Shoppers react following the opening of the new Bargain Clearance Centre in Washington.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00I'm here at Bargain Clearance Store in Washington for their grand opening.
00:05As you can see we've already got large queues forming ahead of the doors opening.
00:11Thank you very much for coming.
00:13Who's the first person?
00:155 o'clock this morning.
00:19There you go mate. There's £100 in vouchers for you.
00:22Get yourself down, grab a bargain.
00:24Eh? Eh?
00:26I've got a box of cheese.
00:29Thank you very much.
00:31There you go.
00:34Want some cheese?
00:36Lovely, lovely.
00:40So what do you think of the new Bargain Clearance Store then?
00:42I think it's great. It's easy to get to. There's plenty of parking.
00:46There's things for everybody, young and old. I think it's going to be a big success.
00:50Did you used to go to the old store?
00:52I did. I used to go to the old one.
00:54The parking wasn't that good and there wasn't as many things to buy.
00:57So this is great. Good for the area.
00:59Have you got anything else to put your eye on as you're walking around?
01:02I'm just having a look for the first time round and then I'll do another loop and go back and pick some things up.
01:08Do you always get a bargain when you come here?
01:10Well it's the first time I've come here but the old place I have had bargains so that's great.
01:16Okay, so what do you make of the new store so far then?
01:18There's lots more room and there's some good bargains to be had.
01:22So what have you been getting yourself so far then?
01:24Some toothbrushes, £15, some Paul Washington surface cream.
01:32Did you used to go to the old store?
01:34Yeah, yeah.
01:35Is it better than that at the moment?
01:37Yeah, there's a lot more space, a lot more.
01:40Do you always get yourself a bargain when you come here?
01:42Every time.
01:45So what do you make of the new store then?
01:48The new store is better than the old store.
01:50You get a lot more bargains here now than what you did in the old store.
01:53There's a lot more products, a lot more to choose from.
01:56And what have you been buying so far then?
01:58I've been buying a lot of the Spanish products and stuff like that.
02:00I buy all the Spanish products.
02:01It's cheaper here to buy than anywhere else and they're really good products.
02:17Okay then Lee, what's it like to be opening a new store then?
02:19Yeah, it's absolutely brilliant.
02:21Glad we're all relieved, all the staff are relieved and everything.
02:24That we've got the store eventually opened.
02:26It's took a couple of months to get there but we're there eventually.
02:30And what sort of response have you had today in terms of customers coming through the door?
02:33Yeah, it's been absolutely brilliant.
02:34We've had queues out the door since we opened.
02:38There must be at least a few hundred customers in so far.
02:40I understand.
02:41One person has come through the door.
02:43Yes, yeah, the first guy who was here this morning.
02:45He's been waiting since 5 o'clock this morning for us to open.
02:48He won some vouchers I believe?
02:50Yes, we gave him £100 worth of in-store vouchers for being the first person through the door.