s Primark gives you plastic bags
and not paper ones which rip—the environment will forgive you
just this once), I took a look through the other shops which Manchester’s
main shopping street has to offer. There is a huge HMV store selling
everything from the latest chart-topping albums, to less known bands
and bands from the 1970s to early ‘80s Manchester music era:
Elbow, New Order, Joy Division. Take a break from the shopping for
a while and have a browse through the CDs, DVDs and books that this
impressive store holds.
If the Arndale Centre does not have enough
sports shops for you, Market Street holds Allsports and Adidas, where
you will find anything from running trainers to golf clubs. And if
you fancy skiing down Market Street or the escalators of the larger
stores (not something I personally like to do myself but everyone
has their own interests), you only need to pick up a pair of skis
from one of these shops. But if sports doesn’t appeal to you,
Next is also situated along Market Street, where you can find anything
from home accessories to smart suits. Other shops along Market Street
include the brilliant H&M clothes shop, with plenty of fashionable
and stylish clothes and footwear, a Tesco store with spacious aisles,
and Ann Summers to name but a few.
Browsing the department stores…and
splashing the cash…
After touring both the Arndale Centre and
Market Street and still with plenty of time to indulge in some retail
therapy, I decided that the next best thing to do would be to look
around the larger department stores in Manchester. These included
Debenhams and TK Maxx, as well as Selfridges in Exchange Square and
Harvey Nichols on New Cathedral Street.
I found the Debenhams store
to be like any other, selling clothes, fragrances, cosmetics and
home wear, although Market Street’s
Debenhams does have a large menswear floor, with stylish shirts and
jeans from makes such as Ben Sherman and Levi. The cosmetics department
on the floor above sells make up by any cosmetic make you can think
of, including Bobbi Brown, MAC, Max Factor and Urban Decay. Make
up lessons are available from the assistants at each separate cosmetics
counter—prepare to sit back and relax whilst they call to your
make up needs. The other department store on Market Street is TK
Maxx, a popular store where you will be sure to find everything to
suit your needs.
High prices are the norm in Harvey Nichols. Opened
in Exchange Square in 2003, the store spreads across three elegant
floors, the second floor holding a Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie.
Touring the Womenswear section, I was astounded to find absolutely
every designer brand I could think of displayed extravagantly all
over the floor. Looking .....
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