Shoppers share their thoughts on Cabot Circus' House of Fraser Bristol closing - "It was just a matter of time" - video Dailymotion

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Cabot Circus’ House of Fraser is set close it’s doors in the coming days.  The shopping venue is due to close down following the news it will be replaced by a new M&S flagship store in 2025.  We visited Cabot Circus to ask shoppers' thoughts on the closure and received mixed opinions.

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00:00Cabot Circus House of Fraser is set to be closing in the next coming days.

00:05The shopping venue is due to close down following the news it will be replaced by a new M&S

00:10flagship store in 2025. We went to Cabot Circus to ask shoppers opinions on the news of the closure.

00:19I first found out, it was probably less than two weeks ago, it just came out of the blue.

00:24Utter shock, that's all I can say. Really, really sad because it's my favourite store.

00:35But I believe it was in the pipeline. I kept saying to my husband it's just a matter of time

00:43and then this one will close as well. Very sad, very emotional. It's a beautiful shop

00:50and there's a lot going on in there but obviously now you're closing down

00:53it's a sign of, you know, we're just joining the sales at the moment but it'd be quite emotional to

00:57go back up in there. That's all I can say, you know. Wish it wasn't closing down, that's for sure.

01:05I think it's going to be quite sad to lose such a big shop because we are not very spoiled for

01:09choices here so sometimes if you come from far, which I'm coming from like an hour away from here,

01:14for me it was quite comfortable and convenient to have many, many shops in one place.

01:20So we'll see if there's going to be anything better there. I'm not really bothered, I haven't

01:25been in there for a long, long time. It's somewhere where I would never have shopped anyway even

01:32in my younger days. It was on the high end of things and, you know, we were poor back in the

01:38day so it wasn't somewhere where I would have gone anyway so I don't think I have any memories of it.

01:45Quite sad really. It's the end of the department stores it feels like

01:51but it's a good time to buy clothes when they're closing down, a bit like when Debenhams went.

01:59I think M&S is coming next though. Something else is coming back and it was a shame when M&S left

02:07the Broadmead shopping centre so they're coming back so who knows how surprised it might come back

02:13again. So it's a bit of sadness and a bit of opportunity when there's not much money about to

02:21buy something.

Shoppers share their thoughts on Cabot Circus' House of Fraser Bristol closing - "It was just a matter of time"

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