Czechs go crazy for Primark! New Primark opens in Prague to much fanfare. Craziness? Yay or nay.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Hi Everyone! In my first edition of The American Perspective, I'm discussing why Czechs go crazy for Primark! The first Primark store was officially opened in June in Prague on Wenceslas Square and many Czechs lined up for hours to shop the fast fashion retailer. As a foreigner, this reminded me of Americans lining up for deep Black Friday discounts. Are the Czechs embracing western culture a little too much, or is this a great new development in the Westernization of Czechia? Let me know in the comments!
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Inside every Czech person, there are two wolves: One wolf wants to buy quality products. The other wolf wants to save money. Trying to appease both wolves in the most Czech way possible results in buying cheap products and then complaining about the quality :D
Speaking of czechs, it must be lions, right?
Please be careful with "every Czech" generalization :) I'm Czech, too, and I'll gladly pay for high-quality item, and I don't feel guilty about it.
@@petrmilosh with two tails
Nice video. However, I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that Primark is from the west, I think the reason for the horrible queues is dirty cheap prices, other fast fashion stores don't offer prices this low. I'll probably check out Primark too to see if they have anything worth buying, maybe in a month or two when the queues die down.
Stačí tam zajít někdy navečer, to už tam žádný fronty nejsou.. nebo maximálně mini queue s čekáním cca 10-15 min
A navíc za to může omezenej povolenej počet návštěvníků
Interesting video. However, my family is partly Czech and I have many Czech friends living in Prague and nobody is talking about Primark. This kind of thing must be appealing rather to a specific social group than Czechs as a whole. Also, I don't think that Czechs "idolize" anything from the "West" as they might be doing 20 or 30 years ago. On contrary, from what I see they're rather embracing their own Central European identity, because like I've heard: "Nothing good is coming from the East apparently and nothing great is coming from the West lately either" :)
It is also quite possible that PRIMARK paid a large number of people to stand in that queue, then others joined spontaneously. Not likely, but a possibility. In any case, sheeple are very dangerous, they enable tyrants to perpetuate suffering. For example in communist Poland 30k communists oppressed 30 million Poles - 1:1000. It is the millions of sheeple who enable it. Selective breeding of intelligent people seems the only way forward.
@@cernejr Harsh, but true.
@@tetst_54546 With a wise/proactive reproductive/immigration policies very harsh measures can be avoided. For example if China started to regulate reproduction 10y earlier, they would have gotten away with 2-child policy. But they delayed and had to resort to 1-child policy. Big discussion, not possible here.
I think Czechs just expected very different sortiment of products, when you enter typical european store (I mean shops which are common here) like HM, CA or something like that, there are completely same things, everything looks same, when you are small, you can't even find your size because everything is designed only for big or fat people, people just probably expected Primark is so alien for us that it must be completely different and they can buy something totaly unique or in some not so common size or something, but I don't really believe to that, it's not about what shop is that, it's about what market is it, this is Czech market....Primark, HM, CA and others...they all will have same shit here always.
BTW I am not so rich to buying super cheap things, I did this mistake many times. When you have original Levis jeans for 100 eur and some jeans from vietnamese mall for 10 eur, it can be actually cheaper buy original because those are jeans for 10+ years.
@@Pidalin From my experience, Primark jeans cost about 20 euro and last at least 3 years - but believe they will last 5 years. So in my opinion, it's worth it financially.
Czechs took the Black Friday, made it into a whole week and do it at least twice a year... I'm looking at you, Alza
Looking at you Alza 😂😂😂💀
@@DreamPrague I hate Alza and their agressive advertising. I try to avoid shopping there.
People ask "Where does all the brutality and savagery in people come from?" and I simply point to the fact that nobody can actually reach for their TV, yank that green bastard out and stomp on its face 'til it's only green goo. It would be a great outlet!
Twice a year? Feels more like every second week.
Hey, I'm living in London for 8years and I can say it's not just in Czech... Here we had masive queues for Primark after every lockdown, it's just really cheap shop everyone goes to because they need the little bit of shopping therapy. And honestly the quality is not that bad too, had a shirt from there for 8 years... or the other example, bought my self Lewis jeans for £89 (2670CZK) and they lasted same time like those from Primark for £12 (360CZK). Not saying Primark is good, but for daily use, it just makes sense especially for example for work in hospitality...
I agree 100%. No reason to get ripped off. :-)
Is Primark fast fashion? Yes, Does it exploit its employees in Asia? Most likely yes. But it's definitely not worse in quality that H&M or Zara and the difference in prices is immense.
I think it's unfair than Primark gets all this backlash while other shops that have been around 'forever' are seen as.. well, very few people will post on social media about the environmental impact of Bershka clothes. 😅
Exactly. Show me a store that doesn't have Made in PRC/China or Made in Bangladesh on their label. Even Czech store Bushman has it on its sleeve, except it costs 10x more and lasts about a similar amount of time. Or C&A's "organic" line - if you check the certificate, it says that it gets the label if there is at least 5% of organic cotton.
