Mary Portas, Queen of the High Street - Londons Roman Road Television Watcher 2014-07-17 | Mary is at Roman Road in London's East End. Despite investment pouring into the area for the Olympics, the shops of the Roman Road market are not reaping the benefits. Thanks to Channel 4 for this excellent series. All rights go to them, etc.
Mary Portas, Queen of the High Street - Liskeard, Cornwall Television Watcher 2024-02-14 | Mary is in Liskeard in Cornwall, which is a market town, 20 miles inland from Plymouth. The 2001 the foot and mouth crisis devastated cattle farming in the UK, and the region's cattle market was permanently affected.
Mary Portas, Queen of the High Street - Margate Television Watcher 2024-02-05 | The seaside town Margate is the focus this week. They received a £100,000 government grant to help the town's high street, which has suffered terribly in recent years with one in four shops closing down.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | High Street Fashion Television Watcher 2024-01-18 | Mary's mission is to transform fast fashion chain Pilot's worst-performing store into a haven for shoppers, and to then challenge MD Chris George to roll out her ideas throughout the rest of his empire.
Mary Portas, Queen of Charity Shops | Revisited Television Watcher 2024-01-14 | A year ago, Mary Portas took on a seemingly impossible challenge: dragging the humble, forgotten, unloved charity shop into the 21st century. After five long months of toil and tears, she'd achieved a remarkable, lasting transformation, overhauling dismal donations and shocking stock and reinventing their dowdy stores.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Phone Shops Television Watcher 2024-01-10 | Mary's secret cameras reveal the infuriating world of mobile phone stores to be one of the least user-friendly retail environments on the high street.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Furniture Stores Television Watcher 2024-01-05 | Mary Portas goes undercover in the world of sofa superstores, revealing an industry that puts commission, not shoppers, first.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Estate Agents Television Watcher 2024-01-02 | Mary plans to start a revolution in the world of estate agents. Buying a house is the most important purchase of one's life, but Mary thinks estate agents have been letting us down.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Ju-Ju | Unisex fashion shop losing £1000 a week! Television Watcher 2023-12-19 | Ju-Ju, a unisex fashion store run by fortysomethings Soly and Tim, have been fronting their distinctively-designed business in Brighton’s famous Laines area for more than a decade, and it’s started to show. The shop is dated, the stock is down-market, and they’ve been deserted in favour of new, low-budget retail competitors and as a result, they’re haemorrhaging £1000 every week. They’re surrounded by potential customers, ‘fashion rebels’ - distinctive dressers with money to burn - but instead only offer cheap student garb to a dwindling clientele.Enter Mary, who prescribes an instant fix of cool for her unfashionable duo via a whirlwind tour of the latest hip collections and cutting edge designers. It’s an opportunity for them to inject some happening fashion sense onto their lacklustre shop floor. But with only five weeks in which to execute a complete reversal of fortune, she’s not sure Soly and Tim are up to the task. Can they cope with Mary’s extreme medicine, or will they retreat back from the challenge into what Mary’s dubbed their schizophrenic insecurity?
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Rumplestiltskin | Failing shop looks like a youth club Television Watcher 2023-11-20 | Three years ago professional stylist Becky Eleazu realised her dream and opened Rumplestiltskin, a hip fashion boutique in an up and coming part of South London but when her boutique failed to attract the stylish locals she asked her partner Max, a personal trainer with no fashion experience, for help. Max has the gift of the gab but when it comes to fashion he's way out of his depth. The shop looks like a youth club and the clothes are way too "street" for the young professionals Becky wants to attract. Right now those shoppers are getting their fashion fix in London's West End and to get them to shop local is going to take a miracle - or some magic - from Mary. But this isn't going to be easy as within days Mary finds out the debts have been mounting and there's no money to buy in new stock. Becky and Max have to convince French Connection to do business with them, Max gets sent to work at posh gents store Turnbull & Assor and the couple get to direct a photo shoot for their own poster campaign. But can Mary do enough to convince the stylish people of South London to shop at Rumplestiltskin?
