Claire's closes all 154 stores in UK and Ireland with loss of 1,300 jobs

What store will teenage girls steal from? That's the real question.

I got mine done at TJ Hughes’. There are menaces with a piercing gun everywhere

Anywhere that doesn't use guns. They're terrible and frankly should be outlawed. Needle-based piercing has far better results and leaves a much smaller hole.

Claire's pierced one of my ears at an angle when I was about 7 and I tried to let it close for 12 years so I could get a two piercings in that lobe. I know other people whose long pierced ears close after two weeks of not putting in earings. But no such luck for me.  At least it looks straight from the front. 

Yep, I was one of those girls. I had an audience because kids from my school wanted to watch the show. Thankfully the noise of the guns bothered me more than having metal forced through my ears. It wasn't really something I cared about, but mum wanted me to be a "real girl", so I had to have it done. I was eleven. I hated them. Mainly because every time I lost a stud, mum would rage at me. As I got older I just stopped wearing them because once you get a back kicked into the side of your head in karate, you don't want it to happen again. Mum had an absolute meltdown over it. She didn't care I kept forgetting to take them out before class (I have ADHD), she demanded I wear them to prove I was a girl. One night she literally tackled me and was trying to force them through my ears, then when she didn't get anywhere and I still refused to wear them, it was proof to her I was gay and I was kicked out. Wow, I haven't thought about that in a long time. It was utterly ridiculous and absolutely terrifying. I'm not gay. I just don't like earrings. Can't even wear them as an adult. They make my ears feel funny.

I was a teenaged dude & got my ears pierced at Claires LOL 😆

they are terrible though

Blue Banana I would bet

I didn't trust Claire's. I have done at least 9 pairs of earring-holes for my girls at this point at home. I'm good at wound care and we use the little kits you buy. So easy and c****.

Frozen peas and safety pins.

That's the crazy part, recently saw a bunch of their stuff on a clearance, and there were items that even at 70% off or whatever, it was still too expensive for what it is.

Everything at Claire's can be purchased for a fraction of the price on their own website. It's the weirdest business model

Assuming this includes corporate/non retail staff it sounds right. That's about 9 people per store and at least in the US there's almost never more than 2 retail staff per store at a given time. A staff of 4-6 for coverage is probably average with the extra being district managers, marketing, etc. That you'd never see.

if the stores have an average of say 7 employees that's still only 1078 workers, plenty left for a warehouse and administration. If 6 employees per store then 924. Can't imagine they had many people at each store, I don't remember seeing one that wasn't in a small unit, usually with 2 people on.

I'm sure you can find a DIY Youtube tutorial...

Ask an associate at the Home Depot to purchase a plainer and you can get 10% off.

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Would be so nice to have arcades back, light gun games are fun and fighting games are great when your opponent's standing right next to you. Outrun 2 was great too

It will never happen, but it would be so nice to have community space in walking distance. I mean, various hobby stuff, dancing lessons, warhammer, niche cinemas, some other things - where you can just hang out. The space is worth too much, but at same time those malls can be empty and not used, waiting to be demolished in order to turn them into another block of flats

in Austin they turned one into a community college campus.

They'll become parking lots, residential developments, or data centers

How about rundown abandoned space taken over by the homeless.

That happens in hub destinations and places with disposable income. Poorer areas don't have the money to support such businesses 

I thought I was gonna die on that table.

Mom its not real, its a JibJab

I’m in Canada and I went into a mall a couple months ago for the first time in a LONG time and I was shocked to see that Claire’s still existed lol

Likely found soon in a Poundland near you.

Private Equity is killing businesses

You okay hun?

It’s ok, the one remaining food stall and lone anime figurine/wallet/knive store will be happy to take their remaining business.

Wait... Did you not know what Claire's was? Was in every mall I grew up around in the US in the early 2000s. It's a US company.