Let's not prevent that there is a solution to dress yourself fully just with local clothes made in pristine conditions. Even second-hand stores rely on fast-fashion stores to produce.
For example, I occasionally buy shorts from Jitex directly which says it creates everything in the Czech Republic, however, it is a fashion for leisure time, and it's not like I would go in these clothes to an interview. Plus, they last as long as your average shorts from a Vietnamese seller or C&A (quite long).
It's like with laptops. There was an outcry about Apple how they made their components in sweatshops. It was very fashionable to point the fingers. What happened? Apple claimed it made some changes, yet nothing really happens and more importantly - all laptop brands have their manufactures in these locations in very same conditions and nobody cares anymore.
Or Nutella. Remember the outcry about it containing palm oil? Have you checked what contains palm oil? All "traditional Czech" cookies and snacks, all shampoos from the supermarket. Who complained about that? Me and like 2 other persons seem to care about it to the point we have bought palm oil-free shampoos for years.
These 2 incidents were also worldwide.
Anyway, I think the reasons for waiting lines were:
1/ COVID lockdowns and the lack of events to attend - some people were starved for something, and it is more exciting to browse through a new store with a different catalogue than these being here for a decade.
2/ 10% of Czechs balance on the poverty line. 10% of Czechs has one or more warrant of execution over their head. Many single mothers struggle a lot, especially after COVID which affected their jobs - often contract not full-time. In these cases, any crown counts.
3/ Some people are just addicted to the word DISCOUNT / SALE / LIMITED OFFER.
All the brands you've named are actually just fashion here. Cheap fashion is what you get at the Vetnamese stall ;)
Ha ha ha 😭
These "cheap" brands are setting much higher prices in ČR than in West. It used to be cheaper to go to Germany and buy sports brands there than go to Prague. And Czhech know thaht in primark they get solid goods for reasonable price. Considering environmentall and labour aspects, the lis would shrink. Because all "brand" stuff goes at least once arround the globe.
And it is similar to "quality" food wich set too high is out of consideration of many. Though it is slowly chainging.
Funny is, that quality of stuff on that Vietnamese stall may be way higher, than Primark or Zara...
not anymore though... Vietnamies stuff are for similar price as stuff in H&M or C&A (during "Sale" season). These days Pepco or Kik are what I would call "cheap fashion" (or just cheap, it's not fashion...).
@Stepan Vopat The stuff from Primark is cheap but definitely solid. The ecological impact isn't just from it traveling around the globe but also from it falling apart after a few uses.
Many Czechs follow the scrooge way of shopping - buy only things that are on sale, always buy the cheapest. These people couldn't miss the arrival of possibly the cheapest store.
Exactly my thoughts.
Czechs are not like that, it's like everywhere, it's new, unseen, these chains will disappear again due to disinterest.
:-) Moc pěkné. Na druhou stranu, kolik % obyvatel Prahy/ČR šlo stát do té fronty, aby se dalo paušalizovat o chování všech?
"Levné" je super lákadlo. Ale "SLEVA" je lepší! Ovšem i tu zde trumfne s přehledem "ZADARMO!" :D
A co je to fronta na Primark ve srovnání s tím co se dělo v reality dokumentu o supermarketu "Český sen/Czech Dream" (2004) :D :D :D Na to se raději ani nedívejte...
a co cesky jarmark jiste strany jednoho muze
jsem z prahy, zatim jsem tam nebyla a pujdu se podivat spis jen na kukandu nekdy na prelomu prazdnin.
Na druhou stranu to není jen o Primarku. Ten sice nabízí levný shit, ale aspoň pěkný levný shit. Většina Čechů nakupuje podobně levné shity v daleko horších obchodech. Nechť si každý Čech sáhne do svědomí - kdy jste si naposled koupili hadr za víc jak litr a boty za víc jak dva litry? :)
@@ptygr v podstatě vždycky :)
@@ptygr si mne dostal nemám ve svém šatníku tričko které je draší jak 400 mikinu max do 800 boty sem si koupil v Anglii za 20 liber jediná věc která mě stála 4500kč jsou glády dr.Martens
The first McDonald's in Prague (and whole Czechoslovakia) was opened in 1992 in Vodičkova street, not Lazarská. Just sayin'
You were faster 😉
@@tomasvalek8839 this McDonald's is just a little bit older than me, actually :D
Tak celý McDonald je skoro Český. Pan Kroc, potomek Českých emigrantů ho "poctivě" odkoupil od bratří McDonaldů a rozšířil do celého světa.
@@vrbka2692 Wow, tak to jsem netušil! :O Úžasné!
@@davementlik8903 V roce 2016 o tom natočili film Zakladatel.
