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OVER 50 Primark locations across the UK are set to get a new service that will help shoppers dodge queues this festive season.

The budget fashion brand is rolling out click and collect to 54 new stores before the end of the year.

The service, which allows customers to order clothes online and pick them up in-store, was first introduced in November 2022.

There is no fee to use click and collect but you must spend a minimum of £10.

It means shoppers can avoid the disappointment of arriving in stores and not being able to find the product they were looking for.

Fashion-lovers can also skip the queues and choose the day you would like to collect their items.

Unlike traditional online shopping, you must come into a Primark store to pick up your items as they will not be delivered to your home.

It is currently only available across 57 of Primark’s 191 stores in the UK.

However, once the service is fully rolled out before the end of the year some 111 sites will have the feature.

The exact date that customers will be able to use the new click and collect service in stores has not yet been confirmed.

Primark has also increased the number of products customers can buy via click-and-collect to include men’s and homeware products.

This is in addition to women’s and children’s clothing which was first introduced as part of a trial.

Click and collect is not the only new feature which has been spotted in Primark stores.

The budget fashion and beauty brand has also introduced self-scanners at a handful of its locations.

Around 20 Primark stores have the feature which lets shoppers scan and bag items themselves.

However, the service is kept separate from the main tills.

It is also protected by a security door which only opens when you scan a receipt.

The fashion retailer has also set up cafes within ts stores, including a Shrek-themed diner.

A number of the retailer’s stores now have a Shrek Far Far Away Cafe themed on the green ogre.

Locations across Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh now feature the fairytale-themed food and drink spot.

However, if you are keen to check it out you will have to be quick because the collaboration is set to end this November.

How does Primark’s click and collect service work?

The service works very similar to online shopping, but instead of getting the items dropped off at your home, you pick them up in-store.

Primark has over 3,000 products available to shop via its website, including menswear and homeware.

To place an order select a click and collect store, choose the size of your items to add to your bag and head to the checkout.

You can also select a date you would like to visit the store to pick the item up.

Click and collect can be cheaper than a home delivery as many retailers do not charge a fee for the service.

It is always worth looking online to see if your retailer has the option, but make it is at a store which is close to you.

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A GORGEOUS deer with antlers can be the perfect addition to festive decorations.

So when Tia spotted a stylish silver deer ornament in her local B&M, she quickly picked it up to have a look.

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But she was taken aback as she examined the Christmas piece, which came with some cute woodland animals sitting on the deer’s back.

“That’s cute,” Tia’s mum could be heard saying.

As Tia added: “It’s really nice!”

As she turned it over, she quickly discovered that the ornament is actually pretty anatomically accurate – and most definitely a male.

“Oh dear me, big boy!” Tia’s mum hilariously added.

“B&M… WHY?!” Tia wrote over the top of her TikTok video.

“Such detail!” she added in the caption.

And people in the comments section were quick to admit the addition had left them in hysterics.

“I’m crying!” one person wrote.

“Next time we’re in b&m we NEEDD to find this,” another said, tagging two mates.

“I need it for decoration. It’s perfect

“I am purchasing this if I ever see it

“Oh DEER,” a third joked.

“Guess what I’m gonna be checking next time I’m going,” someone else admitted.

“I’m such a child!”

As others pointed out that it’s not the first time the reindeer has made it on to the B&M shelves.

“5 years in a row now this reindeer has been out!” one laughed.

“AGAIN?!” another said.

“This is the 3rd year I’ve seen b&m have these, someone needs a pay rise!”

While someone else who apparently works at B&M, tagged their friends and added: “The fact we have to put these out every year makes me laugh so much!”

It’s not the first time a B&M shopper has taken to social media to share their shock over the deer’s addition.

“So I was just in b&m & saw this stag. Thought it was pretty cute,” they wrote in the Facebook group B&M Stores Bargains and More.

“I go to find the barcode as it wasn’t round its neck where it usually is so thought it may be a stuck on 1 sumwhere…(sic)

“I turn it over & see that.”

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A WOMAN has revealed that she lives in a caravan and gets paid for it. 

Katie, who is from the UK and is known online as ‘The Caravan Mum’, confessed that not only does she get her pitch for free, but she also gets her electricity, water and WiFi for nothing too.

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The mother, who is based in West Wales and previously revealed that she hates the school holidays on a caravan park, took to social media to open up on her lifestyle, leaving many open-mouthed. 

Posting online, she said: “If you want to be able to live on a pitch for free whilst actually generating income – you don’t have to run a business, you don’t have to have a remote job, you can become a Campsite Warden.

“Basically, this is the person who is the security, who is the cleaner, who is the administrator, you sort of do a whole tangent of things.

“You are living on the site and you do all of the stuff that a site owner would do, but you get paid for that.

“And you’re getting your pitch for free, you’re getting your electric for free, you’re getting your water for free.

“You generally get WiFi for free, depending on whether it’s actually on the site or not, so that’s a lot of bills that are included, and you’re getting an income for that as well.”

Katie explained that despite this, the income is “not very good” and is generally minimum wage.

But regardless of this, Katie raved about the lifestyle and shared that although the money isn’t great, it’s worth it because of everything that you get included.

Not only this, but she also raved about the “transferable skills” involved with the job too. 

Katie explained that campsite warden jobs are generally given to retired people or those who are semi-retired.

As well as this, she shared that a lot of these jobs are also available for couples too. 

The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @thecaravanfamily, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as people flocked to the comments to share their thoughts on the unique job.

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One person said: “I would love that.” 

