damian

The HIP Store is closing In another blow for the British High Street, the decision has been made to sunset the retailer as the JD Group will now look to focus purely on size? and Footpatrol Staff have been told, with the inevitable job losses, and my thoughts go out to them as hopefully they are not out of work long 🤞🏻🤞🏻 The store in Manchester is set to stay open for a spell, and they will continue to trade online for the foreseeable. They are not entering administration, so in the years to come, who knows, maybe HIP will return to the High Street When I was 15, I started an apprenticeship. Princely sum of £62.47 every week. I saved up for about 3 months, and I went to the HIP store in Leeds in 2005 and bought myself my first ever Stone Island jacket. I saw a pair of Gazelle on the shelf in there, I then saved up for a fortnight to come back and buy them. My first ever purchases of clobber were because of HIP In recent years, they have been at the forefront of the adidas Spezial launches. I have spent, time combined, over a week of my life outside the store in Leeds, and now there will be even fewer stores to queue at and buy Spezial FCFS, that's a punch in the gut to the community I always thought of it as an institution, especially here in West Yorkshire Let it be known, that the Leeds store has had the greatest retail store manager to ever live, Robin is a legend A sad day 😔