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FFS stay well clear of this god forsaken place
Went today on way back from Wales as missus wanted to get
her friend a Coach? handbag as one she ordered online was a fake
with made in Vietnam inside(turns out they are made in Vietnam FFS)
EXTORTIONATE prices of 300/400 for a bag loads etc
Then quickly went into a shop called Celine? and wifey says bit dear in here
and as we was walking out and women enquired about a price on a little zip bag
like what you used to put the crayons in at school and the girl without butting an eyelid
said thats £450. i was falling about laughing as i walked out never to return
Went today on way back from Wales as missus wanted to get
her friend a Coach? handbag as one she ordered online was a fake
with made in Vietnam inside(turns out they are made in Vietnam FFS)
EXTORTIONATE prices of 300/400 for a bag loads etc
Then quickly went into a shop called Celine? and wifey says bit dear in here
and as we was walking out and women enquired about a price on a little zip bag
like what you used to put the crayons in at school and the girl without butting an eyelid
said thats £450. i was falling about laughing as i walked out never to return
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Caters predominantly for the new-rich Chinese, who fly into Heathrow and it's 40 minutes up the M40, drop a couple of grand on some risible tat you or I could knock up for a fiver, then home in time for tea.
Place is jammed solid by 10.30 most weekends and it's a license to print money
Not yours, obviously
Place is jammed solid by 10.30 most weekends and it's a license to print money
Not yours, obviously
Supposed to be outlet shops which implies a discount, the only discount is on Bond Street prices
There was a very nasty incident there when a massive mirror fell on a 4 year old boy in a Hugo Boss shop :
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/04/hugo-boss-fined-over-austen-harrison-mirror-death
Hugo Boss, the luxury fashion company, has been fined £1.2m for health and safety breaches following the death of a four-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a 114kg (18 stone) changing-room mirror.
Austen Harrison was at a Hugo Boss pop-up store in the Bicester Village outlet centre in Oxfordshire with his parents Simon and Irina Harrison when the 2.1-metre (7ft) high unsecured mirror fell on him.
Oxford crown court heard Austen, from Crawley, West Sussex, was left with irreversible brain damage and died four days later.
Hugo Boss store at Bicester Village in Oxfordshire.
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Hugo Boss store at Bicester Village in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
Hugo Boss admitted offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Fining the company, the judge, Peter Ross, said “it would have been obvious to the untrained eye” that the mirror posed a risk, saying it was “nothing short of a miracle” that it had not fallen before.
Following the sentencing Kerry Jack, a representative of Austen’s mother – now Irina Glaser after she and Mr Harrison divorced – read a statement on her behalf.
She said: “Austen’s greatest pleasure in life was to help others. In his memory I invite you to help someone, no matter how small or large the deed, to assist Austen in creating a friendlier world. My love extends to each one of you for doing this.”
There had been numerous near misses with mirrors at other stores across the country, the judge said, adding that Hugo Boss had a corporate responsibility, and that he was sure the health and safety breach went to the top of the company.
Earlier this year, coroner Darren Salter described the incident as “an accident waiting to happen” and an inquest jury concluded the mirror should have been fixed to a reinforced wall.
Barry Berlin, prosecuting, said the company had been responsible for systemic failures in its health and safety checks at the store. He said Simon Harrison and Austen had gone into the changing area – where the three-way mirror was positioned – to try on a suit in June 2013.
Instructions for the mirror state it should be properly fixed to a reinforced wall. However, it was standing against a stud wall.
“Unknown to the Harrison family at that time and, it seems, unrecognised by anyone at Huge Boss, that mirror had not been fixed to the wall but had negligently been left free-standing without any fixings,” Berlin said. “While Simon Harrison was trying on the suit, Austen was moving the wings of the mirror.”
Berlin said contractors had hurried to convert the pop-up shop from a Burberry store that had been there previously.
The court heard that monthly health and safety checks were introduced in Hugo Boss stores by 2000, but these did not take place in the Bicester store. Steps have now been taken to enforce health and safety checks, with a specific review for mirrors in the company’s stores.
Representing Hugo Boss, Jonathan Laidlaw QC said the company had admitted a series of failings from the day of the incident.