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Godfreys Department Store | 37-year-old Godfreys store in Lowestoft Television Watcher 2022-08-07 | Mary heads to the Suffolk seaside town of Lowestoft to work with Godfreys, a huge family-run department store with a shocking overdraft and its future in doubt.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Gatehouse Cars | Will the owners undergo a culture change? Television Watcher 2022-06-20 | Mary's secret shoppers visit a struggling car dealership Gatehouse Cars in Aylesbury and discover that some of the salesmen swear in front of customers, smoke in the cars and ignore potential buyers.
Mary Portas, Silver Service | Episode 3 | Will Marys agency have been a success? Television Watcher 2022-03-29 | Retail expert Mary Portas sets up a pop-up employment agency for overlooked and under-represented old aged pensioners. Mary searches far and wide to recruit an army of old people cast aside by society but with much to offer. *Episode 3*
Mary Portas, Silver Service | Episode 2 | A new set of pensioner job interviews Television Watcher 2022-03-26 | Mary Portas opens an employment agency to put pensioners with great professional skills who've struggled with retirement, back into the work place we can benefit from their expertise. Episode 2.
Mary Portas, Silver Service | Episode 1 | Setting up an employment agency for OAPs Television Watcher 2022-03-23 | Retail expert Mary Portas sets up a pop-up employment agency for overlooked and under-represented old aged pensioners. Mary searches far and wide to recruit an army of old people cast aside by society but with much to offer. Episode 1.
Mary Portas, Queen of Charity Shops | Episode 3 Television Watcher 2022-03-18 | Mary Portas attempts to transform the humble charity shop from the poor relation on the high street into a real contender. Episode 3.
Mary Portas, Queen of Charity Shops | Episode 2 Television Watcher 2022-03-14 | Mary Portas is a woman on a mission to transform charity shops and bring them into the 21st century, overhauling the staff to bring in a new generation of volunteers.
Mary Portas, Queen of Charity Shops | Episode 1 Television Watcher 2022-03-08 | Mary Portas is a woman on a mission to transform charity shops and bring them into the 21st century, overhauling the staff to bring in a new generation of volunteers.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Diosa | Mum refusing to let go of investment? Television Watcher 2022-03-06 | Mary Portas heads to south-east London, and London Fashion Week, to help Gemma get her struggling clothes boutique Diosa back on track selling urban fashion to young women.
Mary Portas, Secret Shopper | Hallmark Foods | Out of date food risks the shop AND customer health! Television Watcher 2022-03-01 | Mary visits Hallmark Foods, a local convenience store near Slough that's losing money and customers, and she is shocked to see how some members of staff are behaving.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Comfort & Joy | Divorced couple try to make a joint boutique work Television Watcher 2022-02-24 | Mary Portas is in Islington, north London, trying to rescue a struggling fashion boutique, Comfort and Joy, run by divorcees Ruth Llewellyn and Anthony Wilson. The shop is barely making enough for the two owners to take home the minimum wage, but Mary is convinced they have what it takes to make it a huge success.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Homeboy | Mary & Menswear Manager Dont See Eye To Eye! Television Watcher 2022-02-20 | Mary Portas is in Doncaster to help turnaround Homeboy, a boutique trying to sell men's and women's wear to the party crowd. Owner, Cath Taylor, blames the arrival of a new shopping centre for the downturn in her fortunes. A new name, new labels and a new shop floor are all in the offing, but Cath's partner and menswear manager, Jock, is not convinced Mary has the answers and nearly blows the entire marketing plan.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Lightwater Homecare | Live animals in a DIY Store?! Television Watcher 2022-02-15 | In this last episode of the series, Mary takes on a hardware store that has seen profits plunge 60 per cent in the last three years alone, as people reject this local shop in favour of chain stores and big warehouse rivals. That's no surprise: owner Tony has lost sight of DIY as he's introduced greeting cards, party balloons, novelty calendars and even live pets.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Selkie | Ladies boutique or junk shop?! Television Watcher 2022-02-08 | Mary Portas comes to the aid a ladies' boutique in York fighting for survival as the owner struggles to attract York's sophisticated forty-somethings over the threshold.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Floyds | Heated exchange with owner Kelvin! Television Watcher 2022-02-02 | In Cardiff, Mary encounters her most difficult challenge to date. Kelvin Evans is the owner of a boutique and bar called Floyds - a fashion car-crash selling cheap end-of-line clothes and tacky accessories. Kelvin can't understand why the local ladies aren't shopping there. When Mary, not one to mince her words, attempts to explain why, the first of many heated exchanges takes place...
