Shopaholics, your wait is almost over.
Madly popular global retailer Primark has set a date for the opening of its huge new store at Monks Cross, York.
Drumroll please… It will open its doors for the first time on Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 10am.
The fashion group revealed the date via posters on the store and a countdown clock on its Monks Cross page. Here’s our own version:
This has been one of York’s most anticipated shop openings since work began on the store back in March 2015.
Primark has taken over the units which once housed Marks and Spencer, Sports Direct and Laura Ashley. Expanding the shopping space with the addition of mezzanine floors, the megastore will boast 57,600 sq ft of retail space – far bigger than the already pretty impressive 34,400 sq ft store planned for the Coppergate branch in the city centre.
York firm Simpson have been on site fitting out the interior of the store since December.
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Primark likes to make a big deal of its store openings, as this video of the launch of the branch in Cologne, Germany, makes clear.
Even the retailer acknowledges it can get a bit bonkers:
The craziness that follows when the staff count down the last 10 seconds to opening has to be seen to be believed. Customers – many of whom will have travelled long distances and queued to get in – storm the store grabbing everything they can find. It’s electric!
New range, new jobs
Bargain hunters will be able to choose from mens and womenswear, children’s clothes, homeware and gifts.
The store will also be promoting its range of summer clothing, launched this week.
Some of Primark’s new summer range
But if you’d rather have a new job than a new pair of beach shorts, you might also be in luck. Primark says the new store will create 222 new jobs.
While many vacancies have been filled there are still some up for grabs on the website. But be quick as there is a deadline for applications on many of them of Tuesday, April 12.
There is still no word as to when the city centre Primark, at the Coppergate Centre, will open.
It’s November now any update on opening store in coppergate?
Still no official date Andy, although we do know it’s been put back to December.
Hi Guys,i was just wondering if you have a date for when the coppergate store will open?
Hi Zoe. At the opening of the Monks Cross store, the regional manager told us the most likely date would be autumn – October or November.
What are the midweek opening hours please
Hi Ms Soulie. All the opening hours are here.
What time will it close? needed as we live in Scarborough
Hi Zoe. According to the Primark website it is due to close at 7pm on Saturdays
When does coppergate store open ?
Good question Helen. We’re trying to find out.
Oh yes!!.
There are many things the beat a Primark opening senseless for excitement too.
Many many things that are not manipulative or exploitative like these artificially public relations created time and life wasting affairs.
How shallow and braindead these “eager” crowds are. .
Lol, you seem to be talking to yourself Mann!
You show the frenzied crowds of salivating undereducated wage slaves slathering like rabid dogs over the consumer cornucopia pouring out its vast retail heap of polluting junk cheap clothes.
Made for starvation wages under atrocious conditions in SE Asian sweatshops.
All to enrich a few multi millionaire owners.
No taste.
No beauty.
No sense.
Chill!
I really hope that YorkMix are getting a hefty fee from this chain for such prominent product placement. What with this and the free junket to Las Iguanas you seem to have lost your focus on local small businesses. York Press seems to be focussing more on local small businesses, pubs (new brewery), theatre’s, cafe’s and children’s centres opening after the floods.
I understood when they got planning permission for this that it was on condition that they had one in the city centre as well. What about the one which was going into the old Marks and Spencers on Picadilly?
If you read the whole article you will see that it mentions the store in Coppergate………
It says in the article it will be in the coppergate part which backs onto piccadilly
Try reading the article.