“The consequence of this failing is as awful as one could reasonably imagine,” Laidlaw said. “Since the day of the accident, Hugo Boss has done all it can, first to acknowledge those failings, to express genuine, heartfelt remorse and also demonstrate a determination to put things right and ensure there cannot be a repeat of what went wrong.”
He said the company had met Austen’s family several times and settled a civil claim concerning the death.
At Austen’s inquest his father described hearing a bang. He said: “I heard someone gasp and saw a large mirror had fallen over. I instantly knew Austen was underneath it as it was not lying flat on the floor.”
Harrison added: “I can’t think of any reason why such a large mirror would not have been fixed to the wall. It would have been like trying to balance a domino piece.”
There was a very nasty incident there when a massive mirror fell on a 4 year old boy in a Hugo Boss shop :
.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/04/hugo-boss-fined-over-austen-harrison-mirror-death
Hugo Boss, the luxury fashion company, has been fined £1.2m for health and safety breaches following the death of a four-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a 114kg (18 stone) changing-room mirror.
Austen Harrison was at a Hugo Boss pop-up store in the Bicester Village outlet centre in Oxfordshire with his parents Simon and Irina Harrison when the 2.1-metre (7ft) high unsecured mirror fell on him.
Oxford crown court heard Austen, from Crawley, West Sussex, was left with irreversible brain damage and died four days later.
Hugo Boss store at Bicester Village in Oxfordshire.
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Hugo Boss store at Bicester Village in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
Hugo Boss admitted offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Fining the company, the judge, Peter Ross, said “it would have been obvious to the untrained eye” that the mirror posed a risk, saying it was “nothing short of a miracle” that it had not fallen before.
Following the sentencing Kerry Jack, a representative of Austen’s mother – now Irina Glaser after she and Mr Harrison divorced – read a statement on her behalf.
She said: “Austen’s greatest pleasure in life was to help others. In his memory I invite you to help someone, no matter how small or large the deed, to assist Austen in creating a friendlier world. My love extends to each one of you for doing this.”
There had been numerous near misses with mirrors at other stores across the country, the judge said, adding that Hugo Boss had a corporate responsibility, and that he was sure the health and safety breach went to the top of the company.
Earlier this year, coroner Darren Salter described the incident as “an accident waiting to happen” and an inquest jury concluded the mirror should have been fixed to a reinforced wall.
Barry Berlin, prosecuting, said the company had been responsible for systemic failures in its health and safety checks at the store. He said Simon Harrison and Austen had gone into the changing area – where the three-way mirror was positioned – to try on a suit in June 2013.
Instructions for the mirror state it should be properly fixed to a reinforced wall. However, it was standing against a stud wall.
“Unknown to the Harrison family at that time and, it seems, unrecognised by anyone at Huge Boss, that mirror had not been fixed to the wall but had negligently been left free-standing without any fixings,” Berlin said. “While Simon Harrison was trying on the suit, Austen was moving the wings of the mirror.”
Berlin said contractors had hurried to convert the pop-up shop from a Burberry store that had been there previously.
The court heard that monthly health and safety checks were introduced in Hugo Boss stores by 2000, but these did not take place in the Bicester store. Steps have now been taken to enforce health and safety checks, with a specific review for mirrors in the company’s stores.
Representing Hugo Boss, Jonathan Laidlaw QC said the company had admitted a series of failings from the day of the incident.
“The consequence of this failing is as awful as one could reasonably imagine,” Laidlaw said. “Since the day of the accident, Hugo Boss has done all it can, first to acknowledge those failings, to express genuine, heartfelt remorse and also demonstrate a determination to put things right and ensure there cannot be a repeat of what went wrong.”
He said the company had met Austen’s family several times and settled a civil claim concerning the death.
At Austen’s inquest his father described hearing a bang. He said: “I heard someone gasp and saw a large mirror had fallen over. I instantly knew Austen was underneath it as it was not lying flat on the floor.”
Harrison added: “I can’t think of any reason why such a large mirror would not have been fixed to the wall. It would have been like trying to balance a domino piece.”
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