Cardshops closing down

Juliepink26

Birthdays the card shop has been bought out by clinton cards and there stores are having closing down sales, my local store closed yesterday they were selling 5 cards for a pound, i stocked up big time! (Cards normaly priced at £2.99 or £3.99)
http://www.birthdays.co.uk/default.asp wanted to ring head office to find out when the other store will be closeing but will have to call 2 morrow morning. When i find out i will update this post

davsidipp

i think this is due to a new company called card factory which sells decent cards very cheap . i hope the same goes for clintons as they are so overpriced.

earthmother

Hope we don't loose ours

We have a Clintons and a Birthdays in town, and a Card Factory that opened up within eyesight of them last Christmas.

I've never found anything I wanted in the Card Factory, but Birthdays always comes through for me.

I'll have to keep an eye on them and stock up if they shut down.

C_Ronaldo

we had a bastins in my loacl town which was reasonable for cards but that closed down,

bugly_2

there is a thread on here somewhere for -cards for all occasions-. this looks to be a good place to buy. with a special intro offer it might be useful to you.

arnie&caseysma!

our birthdays closed last year just after xmas. they quite often had the 5 for a pound offer on so it is worthwhile just keeping an eye on the shops that are still open. I got loadsof stuff when it did close as they reduced the xmas stuff right down to about 25% of the marked price....

Alison_B

I love Card Factory, always get really nice cards and usually the most expensive one is 99p.

We had a shop like that called Card Warehouse, they sold cheap for a while, then they put their prices up big time.

firespire

Alison_B wrote:

I love Card Factory, always get really nice cards and usually the most expensive one is 99p.

We had a shop like that called Card Warehouse, they sold cheap for a while, then they put their prices up big time.

Not got a 'Card Factory' but we have a 'Card Warehouse' it seems reasonably priced (for now is it?).

Anyway if you have a 'Card Warehouse' or 'Card Fair' and are about to have a big purchase in there they have vouchers on their website.
http://www.greetingcardgroup.co.uk/vouchers.htm

firespire

I usually hate all the cards in Clintons, apart from Clintons own brand birthday cards I saw in ours in a special rack by the door, they seems to be only decent ones in the shop and were very reasonably priced around a pound.

If I want a good premium card I usually go to WH Smith and am pleased with the stock they have.

babylon85

Clintons took over Birthdays last year - they have been shipping their rubbish stock to Birthdays, and vice versa. Card Factory cards are 'okay' - but have to admit, they're better value than Clintons.