Thursday, April 1, 2010

Crew Warehouse sale rummage anyone?....

I haven't mentioned this before because I thought I'd keep it a secret but there's a Crew Clothing warehouse sale going on at Tonbridge School right now. I wanted to go along there with ten or so other people who were in the know and pick up a few bargains. No such luck. I don't know how the heck all the hundreds of people who'd turned up had heard about it but, I'm not kidding, the place was like a church jumble sale. There were people of all shapes and sizes having a right old rummage through the clothes which were mostly piled up on large tables in the middle and round the sides. The car park was chocca full, they were having to redirect people to the sports centre car park. There was a queue of people with huge piles of "bargains" on push chairs, over their shoulders, waiting at least half an hour to pay. I had a brief look, cos I do like crew clothing these days but do you know what, I don't think the prices were that low anyway and you can buy alot of this stuff off their web site at similar prices. I just don't get it sometimes with people and supposed bargains must be the herd mentality or something. I walked out without a thing, I just couldn't bring myself to wait that long, feeling like a sheep following the flock. (That's herds and now flocks!) I really would rather pay full price than go through all that nonesense. But then that's just me....

1 comment:

Hallum said...

Yes , I went to something similar for Trwitt shirts a while back. Companies write to all their customers in an area to say that there is an end of line sale. The one I went to was in Sevenoaks sports hall. I suppose Tonbridge School as a venue would have a very slightly preppy air to go with the Crew brand image.

Talking of brand image. I love seeing the younger 'masters' at the school working hard to achieve that authentic Mr chips look.