Another added: “I want to do this.”

A third commented: “I’d love that job and can bring plumbing and electrical skills too.”

Meanwhile, many were keen to know more about the job, as one user asked: “If you do these jobs can you live full time?”

In response, Katie explained: “Yes you’ll be there permanently – however they do tend to be temp contracts/seasonal contracts and you will still need a separate residential address for payslips.” 

At the same time, someone else questioned: “Where can I do that?”

To this, Katie confirmed: “UK Campsites is just one of them, just put campsite wardens into any search engine!” 

WALKING down the aisle, I knew deep in my heart I wasn’t marrying for love, but for money.

I cared for Andrew*, but it was his wealth I was passionate about, and the lifestyle it gave me, not him.

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Seven years on from that day, I’m a forty one year old divorcee, having learned the painful way that a truly happy relationship can never be built on another person’s bank balance.

Watching The Perfect Couple on Netflix this month, and the toxicity that is brewed when money is the motivating factor in a marriage, I felt relief to no longer be mired in a dynamic like that.

I grew up the only child of a single mother, and although we weren’t ‘poor’, Mum worked incredibly hard as a secretary just so we could get by. I suppose that’s where my craving to be well off came from. When you grow up without money, it’s easy to believe it’s the key to a happier life.

In 2015, when I was thirty-two, I met Andrew*.

I was working as an EA at a bank and he was a client of my boss. 

Ten years older than me, balding and with a bit of a belly, I wasn’t physically attracted to him, but he was charming, funny and when I looked at his files, I was stunned at how well off he was despite only being in his early forties. 

He’d taken over his family’s successful property development business, as well as investing in a portfolio of rental flats.

He’d come in for meetings – his Porsche parked outside, wearing a well-cut suit and a designer watch – and we’d flirt, until one day he asked me out.

On our second date, he presented me with a Chloe handbag and on our month anniversary he arranged a surprise weekend away to New York. 

Money was no object to him, and I was enthralled. I’d never experienced a lifestyle like this, and although he liked to talk about himself a lot, and our sex life wasn’t that satisfying, I told myself I didn’t care, he was rich, generous and wanted to be with me.

Within six months I’d moved into his luxury apartment, and on holiday in Dubai for our one year anniversary, he proposed with an enormous diamond ring.

He paid for our wedding in summer 2017 and whatever I wanted – from the celebrity florist to the fireworks display at the 5* venue, and my gown that cost thousands of pounds – I had it. I was like a kid in a candy shop, with his credit card.

I feel ashamed now I exchanged vows with Andrew knowing I wasn’t in love with him, but I was blinded by the excitement of being rich, and greedy for the life he could give me.

For the first few years, things were good. 

I gave up work within a year of us marrying – I hated my job and Andrew insisted he earned more than enough to support us.

I suppose I was a ‘trad wife’ long before it was a TikTok trend.

And I threw myself into supervising the renovations of a second home we – Andrew – had bought in the countryside, along with going to the gym, shopping and preparing meals for him. Gifts of expensive jewellery, ski holidays and designer clothes became my norm.

Friends would joke I’d become like one of ITV’s Rich Housewives, but I told myself they were just jealous, having married guys with ordinary jobs and modest bank balances. Sure, they were madly in love, but I had a lifestyle to die for.

There were days I felt aimless, bored and a bit embarrassed about being a ‘kept woman’ in my thirties, but I pushed those feelings aside.

It was the pandemic that would expose the shaky foundations my marriage was built on. 

Both stuck at home all day, with no lux holidays, shopping trips or spa breaks to enjoy, we only had each other’s company, and I began to realise that without all the distractions and excitement of his wealth, a lot of the time Andrew bored and irritated me.

Also, with his business interests under pressure because of the impact of lockdown, for the first time ever, he began to question items on the credit card bill or the cost of things I had delivered to the house. 

I felt humiliated when he told me my spending was out of control, and that I needed to rein it in and run big purchases past him. During one row, he said it was his money and I should be more grateful to him than I was.

It hit me he didn’t see me as his equal, because I contributed nothing. He had the money, and so he had the power in our relationship, and that was never going to change.

Once those cracks had appeared, I couldn’t ignore them or keep papering over them with his money.

Even when life began to return to normal, and he whisked us away to Portugal and insisted everything was fine now financially, I should just carry on as normal, the voice in my head kept growing louder that I’d made a mistake. 

In late 2021, I told Andrew I’d fallen for his wealth, and I had let him believe I loved him.

I’d married for the wrong reasons, I didn’t love this man and it was never going to be a marriage of equals. 

Even if I went back to work, financially there would always be a huge imbalance and having experienced that being used against me emotionally in the pandemic, I knew it would happen again.

In late 2021, I told Andrew I was leaving him. I admitted I’d fallen for his wealth, and the fault lay with me for letting him believe I loved him.

He was shocked, devastated, angry and begged me to reconsider, but I told him it was the best thing for both of us. 

We divorced in 2022 and all I asked for was the house in the countryside in the divorce settlement, so I had somewhere to live, although I would’ve been entitled to more. I wanted to start afresh, away from his money.

I went back to work as an EA and it felt good to be financially independent again, and today I live a very ordinary life, without all the expensive trappings I had during my marriage. Do I miss them? Sometimes. But am I happier? Definitely.

I’d love to meet someone else but it’s not easy dating as a divorcee, and I can hardly explain to guys that I married for money not love, and that’s why it all fell apart.

Perhaps one day I’ll meet someone and when I do, I have learned to be led by my heart, and not his bank balance.

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