A former Primark employee has shared a story that still haunts her to this day. Posting on TikTok, Georgia Pontin said when she was working in the changing room section an experience left her very disturbed.
She said: "I worked at Primark and there are stories that stiill haunt me to this day and this is one of them. I worked in the bra section and one day I had to take the bras that were in the fitting room and put them back on the shelves.
"I did my usual and grabbed a chunk of bras from the fitting room and started putting them out. As I was walking round, I smelled something really, really bad.
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"It smelled like stale cigarettes and I was getting worried because I knew someone would complain about me not doing my job properly."
She walked around still trying to put the bras back, when she realised where the odour was coming from.
"I reached for one of the bras in my hand, which I had never seen before, then it clicked and I realised that this was the source of the smell," she said. "Someone had gone into the fitting rooms and switched their own bras out with one of Primarks.
"So please always wash your clothes because you don't know whether they're from Primark or not."
She then posted that customers' shouldn't 'worry because Primark can't physically sell that product that doesn't belong to them'.
Amassing thousands of views, dozens of people commented under the post. One person wrote: "Always used to happen when I worked at M&S too. And people walking out in shoes."
Another said: "I worked in shoes and people always swapped them out but it waws very noticeable so I threw them away."
Last week, the popular chain confirmed that Bristol's Primark would soon be getting its own Greggs cafe. Visitors can expect a ‘Tasty by Greggs’ style interior with doughnut-inspired seating booths, a Sausage Roll swing, and interactive Greggs phone box.
Greggs and Primark have been working in partnership for over a year with both the clothing range and the ‘Tasty by Greggs’ Cafes being a huge success. The two companies launched the idea of having a Greggs cafe in Primark in Birmingham followed by the Oxford Street store in London.
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