This is the first video on this (my favorite) channel that I perceive as paternalistic and a bit superior. In a way, it reminded me of a Canadian's remark on a facebook that he regretted that he could no longer experience "authentic Prague" because now the girls were running Starbucks coffee and eating sushi on the bench. When told him that it was a bit of a disrespectful remark, because the authentic Prague was held here by, among other things, a foreign army and he would enjoy it and then disappear into the world where he drinks Starbucks and eats sushi, so he took offense. I'm afraid the Czechs are neither better nor worse than other nations ... When given the opportunity, there will always be someone among us who likes to enjoy Starbucks coffee and someone poor who will stand in line in front of Primark...
I'm truly happy to see that most of the second hand clothing stores in Prague have survived the lockdown. They are my favourite way of cheap, sustainable shopping. And there are quite many in Prague, that's a good sign.
Já z Primarku rozhodně nešílím, naopak. Jak se u nás také říká: Nejsem tak bohatá, abych si mohla dovolit kupovat levné věci!
We're still getting out of our "minimalist", "slow" and "second-hand" past caused by the lack of most stuff. I don't expect us to graciously skip the hoarding consumerist phase :D
yeah that's very true. It's somewhat obnoxious to be lectured by an American about needing to be minimalist and shop second hand, when Czechs were forced to live that way under Communism. But I still think it's a good habit to have for the entire planet.
@@DreamPrague Oh, I definitely agree. The only thing I can't get enough of are books and coffee, they'd have to PAY me handsomely to stand in that Primark line.
@@DreamPrague well communism had one positive, you could have a lot of things for free from what you stolen from factory because nobody cared. Just have some friends and a good bottle of alcohol and guards didn't saw anything. And i think that this type of mentality is in our blood.If you can get something for free or from work you can't say no, even if you don't need it. And as we say "Oni mají peněz víc než dost (They have more than enough money)" :D
By the way, in my opinion the queue was really riddiculous thing.
I've heared a gossip the queue ends i Brno. Now that is a horrific end. :D
Please check documentarz Český sen I think you would like it.
Thanks for the rec!
and we have come full circle: casual example of QWERTY/QWERTZ keyboards switcheroo
@@Nekromageofapocalyp There still is Czech querty (non-german) keyboard. But I'm way too used to the US layout of special characters. That's more painful, kdy6 p93e3 jako bl8zen.
@@mannik8 wow! This is awesome! I have never seen anyone to write like this. I find it cool and interesting! ( Not ironic, not joke. I am not Czech. We don’t have that in our alphabet)
@@jammmy30 Yeah, it's a bit strange to use the US layout. Many programmers do it (since we don't have some special characters on the Czech layout and need to use the right alt key for them; it's way easier just to switch to the US layout).
It's the same in my small town , state of São Paulo, Brazil. Long lines when McDonald's and Burger King opened their store here. I think it's the feeling we are finally part of something big and trendy that makes people stay in that line for hours. By the way, once again, a very bright video. You're awesome.
I guess crazy people are everywhere, so why not in Prague? :-) and a "good" directed advertisement combined with the herd mentality does its job. I personally would not even think of going there.
Great video! thanks
I don't think there were many Praguers in that queue. Even there were people from Ireland
Just a smal correction: First McDonalds was in Vodičkova. I know it looks like almost same street as Lazarská, but it's not.
And Czechs, most of those I know at least, they really like cheap shoping so it's not about having a western shop. I'ts really about having cheaper goods.
Jste úžasná a sleduji všechny vaše videa. Dáváte cizincům, opravdu dobré znalosti o naší zemi a vlastně o všem jak to tady chodí. Jen tak dále a držím vám palce při vaší tvorbě o České republice. :-)
When I saw pictures of people in 500 m line, I was like "why these idiots just don't wait 2 days and buy it with no waiting" :-D
Primark is king of plebs everywhere. I prefer charity shops though 🔥 keep it up👍
Exactly! If slave “salary” is paid than slaves have right to shops in accordance with slaves “salary”
There are almost no charity shops in Czechia though. No way to get clothing for reasonable price here, except very few locations. Maybe you get the point now.. :D
I see. There are almost no charity shops in slovakia either and if there are some they are pretty bad. In the uk there is abundance of charity shops.
But even then the primark items are very poor quality and they last for a very short period of time but Im aware majority of young generation love to go there.
By the way, really great content on your channel! Incredible skills to capture the essence of the Czech nation and of the every day life in Prague! Keep up the good work! ☺ 🤗
Prima pohled na naše uvažování.
Děkuji.🌞💓🌞
Vďaka Jen, teraz už viem čo je Primark😁 V podstate to isté, čo naše číňáky, len to šlo cez Nemecko, Rakúsko a tým pádom je to akože "lepšie".
Zhruba před třemi lety jsem si ve Skotsku koupila v Primarku pár triček, mikinu a kraťasy. Všechno to oblečení nosím dodnes, vypadá pořád v pohodě. Takže nemusí jít vždycky nutně o fast fashion, i když chápu, že tento typ obchodů k takovému nezodpovědnému chování (a touze mít pořád víc a víc, pořád nové a nové) přímo vybízí.
