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  • Primark
    Guildhall Shopping Centre
    Exeter
    Devon
    United Kingdom
    EX4 3EJ
  • Tel: 01392420931

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Gray23 profile image
Rating - positive on 24/07/2008 by Gray23 (99 reviews)
This is a really good place to come for a great baragin, all their clothes are really cheap, the quality isn't amazing but its so cheap it doesn't really matter! However you can only take 4 items intop the changing room which gets really irratating as i always have loads to try on!
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Rating - positive on 16/02/2008 by ruthie14 (29 reviews)
I love this shop. It is the best Primark I've ever been in (including Oxford Street). It has a really wide range of clothes and accessories, as well as some good household items. It's a big store, so you don't feel cramped, and obviously the prices are fantastic. The only improvements that could be made are the fitting rooms (you can only take in 4 items and they are sometimes a bit dirty) and the queues at the tills. I do really like this shop though, and as a student it has been realy useful for me.
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Taupe profile image
Rating - positive on 14/02/2008 by Taupe (50 reviews)
i've bought some very cheap clothes there, quite hard to find staff to help you find something. i got a jumper for 2.00 there also some cool £3 t-shirts.
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Madeleine profile image
Rating - positive on 10/01/2008 by Madeleine (272 reviews)
My latest 'find' at Primark ....... men's boxer shorts, cotton, nice classic stripes and checks ..... only £4 for two pairs. Fantastic!Also a good range of men's t-shirts (Small will fit a small-ish teenager) with slogans for only £3, and slightly better ones for £4 and £5!For myself, I don't often find the really chic bargains that I see some of my friends wearing, but they are there apparently, along with lots of rather inferior stuff. But it IS very cheap and fun.
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Rating - positive on 02/11/2007 by snack (52 reviews)
I went into this shop looking for some clothes that I needed, I went to some of the new shops in Princesshay but i couldn't find anything so I went to the Primark in the guildhall and found all that I needed at great prices.They sell lots of different things for females and males.Overall this is a great shop
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cf225 profile image
Rating - positive on 13/09/2007 by cf225 (8 reviews)
As with all other Primark stores, you get what you pay for.The clothes are always reasonably priced, perfect if you want throw away fashion. Unfortunately, because of this, the store is nearly always a mess, with clothes all over the floor and on the wrong display hangers. The staff tend not to be the most polite of assistants and generally dont know the answers to your questions. The changing room is also nearly always a mess, with clothes left in the cubicles, and normally a fairly long queue, particularly as for a strange reason, they only ever open the upstairs changing rooms.
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Rating - positive on 01/09/2007 by tammy3219 (50 reviews)
Primark is great for buying cheap clothes and shoes. The layout of the store can be chaotic and you do have to hunt to find those bargains. Some of there stuff is a bit random though my friend managed to buy a whole outfit for a fancy dress party for less than a tenner. The queues for the tills can be long but I have only had to wait to use the changing rooms on a small number of occasions.
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Rating - positive on 28/08/2007 by vgriggs (199 reviews)
As we all know you can get clothes that are unbelieveably cheap. But beware you have to hunt! Cardis for £8 dresses for £6 you just cant grumble! Duvets are a tenner shoes £3 i just get soooo excited when i go in here! Remember everyone else thinks this so the queues are the only pitful!
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leone111 profile image
Rating - positive on 15/08/2007 by leone111 (35 reviews)
Primark is great for accessories, namely as they are quite cheap and look good. It is great to buy something there to wear on a daily basis. Earings are cool there. In addition, anything in Primark is good as can be combined with some really expensive itimes you have. And if you are in London, just stop by to the primark in Oxford street,
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Rating - neutral on 14/08/2007 by Sasha Jacques (100 reviews)
This store is a great place to buy cheap clothing. It has a great range of clothes, shoes, accessories, home furnishings and much more. However, the products are also of a cheap quality and do not tend to last long.
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Rating - positive on 12/08/2007 by leone111 (35 reviews)
Primark is great for accessories, namely as the are quite cheap and look good. It is great to buy something there to wear on a daily basis. Earnings are cool there. In addition, anything in Primark is good as can be combined with some really expensive items you have. And if you are in London, just stop by to the primark in Oxford street,
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Rating - positive on 08/08/2007 by sorinv79 (290 reviews)
Not all the people have a good opinion about Primark. I want to say that I like Primark; has cheap items, a god variety of products; for men, I enjoyed their offer on shorts, shirts and jeans. Also, for girls, there are plenty of cheap items. I liked also becasue there modern items, for young people. I don't like that there is too much people inside the shop, too much noize; I'm getting tired after half an hour.
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molly profile image
Rating - neutral on 07/08/2007 by molly (52 reviews)
A giant jumble sale. Very popular and some good cheap items, such as t-shirts etc, whenever I have been in there the queues to pay have put me off, and if I have found something I end up putting it back for another day. Maybe because I have only been in there at the weekend and not early enough in the day before everyone has untidied everything!
