Does anyone remeber c&a? (the shop)?!


Question: where did it go it was so good!?!?!?!


Answers: where did it go it was so good!?!?!?!

The only thing I remember about C & A is the old joke about their knickers.
They were labelled C & A so you would never put them on back to front.

Yes, i thought bhs bought them out???? maybe not....... read on


For many years C&A stores were also a major presence on high streets in the United Kingdom. However, the company's strategy of selling budget clothes from high-rent city centre stores made it vulnerable to a new breed of competitors operating in cheaper, out-of-town locations; these included Matalan and the rapidly expanding clothing operations of supermarket chains such as Tesco and ASDA, as well as expanding high street names such as H&M, Zara and Topshop.

In 2000, C&A announced its intention to withdraw from the British market and the last UK stores closed in 2001[1]. The company faces similar problems in mainland Europe, and has recently tried to reinvent itself, by improving the quality, and hence the cost, of its clothing in attempt to rid itself of its low-budget image. Ironically, the Primark chain has now become a major success in the UK using a retail formula similar to that which did not work for C&A. This is possibly due to the established image of the C&A brand, which had come to be regarded as reliable, but dull.

it is all over germany, netherlands ....

Yes I do, their clockwork range is still sold in additions direct catalogue

I've seen them abroad, some in the Canary Islands I know.

Always shopped at Charles & Arthurs.Sounded posher than C&A

Last time I went there was in..um.. 1998 in the uk.

primark is in our old c&a now.

They're here in Switzerland all right. In Italy too.

yeah, 'man at c&a' lol!

Yeah I remember it!
Their ski range was always fab value and I think you can still get it somewhere. We saw C and A in Prague but didn't bother going in!
When I was a little girl my Grandad told me it stood for "Coats & 'Ats" !!!

Yes...C = cheap and A = Aaargggh

my mom use to buy my school gear from there..kids at school use to take the piss outta me for it....till i thumped them..lol

I remember in the 60s there was one in Oxford st London and we loved to go there ,but over the years they branched out, and we had one in our home town so it wasent such a thrill , ours still lies empty



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