Prosím, jenom někteří Češi. Mě to nechává chladným.Zvedá se mě kufr z těch lidí.
Den díkůvzdání u nás? To je přece svátek Američanů, že je domorodci nenechali zemřít hlady.
A velmi toho později litovali. Nicméně, význam se v současnosti přece jen trochu rozšířil.
Myslím, že Jen chtěla říct, že by bylo lepší převzít ideu svátku, kdy si lidé navzájem děkují za to hezké, co jim rok přinesl, než black friday, kdy jde o jenom o konzum bez hlubšího významu.
@@CurvesOnTheRoad Přesně - stejně tak je blost převzít byznysovou sra*ku Valentýn a podobné hovadiny... :)
I recommend watching Český sen. It is an excellent film and a probe into the shopping sounds of the Czech people.
Jen. Please. Don't generalize czechs how we behave. I've been shopping in Primark when living in UK many times. As all my workmates did. Shopping for cheap waiter's clothes. These people willing to be in a queue are either paid. Or stupid. Nothing to do with being czech.
Actually, there is no discussion on fast fashion in Czechia...
Yeah, because not so many people do it. I have some cheap t-shirts that I wear until they start having holes and then I wear them at home. Then I use them as rag. The only thing I need to throw out are jeans since I get holes in the crotch area and they can't be used as rags. But that's about it.
No Americans I know talk about it either ... but maybe they're not cool. :)
Já bych tam nestál ve frontě ani kdyby rozdávali trička zadarmo!!! Ty lidi absolutně nechápu, asi socky...
Čím déle žiji v zahraničí, tím více si vážím své rodné země (přesto se do ní ale natrvalo vrátit nehodlám). Stále objevuji věci, které jsou na Česku a Češích skvělé. Věci, které jsem dříve přehlížela, nevěděla o nich, nebo mi nepřipadaly důležité. Stále víc jsem hrdá na to, odkud jsem.
Češi se stále dívají hodně na západ. A chtějí být jako "oni". Přitom nevidí (ani já to neviděla, než jsem se odstěhovala), že v mnoha oblastech jsme mnohem vyspělejší, než většina ostatních států!
Jsme jedna z nejrychleji se rozvíjejících se zemí na světě. Jedna z nejekologičtější zemí na světě. JEdna ze zemí s nejkvalitnějším vzděláním, zdravotnictvím i sociální péčí. Ano, pořád jsou zde země, které jsou na tom i v těchto oblastnech lépe. Pořád se máme kam rozvíjet a byla by chyba usnout na vavřínech. Ale také je chyba nevidět to a ignorovat.
Zřízení Primarku v Praze však byla chyba. Obrovský krok zpět v tom, v čem jsme dobří!
Stále více se ptám: proč chceme být jako západ? Proč se chceme podobat zemím, které jsou na tom objektivně hůře, než my? Proč zahazujeme to dobré, co naše země má a vyměňujeme to za horší? Proč se stále chceme zavděčovat nějak velmoci? Copak nemáme žádnou národní hrdost? Copak neumíme být dost dobří sami sobě?
When it comes to Primark, I think what entices Czechs the most are the super low prices (Czechs are known to prefer buying more cheap lower quality products over saving up for something pricier) and the fact it's a brand that used to be available only abroad until now. Most of the stores on Wenceslas square that you mentioned are in fact fast fashion, but for an average Czech it's sadly not even that cheap... That's why most Czechs buy it - high quality eco-friendly fashion is expensive and still not easily accessible. But not all Czechs are the same, a lot of young people shop in thrift stores and second hand clothes selling apps.
Hi, Czechs is a bit generalization term🙂 I remember that weird and unnatural media hype, at the time before the opening event. Personally I feel ashamed by marketing overusing or abusing of English language here. Especially some people loves the USA undoubtedly, when they launch a new keto diet product to the store😀
I was walking around Prague with my Czech daughter in law. When I said there is a lot of English language being used she denied it. I just pointed and went there, there, there....
I don't care about fashion. I just want something cheap and then I'll be wearing it until it falls apart five years later.
I recently gave up on a shirt from 1982, heart breaking. My wife wants me to dress "nicely", I don't want to know people who judge me by what I wear.
Myslím, že tam ľudia stáli preto, lebo vedeli že tam bude iný tovar ako na aký sú už zvyknutí...tak boli zvedaví
Vůbec ten obchod neznám a upřímně mne ani nezajímá 😀
Tyhle fronty jsou všude na světě, proč by nebyly tady? Tentokrát jsi vedle a řešíš...trochu nesmyslný věci.
Thumbs up! Very nice video! Yes, I was in Dresden in this shop, for about 2 minutes, I voluntarily left the women's section of the family and went rather look at the Semperoper and the boats on the river Elbe.
IMHO czech people are focusing more and more to quality than to price. I don't know anybody who went to Primark, but I can imagine that teenage girls are going to Primark but I don't think that czech people will change other cheap clothing stores for Primark, it will be just another option where to buy cheap clothes.
