Reply With QuotePeople will "shop till they drop"- literally...
So shops are reopening, meaning that we can browse and hopefully find something we like. However like many, I have been asked to make appointment and how will this impact on the experience? How will it work if you need time to decide on your purchase?
Maybe there will bargains to be had as shops will be competing for business. It will be interesting time for everyone.
People will "shop till they drop"- literally...
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Won’t be shopping for non-essentials for foreseeable future. Why risk it?
With the exception of Haywood's shop haven't bought a watch from a High Street shop in over 10 years. It has been business as usual during the last few months buying and selling a few things. I am now spent up and where I need to be, so have no need to be going anywhere near any shops anytime soon.
I think appointment method makes sense for watch purchases - in current climate - and they can get in any that you particularly want to see. Makes it more feel more “exclusive”?
Guess that many will keep just buying online though. There have already been bargains online.
Last edited by MartynJC (UK); 15th June 2020 at 07:52.
Same here. The virus is still out there.Originally Posted by Kingstepper
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Plus what sort of experience will it be?
How will they kiss your ass from two metres?
Not my scene old chap, each to their own I suppose.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
I suspect the young girl that stores seem to keep on hand to simper "looks great on your wrist" can do so while stood behind a protective plastic screen and wearing a mask but you might as well cut to the chase and just head off to a more specialist company if you like that sort of thing...
Will you be allowed to try them on your wrist? I suspect not or if you can with restrictions, such as wearing gloves and over a shirt sleeve or such like.
Hard to make a final decision if you can’t try it on at some point.
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My understanding is they have ordered fake arms (like they use for medical training) and they will see what size your arm is and attached the watch to the arm of your choice - you will then be able to view it through a plastic screen.
Same for us.
Ha ha, very good. Seriously, how desperate have you got to be to risk your health. Primark is barbaric at the best of times.
I’ve already been into an AD to collect. Overt measures in place within the store were nil. Just common sense like when you go to Sainsbury’s. No handshaking welcomes and keep your distance. The appointment system will add to this too.
The desks had been set up with plastic screens with a ‘mouse hole’ for passing objects underneath.
No issues trying anything on. No gloves or sleeves. They just gave it a wipe down before AND after.
I thought this while looking at media this morning - I notice the media are all only taking pictures of primark - not much action from stores serving more affluent consumers?
That’s good to know.
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Like I said, not my scene.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
That's not good, I would expect an AD to at least soak a watch that some stranger has handled in a sterilising solution. The thing is waterproof and at least the sterilising agent gets into all the nooks and crannies of the bracelet and will render the watch virus free.
The problem here is that some gawper goes into the shop, handles a few watches and then walks out. Is he infected or not. Personally I would stay away from any non essential purchase.
Like others have said I’m in no hurry to visit shops for non essential items. It’s pretty obvious to me that the easing is being done more for the sake of the economy - the virus is still out there. Unfortunately for retailers I suspect the enforced online shopping option for the last few months has made people realise how much more pleasant and cheaper it is than driving miles to a shop, finding somewhere to park (at a price) and fighting your way through hordes of shoppers.
I am curious about the comment above about dunking a whole watch in sanitising solution - wouldn’t that affect the seals? - I’ve been wearing a g shock throughout lockdown and have washed it with soap and water but kept hand sanitiser well away from it - lest it melt the bezel/strap and/or the case seals!
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Not all watches come on bracelets.
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Do as clothes/book stores are doing and quarantine viewed items for 48 hours or whatever it takes.
Yes I think we all know that, so obviously you would not dunk a leather strapped watch in a water based sterilising solution. You may have to isolate it for 48 hours with the problems that it incurs.
Given that R is a lagging indicator - images like this tell me everything I need to know about returning to the High Street:
Fliegers?
But if they do that and I don’t buy the watch how will I be able to put pics on my Instagram feed, without giving the game away that I don’t own the watch?😀
Dying to get some new trainers perhaps? (Niketown) Not much social distancing in evidence!Given that R is a lagging indicator - images like this tell me everything I need to know about returning to the High Street:
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
In this instance it was a collection appointment.
I don’t know how they, or any shop seriously expect to control gawpers and those intent on fingering everything, including supermarket essentials.
Something looked at here but not purchased is then quarantined for 72 hours. Others are using UV cleaning devices. Both seem to be accepted industry standards.
What your itinerant bag-men selling through Instagram / Facebook / recommendation-from-bloke-in-pub-with-too-much-hair-and-alco-sweat are doing, I can only guess.
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There's a few watches I'd really like to see in the metal to work-out if I really want to consolidate parts of my collection, but there's not an icecube-in-hell's chance I'm going to put other people's lives at risk for what is pretty much the most inessential purchase imaginable.
I'm fairly sure that I contracted COVID-19 quite early-on from a friend who worked on a large building-site in London - symptoms were minor but distinctive: immense fatigue, muscle and joint pain, and a complete loss of sense of smell. Not been tested, and it's a good while back so I should no longer be contagious, but why the hell chance killing people for something so trivial as a wristwatch?
Luckily in Scotland we don't have this problem ,the great leader Nicola Sturgeon is keeping us safe a little longer by opening things up more slowly ,She is following the science and the r number very carefully ,
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The quarantine seems to be the best option. However I wonder how it will work with sought after piece. You can come back in 3 days to buy it Sir....
treat like going to the supermarket.
You can always wash your hands when you get home and avoid touching your face and eyes (wear a mask). Take personal responsibility. And quarantine / wash if you want, the watch purchase for 3 days at home.
My view is that if I am not sending my children to school, then I must exercise the same caution by not going shopping (with exception of food/household) and remaining at home.
If I did have money to purchase a watch, I would pay for it over the phone and request delivery or collect it at some point in the future.
What is a pain is that you cannot buy Tudor online as something has caught my eye...
With what exactly?
"I'll just get a cloth, sir …"
Sturgeon seems to be the Cuomo of the UK during this.
high streets are packed with odd people and chavs who are into shopping frenzy..not interested in walking in the high street at all for some time.. even a grail watch can wait under these circumstances
So I went to Bristol town centre when the shops opened on Monday. A few observations: there were plenty of people about, but apart from the queues outside Primark & JD Sports, most shops were not busy by any means. People seemed mostly to be there to enjoy the relative normality of it.
I went to Fraser Hart & Goldsmiths, both asked if I had an appointment but let me in regardless. I've spent much of lockdown trying to choose between a Black Bay black, a BB 58 & a Planet Ocean, so I was keen to try them on. Fraser Hart had the Tudors, and Goldsmiths had a Planet Ocean & some Speedmasters. Everything done with the assistant behind a screen & with gloves/mask, Fraser Hart wiped them afterwards, Goldsmiths put the watches in a UV cleaner for approx. 3 minutes before & after giving them to me. All very straightforward & worked fine. WIll probably go to Mallory's in Bath on Monday, because I still can't make up my bloody mind.
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