# What is your opinion on this department store? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328 "2013-01-15T20:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/1 "2013-01-15T20:45:33Z")
Hey guys, I was wondering what are your impressions on the department store shown in this video clip? [House Of Fraser department store in Doncaster (formerly Binns) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05TAFhcUPiw) I did not make this video, one of my friends did, and it is a department store in the UK, and the video clip is mostly a stop motion timelapse type of video, but should still show what the department store looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/2 "2013-01-15T22:32:32Z")
Yep, that is a department store. It looks smaller than a typical American department store and doesn’t look to be very high-end but it fits the type. I don’t know what else to say about it other than that they seem to like having clearance sales. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/3 "2013-01-15T22:49:40Z")
Looks like a department store that sells lower end clothing in a building that could use some renovation. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/4 "2013-01-15T23:01:20Z")
An unremarkable small department store selling cheap/budget off-the-rack-clothing. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/5 "2013-01-15T23:24:16Z")
That is the most obnoxious music I think I’ve ever heard. Sorry I couldn’t comment on the video, as I couldn’t get through more than half a minute of it due to the “music”. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/6 "2013-01-15T23:26:58Z")
Yeah, I lasted through about twenty seconds of electro-cricket and closed the window. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/7 "2013-01-16T01:50:26Z")
I had the sound off, so I got most of the way through it. I was thinking “what is the fucking point of this video?” Then I turned the sound on in case there was something being said, but no, just that music. So yeah, what’s the point of the video, or the point of this thread? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/8 "2013-01-16T14:05:19Z")
First of all, it’s an “outlet” store, so not representative of the “actual” store. So for an outlet store, it’s rather typical, except for the lack of customers. What’s the point of the video and this thread? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/9 "2013-01-16T14:13:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > First of all, it’s an “outlet” store, so not representative of the “actual” store. So for an outlet store, it’s rather typical, except for the lack of customers. What’s the point of the video and this thread? Yes, I was rather puzzled at first as House of Fraser certainly isn’t a downmarket department store chain, but as it’s an outlet that explains all the special offer stuff and tired decor. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/10 "2013-01-16T14:21:03Z")
A department store is any story that sells a variety of goods instead of specializing in just one. A clothing store sells clothes. An appliance store sells appliances. A guitar store sells guitars. A hardware store sells hardware. A fishing supply store sells fishing tackle. A shoe store sells shoes. A department store (like [Rothman’s Department Store](http://northfork.patch.com/listings/rothmans-dept-store-inc-2)) sells all of these. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/11 "2013-01-16T14:31:44Z")
‘Binns’ used to be a grand name in department stores before House of Fraser took them over… ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/12 "2013-01-16T14:34:32Z")
The “stop motion” parts are more stop than motion, aren’t they? Anyway, I don’t know why I sat through the whole thing. I guess on the expectation that there would be some point to it. But it’s YouTube. I should know better. I’m not sure what is supposed to be “twilight zone” about it, as the description claims. The dingy basement? Must have been a very dull episode of the Twilight Zone. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/13 "2013-01-16T14:49:59Z")
It kind of makes me want to not shop there. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/14 "2013-01-16T15:53:39Z")
Sorry I turned it off once the shaky camera started. Are you just trying to drum up traffic for your friend’s terrible video or is there actually a point to this thread? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/15 "2013-01-16T16:06:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > A department store is any story that sells a variety of goods instead of specializing in just one. A clothing store sells clothes. An appliance store sells appliances. A guitar store sells guitars. A hardware store sells hardware. A fishing supply store sells fishing tackle. A shoe store sells shoes. > > A department store (like [Rothman’s Department Store](http://northfork.patch.com/listings/rothmans-dept-store-inc-2)) sells all of these. Has anybody contradicted this?? [House of Fraser](http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/) is a department store chain, the biggest in the UK. It’s a bit like Neiman Marcus. This video is of some outlet store of theirs, not one of their normal stores. ---
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/16 "2013-01-17T21:56:37Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Sorry I turned it off once the shaky camera started. > > Are you just trying to drum up traffic for your friend’s terrible video or is there actually a point to this thread? Yes, there is a point to this thread, sparking up a discussion about something, even if there is some negative criticisim. Furthermore, I am NOT trying to help my friend get more views, he knows ways to do that in other ways. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/17 "2013-01-17T22:05:33Z")
> [@compositejoe](#): > > Yes, there is a point to this thread, sparking up a discussion about something, even if there is some negative criticisim. Furthermore, I am NOT trying to help my friend get more views, he knows ways to do that in other ways. So, really, what _is_ the point? There’s not that much discussion to spark. It’s a fairly mundane amateur video showing a fairly mundane small clothing/department store, with an apparently objectionable, or at best mundane, soundtrack. And lots of crooked, jerky, blurry filming. No discussion required (or ensued.) And no apparent point. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-opinion-on-this-department-store/647328/18 "2013-01-17T22:11:47Z")
OK, my turn. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hEjsTB5huj4/hqdefault.jpg "The Most Boring Video On YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEjsTB5huj4)