I first visited Primark in 2006 when I used to live in England. Never bought anything there as I realized immediatelly, what kind of shop it was. Clothes all over the floor, super cheap, not a good-quality looking. Never came back and never will
Very true. Primark t-shirt only lasts 1 year and costs 60 Kč. I can have t-shirt for 700 Kč, which will last 3 years. PROFIT! :D
I personally don't believe to clothes with less than 10% of children's work.
kids need a work... its better than be unemployed for them :)
Žlutá byla firivachtivachta a ta byla moc drahá :-)
I would never queue for fast fashion store opening, I have nostalgic memories of Primark back when I lived in the UK, they had surprisingly high quality goods for ridiculous prices. When we talk about sustainability we should also mention size inclusion. I wonder how long it would take to find one wearable plus size outfit in all second hand stores in Prague. Several fast fashion brands have discovered this huge gap on the market and started producing interesting clothing from xs to 5xl. I never shop for fast fashion when Im in the USA, because I can find high quality clothes there, but in Czech - sometimes even when you support a decent brand the quality is on the fast fashion level.
Jsou prostě lidé, kteří potřebují být všude první, mít to první, napsat na youtube, že jsou první.. kdyby tam nepřišel nikdo, bylo by to divné
It is just a new and unexplored shop, that is all the magic. Oh, and the bribed would-be customers (Primark employees) standing in queues for 14 days after opening
I visited Primark yesterday because I was walking nearby and there were only about 10 people in the queue. So I was thinking I could make my own opinion about what's inside. Interestingly, there were MANY foreigners, even those who I know for sure have their own Primarks, like Spanish or German. Why would you wait in a queue for a shop you can visit in your country instead of visiting some place local? This was even more mysterius for me than people from small Czech towns wanting to check out a new shop brand.
"Why would you wait in a queue for a shop you can visit in your country instead of visiting some place local?" Umm, maybe because you live in Czechia? Even foreginers can live here FYI. :D
I've only visited Primark in Edinburgh and in Dundee and I only got two items... Scottish flag flip-flops - and a shirt, which is alright (if you don't mind that it's half polyester). However, those flip-flops were for the novelty, something to wear in the glorious Scottish summer, and the shirt...well, that was in a time I didn't have many shirts and I was a poor student. And I still do wear it (if it's not too hot) and it still does hold up.
I did not visit primark here in cz,but i think from my perspective,that im curious about the shop,which is popular in west countries and the fact,it is finally here feels like we are included in modern europe. cheap clothes are bonus. So yes,i think you are right about it
I think that quite a lot of Czechs still feel like they've missed out on capitalism and consumerism. In many ways, the idea of catching up with the West - or more exactly, the idea of West how it was forty, fifty years ago - is still very much alive, and many people still dream of Western consumer abundance that was promised to us: lost of food, big houses and fast cars. A lot of people fail to notice, however, that West has moved on and it's in many ways not the West we used to admire during the communist era anymore.
I don't think Primark's success has much to do with the fascination with the West. It just sets the bar of CHEAP fashion a bit higher with a huge selection of goods (I've only seen a video from the store, never been inside). A lot of people consider H&M, Mango or Zara expensive and rather go to Kik, Pepco or Lidl to shop for clothing. It makes me rather sad and frustrated that a building had been demolished so this glass building could be built and very likely with the original intention to bring Primark to Prague. Because quite frankly, you don't get a better location than this downtown Prague.
I live in England and Primark is very popular here. they follow fashion trends for cheap prices. it's not for everyone.
Vždycky když otevřou něco novýho tak je tam fronta. Je to prostě zvědavost. Třeba mě zajímá když otevřou novou prodejnu pro kutily, železářství, stavebniny. Neviděl bych v tom nic zásadního děje se to všude na světě.
I moved back to Czech Republic after 30 years in Canada, and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised by the Czechs desire to buy CzechMade. A lot of western countries would be much better off if they did that as much as the Czechs do. Perhaps a video on that wouldn’t be out of place Jen @DreamPrague?
I will be happy to help with Czech brands that were built on local market and are now international.
Love the new theme!
Neznám nikoho, kdo by byl na větvi z nějakýho Prajmarku.
I don’t think the reason for the queues is Primark being western but rather them actually selling here for western prices which can not be said about the other “cheap” fashion brands you mentioned. I don’t shop in these stores but it was the discussion I saw/heard often - whether them too will try to rip us off so they can offer cheap prices to their “key market” customers aka Western European and US peeps.
That looks amazing :-D
You got your own TV studio :-D :-D
Cool :-)
But .... her outshit?
@@ctihodnymuz72 I don't mind that. I saw it as an intentional part of the role of news broadcaster.
Thank you.
Actually, most of the fashion stores in Czechia are technically fast fashion. H&M, C&A, Zara, Lindex,... Some practices of Marks & Spencer, Mango and others are not so great either. And most of the people I know (Prague citizens) absolutely hate that. For more general info on what is actually considered fast fashion I recommend Justine Leconte's videos..