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Blinkz | Dealing with a sizeist shop owner?! Television Watcher 2022-01-31 | Retail guru Mary Portas is back to save the boutique. Blinkz is a shop for the fuller figured woman. But owner, Amanda Collins has a negative attitude to her clientele...
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | H T Burt | Mens fashion 20 years out of date! Television Watcher 2022-01-29 | Retail guru Mary Portas is back to save a fashion boutique. Mary attempts to bring the team at Burt's Men's Store in Chorlton up to speed on 20 years of men's fashion.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Maher and Sons | Marys biggest challenge yet?! Television Watcher 2016-09-24 | Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the nation's independent retailers. Times may be tough but Mary believes that small shopkeepers willing to adapt can still thrive. She takes on a struggling London bakery run by one of the feistiest shopkeepers yet, only to find she is not welcomed by matriarch Angela at the struggling bakery Maher and Sons.*Re-upload with some edits to hopefully avoid worldwide block. *Really wanted to watch this bakery episode again and couldn't find it ANYWHERE, so here it is. All credits go to the BBC for providing us this brilliant episode.
Mary, Queen of Shops | One One Seven | Boutique losing £100,000 per year Television Watcher 2015-06-22 | Sorry for audio at the beginning. Diane Lazzaris runs One One Seven, a Surrey boutique which made an annual loss of £100,000. Concerned that the shop appears to lack passion and flair, Mary takes Diane to a Chelsea boutique for some presentation inspiration before testing her styling skills during a magazine photoshoot. Can One One Seven be saved, or is its number truly up?
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Clealls of Corfe | Village shop losing £6000 a month! Television Watcher 2014-06-06 | Mary Portas meets a couple whose village shop in Dorset is losing almost 6000 pounds a month.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | John Peers | The hairdresser from hell?! Television Watcher 2014-06-06 | Mary takes on an 80s hairdressing legend whose business is facing the chop. She is in Rochdale, one of the cities worst hit during the recession, and on the edge of town is the once-great John Peers hair salon, now teetering on the edge of oblivion.John Peers used to set the trends, but he is now outshone by his former apprentices, who have set up around the corner and are winning the salon war. Mary believes John has still got what it takes and enlists the help of the fashion crowd when she takes him into Harper's Bazaar and then slashes John's prices to turn his salon into the hair equivalent of fast-value fashion. However, with debts of 40,000 pounds, it will take a lot of blow-drys to return John to his former glory.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Fosters | 115-year-old greengrocers in trouble? Television Watcher 2014-06-05 | Mary focuses upon the most endangered sector of all - greengrocers. She finds a store in Merseyside on its knees, and takes on three fiery sisters that are running it into the ground. Fosters has been open 115 years, but the sisters who recently bought it are clueless, prickly and think they know best. Half the UK's independent greengrocers have closed in the last decade, and Fosters looks set to go the same way without a complete overhaul.Mary has some big ideas to reinvent the store and the service it offers, but is met with scepticism and disagreement, and the sisters begin to fall out even amongst themselves. But unless they're willing to put in the commitment and hard work needed, it'll be impossible to rescue this sad little store.
Mary Portas, Queen of Shops | Under the Moon | Breast lamps and snail perfumes! Television Watcher 2014-06-05 | Mary Portas takes on a Kingston homeware shop living on borrowed time with 1970s stock. No infringement intended, all rights go to the BBC.