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Rating - neutral on 27/07/2007 by siena14 (78 reviews)
The clothes are cheap and fairly nice designs, so you can get some real bargains - everything is mostly under £10. However, the clothes are presented horrendously. You can never find the size you are looking for - the general size is 16 -18, and there is a serious shortage in staff. But, if you can bear a bit of searching, it nearly always pays off. Although there are always large queues at tills.
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Rating - neutral on 19/07/2007 by daleloach (53 reviews)
As far as Primark stores go, the Exeter branch isn't half bad. Sure, you still get the chaotic plies of jumbled clothing, and sizes that don't quite match where they're put, and the staff are typically absent; but the Exeter store is large, roomy, clean and not quite as chaotic as many of the other Primark stores.The clothes are cheap (though sometimes not as cheap as you would expect,) though they often fit quite badly. There is also a homeware section, with budget towels/cushions etc.Not the worst shopping experience, and surprisingly pleasant for a Primark store, but still it is noticeably a Primark store, with many of its trademark irritating factors.
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djm profile image
Rating - positive on 17/07/2007 by djm (159 reviews)
As a person who really couldn't care less about fashion, this is the perfect place to shop. T-Shirts for £3! Jeans for less than £10 and they're fairly good quality aswell.However, the mens section is miniscule compared to the ladies which takes up the rest of the entire shop. There is however usually a good range of designs and I've always managed to pick something up - even if I didn't want to.Staff on the tills are usually friendly, have had some grumpy ones but there are so many there I can't generalise and say the staff are unfriendly.
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Rating - positive on 17/07/2007 by jlt-uk (100 reviews)
Primark sells some fantastic clothing at very cheap prices, whilst the range is all very similar you can get basic t-shirts for as little as £2.50. The underwear, pyjama and swimwear section is getting bigger and bigger and downstairs offers a very good acccessories and shoes section. Queues can be massive on the weekends but there are sufficient tills upstairs and downstairs to cope with it. Its a huge store with a lot to offer and is always worth a look in my opinion.
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Rating - neutral on 09/07/2007 by RobinB (580 reviews)
There's something about Primark that worries me! I'm not normally averse to a bargain, but there's something unsettling about being able to buy 3 pairs of knickers for 99p - who made them? How much did they get paid? Was their sister put out on a hill at birth? I suppose it's a case of 'make hay while the sun shines' for most people. With the price of a pig rising 72% in China last year I don't suppose this bonanza will last long.
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Rating - neutral on 06/07/2007 by Gandalf (100 reviews)
Something about going into Primark brings me out in a cold sweat.I don't know, maybe it's the lack of air conditioning.. all that recycled breath.I freely admit that it's convenient for someone with my bank balance to be able to afford new clothes, but that convenience comes with a price. Namely, the knowledge that what I've just purchased was made by a kid being paid 5 pence a day somewhere in Cambodia - and the fact that I've just queued for 20 minutes for the priviledge.
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Rating - positive on 05/07/2007 by Kittyx (185 reviews)
I know that morally I shouldn't like this shop, but I love it!It's cheap, cheap, cheap! Not only that, it offers a great range of kids clothes from newborns to teenagers. Lovely range of (sometimes tacky) accessories & bags. Not to mention shoes, clothes & this branch has a small homeware section & menswear section. The only down-side is the staff, or rather lack of them. More tills need to be opened at peak times & the staff need far more training when they have problems with their tills. Also a sign over the pay areas stating that returns can only be done downstairs would be helpful!.
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Rating - positive on 05/07/2007 by helena (12 reviews)
I often shop in this primark and am usually impressed by the range of clothes and the turnover in new styles that they have. You cannot complain on the prices, as they are very cheap, the most expensive item of clothing i have bought cost around £8. They are following the styles of shops such as topshop and becoming more fashionable. The shop itself is usually quite messy however this is usually the case with primark stores particularly as their clothes are often out on shelf therefore people usually dump the clothes back on the shelves as opposed to folding them back up, and there are not enough staff to tidy up after customers. The ques at the tills are usually long however there does seem to be quite a few people working on the tills. Overall for the price you pay for the clothes, i am pleased with what i receive.
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Rating - neutral on 05/07/2007 by victoriaw (198 reviews)
For cheap clothes in a jumble sale manner this is perfect!This is one of the worst primarks i have ever been into, it's size is impressive and the stock vast but they need hundreds more staff to sort out the array of clothes strewn all over the shop.I know that if you pay £3 for a jumper you can't expect it to last until you are 100 but you would like to hope that if you see something you like it will be with other items similar to it. I am always very disappointed with primark and this is no exception.Downstarirs in the home ware and shoes dept it is much better however and you can hope to find something in your size!
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