Primark is good for basic cotton knickers, socks and basic cotton t-shirts that I wear at home or under clothing.
On everything else it's getting more and more expensive though - to the point that it starts leveling with other, formerly more expensive high street brands like H&M or New Look. Although New look doesn't exist anymore, I think. Perhaps that's why Primark is getting pricier - because the competition is dropping like flies...
Thank you for making this video! More people should know that buying fast fashion is gonna ruin us all.
I agree with the rest of the people here pointing out that it has NOTHING TO DO WITH COMING FROM THE WEST. Jen, this used to be the mindset of people in the communist era and maybe in the early 90s. Now, 30 years from the revolution we don't give a damn if it is from the west, north or east. The problem are the words CHEAP, ON SALE, DISCOUNTS.
That tie is fabulous btw :) And I'm pretty excited about the series :D Go for it!
Zajímavé. Jako většina mých známých či kolegů v práci (všichni v Praze), prakticky ani netuším co to je. Who cares? :D
Blbci blbnou kdykoliv a kdekoliv. A na superblbost přijedou blbci i zdaleka. Takže je to nějak poznat... Klasika. :P
Is that why the queue was there. I just arrived in Prague from Australia and I pasted the line for a week. I kept thinking wow the lockdown must have stopped people from shopping at Primark...so it was new. Well, in hindsight the line could have been heaps worse...also I just finished the grammar test you made for the TLH. This was more entertaining. Do you have an tips for studying at TLH or working as an English teacher in the Czech Republic?
I'll say it for me. There are very few shops for young people in the Czech Republic with sizes 48, 50 ... and plus size at all, not available in sustainable fashion
No nevím, já bych se do tý fronty nepostavil. To bych musel strávit nějaký ten čas v Praze aby mi kleslo IQ.
It's about cheap, not about it's from West.
I live in Scotland and people are queuing there anytime and it's nothing new for them.
I don't feel like the quality of Primark products is any less than the quality of products from stores like New Yorker, H&M, Bershka, Gate etc... It is definitely cheaper though and as for fast fashion, I don't think you can get clothes here that aren't fast fashion. And when you make 100 czk an hour, you're not really looking for this type of store. You just buy a shirt that doesn't cost more than 3 hrs of work and eventually with time put it on the "wear only at home" pile.
While I'm interested to see what the Prague's Primark offers, I'll wait until the crowds die out. I'm mostly excited for the Friends, Harry Potter and other fandom's merch. We don't have a lot of that in here
Jde jen o počáteční eufórii z nového obchodu. Po nějaké době je to přestane bavit, a budou obchody opět navštěvovat jako před otevřením tohoto obchodu.
You´ve hit the nail, Jen, as usual. Always fun to watch your videos.
Proč jsou videa v angličtině ale názvy v češtině?
I mean… I´ve always targeted Primark for Harry Potter merch and boby pins 🤷♀️
Hi, Jennifer,
Sir_Mac here, as always!
This brand new series is great! Great opportunity to listen to properly spoken / pronounced american english, informative content and covering very interesting general topic, demonstrated on one particular example.
I love your "versatility". You can do serious thing, you can do history, you can speak czech, you can make jokes about Americans and Czechs in the same video, you can do serious stuff ... Multitalented... "Všestrannost".
I think, this Primark is destined to be unsuccessful. The huge queue was some sort of "new toy" paradox. Few weeks and nobody will care, nobody will recall it.
There are a lot of Vietnamese shops and markets, if we want something cheap with unknown quality. I think that McDonald's, Starbucks and other companies are snob thing. We Czechs know how to make a perfect hamburger or coffee, we don't need any international brand to show us :-)
On the other hand, the cheap clothes with unknown quality have their place "under the sun", for example now at jižní Morava (Hodonín and other places), where the EF4 tornado struck. Not only the clothes will become damaged, dirty and unrepairable, and you don't care, if the T-shirt cost 50 Kč, but you do care, if it cost 500 Kč, and there is also symbolic level - when the repairs are done, you can get rid of those cheap things, because they helped you to cope with the disaster and when everything is fine again, you don't want to have anything to remind you, what you have been through.
I don't know, if your plan is to make only one episode per "phenomenon", but political correctness, racism, BLM, MeToo ... they need, in my opinion, some prequel episodes, which should dig deep into American history, because many of those things, mentioned above, seem crazy to the Czechs.
We love justice and common sense, and to us, it seems that many times the american approach is lacking those. On the other hand, if you are familiar enough with the Czechs' perspective on those topics (BLM, MeToo, racism, political correctness), you could create an extraordinary videos, covering the topics with the ambiguity and yet very informative!
Thanks Sir Mac! I'm glad you liked the first in the series, and thanks for the title, Eliška thought it was a great change. We'll see what current events present themselves, and what I feel brave enough to talk about in front of a few thousand people.😳
@@DreamPrague Tornádo na Moravě....
@@jitunacervena567 To mi nepřijde jako kontroverzní téma, které je potřeba uchopit z mnoha úhlů. To je spíš smutná, jednostranná, jednotvárná realita.
Fast fashion is bad but on the other hand I hate clothes shopping and I know that If I will go to primark I will get whatever I need and dont have to visit 10 other shops thats the only reason I would visit primark.
We had slow fashion here all this time, before the West invented it, lol 😂 Children would “inherit” clothes not only from their older brothers and sisters but sometimes from their parents. And if it wasn’t in at that time, each Mum, Aunt or Grandma would pull out their sewing machine and make it trendy again. I don’t understand the queues but I understand that people want to try fast fashion bacause they only knew the slowest fashion in the world.
Naštěstí Češi stojí delší fronty na různé památky, například otevření muzea, Dalimilova kronika...
Na korunovační klenoty
If the fast fashion only was the worst thing imported from the West. I am afraid the 'mondern' left/neomarxist ideas of a society hating itself and embracing every mad idea is much worse. But most Czechs are still not aware of the actual reality of the current West, not the one we wanted to live in 30 years ago.
Dobrý pokus o reklamu, ale tady nějaký Primark momentálně nikoho nezajímá nebo žiju asi v jiném Česku.
Good video, I like how you speaking about fast fashion and sustainability. I am on the same wave, most of my clothes is from charity shop and I am proud of it, because that way we saving environment. I kind of like the minimalist way of living, people don’t need more than two pairs of jeans and couple T-shirts, atc. I hope your video will come across loads of women (sometimes man too) who buying unnecessary clothes and make them understand what is behind their fast fashion. Btw. On UA-cam was a great documentary about intoxicated Indonesian rivers from the clothes factories around, but soon after UA-cam deleted it. Maybe it was revealing too much?
Just the narrative of this video alone constitutes a beautiful essay.
I like Primark have some good stuff from there that lasted for years for me. Ofc a person has to pick and choose. Most of it is low quality. I mean I would definitely not stand in a long queue because of that. That's just ridiculous but different people different hobbies I guess :) and that's why I'll visit Primark on Monday morning so I've got the least probability of queue.
If you can wear something from Primark for years, then you're at least saving some landfills!
Hodně úspěchů s novým pořadem! :-)
Hi Jen. Nice as always. But you are missing one big point: the quality of all big brands selling their goods in Czechia is as low as "fast fashion".
Example1: When i bought original Levis jeans, after two years i can only wear them to walk my dog. Then i bought jeans in Primark in Dresden and after 4 years they are stil quite ok.
Example2: When i bought Martens boots, few years ago, after on year i had to throw them away cause there were holes in leather and sole. Friend who baught Martens 20 years ago, still have them and in quite good condition.
Example3: My mother bought jeans in 70s. Then my older sister was wearing them. And on high school i was wearing them, ofcourse not the same condition as new, but the fabric was still holding together afer 30 years.
Qaulity of fashion in Czechia is mostly sh..ty, so why pay 3 times the price.
I couldnt care less about this type of consumerism. From my perspective it is mostly teenagers and other young people who are interested in this type of shops. I ended up in the London primark when I was on a school trip in England. My friends just took me there. I didnt know about this shop before. I bought two t shirts, one of which was pollymer and horrible and I wasnt amazed by it. To this day I was more amazed by the fact that Brits have a bullet which killed admiral Nelson on display in Windsor castle :D
very interesting video, jen. i agree that czechs should be more conscious while buying clothes. i think young people like me are trying to shop more sustainably, though. and all movements come here quite a lot later than the US. additionally, imo the situation here is different from the west. in the us, there are huge thrift stores where you can find anything really cheap. as far as i know, we don't really have that here. if a secondhand store is cheap, it also has only really ugly clothes. if it has better clothes, it tends to be expensive. there are some second hand stores (i think some of them are owned by foreigners) that sell clothes for more than at like, zara, which is one of the more pricy fast fashion stores. and as you said, clothes are pretty expensive here!! personally, i'm just kinda tired to be getting the shorter end of the stick when it comes to consumer products - they're more expensive and lower quality here. and yes, i really don't want to add to the suffering of the ppl who make these clothes, but i understand that people would rather buy nice shorts in a fast fashion store for like 300 Kč than in a secondhand store for 900 Kč. It sounds ridiculous, but some of the stores really have these prices. Plus you have to search for hours to find something nice. I guess what I'm trying to say is: you are right, but shopping sustainably is more difficult here. But we still should try. I like the saying that it's better if a lot of people try and aren't perfect at shopping sustainably than it would be if just a small number of ppl were perfect at it. that's why i try to get my stuff secondhand on vinted, but i also sometimes shop at fast fashion stores. i try to buy clothes that i will really wear and love for a long time.
(Also many of us grew up only being able to afford secondhand clothes so I think ppl are compensating for that. But yeah, primark is reeaaally low quality, don't shop there.)
Great video Jen. Queues, lines, and waiting for hours on end "Oh My'. Have we already forgotten the recent Covid zombie apocalypse? Here on the west of America we had to wait in line for everything! 45 minute line to get into the grocery store. No thank you. I have to agree with you on this one though. Support your local merchant. They will thank you later. Yes it may cost more, and yes it may not be "trendy", but I bet it will avoid the trash landfill much longer. Like Mom always said "You get what you pay for.."
However if you have a copious amount of free time and are just curious... Pack a lunch and stay for the day..
To je jako kdyby tu byl každý na větvi z vietnamských krámků, kde koupí totéž!
Haha 👍 👍 👍
Primark neprodává padělané značkové zboží jako rákosníci kde může nakupovat pouze jedině velký inteligent
Mohu mít schůzku s videem české dámy, prosím? Jsem z Velké Británie a v současné době se učím jazykový hardcore v rámci přípravy na svoji imigraci do České republiky. Díky předem.
There was a big line and a lot of curious people for clothes. There was also a mock-up of Cana Yamana with his fashion model he was waiting for inside. Even though she has so many fans in our contry, the reporter asked if they liked them, and celebrities also said that he was a dozen and that it was according to taste. I wasn't standing there either.
Podle mě to nemá nic společného s fascinaci západem - myslím ze od 90. let už nikoho "západ" nevzrušuje. V novém Primarku jsem se byla podívat ze zvědavosti a vždy jsem v něm (v Německu, Rakousku, Italii) nakupovala obyčejná trička nebo naopak něco extra, co jsem věděla že za rok už nosit nebudu, a tak mi nebude líto to vyhodit. Minimalismus není můj šálek čaje, každý den ráda nosím něco úplně jiného a v létě se převlékám 2x-3x denně. Co se týče Primarku v Praze, moc se mi nelíbí a raději si zase občas zajedu do Drážďan na výlet.
Based and spot on.
i think it is not about low price, that T-shirt for 50kč you can get at local vietnamese store for 20kč to 30kč
Hi Jen, I'm Czech, I don't know Primark, I only know the name and I'm travelling. I have my own clothes, my own things that I prefer. Why do people stand outside the store? Because it's a certain group of people. You don't sleep in front of the store to get a new cellphone (apple) :) Mam hodne pratel a nikdo toto nedela. Neznam tyto lidi, kteri stoji pred obchodem. Je to asi ucita skupina, kteri resi prilis modu a navic mene bonitni.
Docela dobře položené otázky uměl bych odpovědět asi takto. Mnoho mích spoluobčanů má zažíto tvrzení, že levně nakoupit znamená ušetřit. Ono je to vlastně napůl pravda ale na co se u nás zapomíná na fakt že levný neznamená vždy kvalitní. Já rád používám rčení, že nejsem tak bohatý abych kupoval levný produkt. Vždy když potřebuji kupovat něco z dražších produktů, nebo servisovat auto vždy koukám na poměr cena - užitná vlastnost. Nikdy jsem se nezúčastnil a nikdy nepochopím tato davová šílenství, ale když jsem se učil na obor prodavač tak jsem to zažil z druhé strany a naší mistrové (člověk který dohlíží na praktickou část výuky) jsem odmítl pokračovat ten den v praktikách.
I have few thoughts to say here. For introduction, I am one of the biggest idtols of "why fashion" - hardly ever I am concerned with anything else than the utility of the clothes.
I am not really sure what to call fast or slow fashion, how long should clothes last to get the label of being "slow". Most of my clothes origin in H&M, C&A, M&S and similar stores, combined with outdoorsy clothes from Intersport, Sportisimo, Decathlon. Most of these last for many years and currently I even can't think of anything I had to throw away. (Mabye some socks and boxers)
Therefore I have no complaints about the quality and I have no reason to buy any other, more expensive stuff that might be called "slow fashion" when these are already slow enough.
I think many people went there because they already heard from friends that Primark is "the best" and didn't have a chance to go abroad. Cheap stuff made from cheap materials (just a crap).
Když jsem o té šílené frontě slyšela, byla jsem hezky schovaná doma před horkem a klepala si na čelo. :)
Hello Jenn, firs MCD was opened in Vodičkova street, not Lazarská. I was in the elementary school back then and we as a class won the prize in a contest which was a visit of that new MCD restaurant. The whole class was so excited but it was only a commented tour in the kitchen and facilities so then we were all so disappointed. But our teacher persuaded the manager to give us cheeseburgers at least so we were quite satisfied in the end.
Do této chvíle jsem netušil o existenci tohoto obchodu a i teď, když už jsem tedy o něm informován, nemám nejmenší chuť tam jet. Mám takový pocit, že tam stáli frontu zaplacení komparzisté, jelikož většina Čechů má nějaký další obchod s hadry na salámu. Tedy pokud tam nebudou zrovna nějaké 95% slevy v den otevření. To se tam pak nahrnou.