February 2024 by Megan Downham
Love Clinton?s products always nice cards. However this store needs to either get some new staff or train them up more. Store was empty and I waited at least 2/3mins to be served while the only two staff were stood talking behind the till?? Lady in glasses was really rude and awful attitude for no reason at all, she asked if I wanted a bag and I initially said no as I thought she meant it was just for my cards. After I had paid I had a balloon blown up and changed my mind and asked for a bag, she just gave the worst attitude about it as if I had spat in her face or something. I just took my stuff and left. Probably won?t go back to that store if I can see she?s working.
September 2023 by Julie Home
Lovely cards always buy mine here ??????????
January 2023 by krisfk 1990
Always come here to get cards for different occasions. Everyone always loves the cards from here and I'm always happy with their quality.
January 2022 by Robbi Redford
Great service with loads of Christmas mum cards.
December 2021 by carole chan
Encountered an extremely rude member of staff today, totally ignored me when I spoke to her, I was thanking her for putting some wrapping paper back on the high display and apologising that I couldnt reach it myself.. just to be totally ignored... her attitude was disgraceful. I put my intended purchases down and walked out. Management need to train this girl in customer service.
August 2020 by Pete Matthews
Always a great choice of cards for any occasion and not very dear either
August 2020 by SHARON STERN
best place to buy cards for any event ! Relly nice store
February 2019 by Aaron S.
This branch of Clintons is on the Lower Floor of the Manchester Arndale, it is basically next to Lush and underneath Gap, opposite G-Star Raw. It is a fairly large store and is one of 360 branches the Clintons brand has in the UK, and one of 11 branches in just over 10 miles from this location which is quite an interesting statistic for a retailer specialising in novelty gifts and cards. Mainly when buying greetings cards, I use online retailers such as Funky Pigeon or use physical bricks and mortar stores such as Card Factory, who have two locations within a minute or two of this location on foot, also in the Manchester Arndale, I decided to visit Clintons to see how they stacked up - and sadly it didn't seem that they stacked up too well. The store has a slightly old-fashioned feel to it, yet there is a decent selection overall and the store is quite large however the prices seem to be much more expensive than other retailers such as Card Factory or buying cards from a supermarket, and some of the prices seem to be high enough that you'd associate them with personalised and bespoke cards, rather than pretty generic ones. The novelty gifts were scattered around the store, not in a specific area exactly in parts, prices seemed to go from average and competitive to slightly higher yet again. If you're in a rush and want to get a last minute basic card, this is a decent shout but if you have more time or you're looking to save some money on a card this probably isn't the place for you - I didn't find the quality of the cards to be too impressive to warrant the pricing, so these factors including overall feel of the store warrant just a two-star rating for Clintons at Manchester Arndale.
March 2016 by Andrew Y.
A large Clintons in Arndale Centre with lots of cards and gifts. If you visit during a busy time e.g. Christmas, just before Mothers Day, then there can sometimes be a big queue. I last visited a few days before Mothers Day. The queue was fairly big but not too bad. I have sometimes seen queues in Clintons (and similar card shops) where it goes all round the shop!
April 2010 by Coralia C.
Birthdays, special events, Valentines Day...you always find at least a greeting card that you'll like in there. You can find other present as well, but I never dare to buy fluffy things or balloons. I usually buy greeting cards. Well, I always found what I wanted. Now, expect to see lots of horrible stuff in there as well. Things you might believe no one will want to get that no matter what. Don't imagine you can get the first greeting card either. There are a lot of bad ones as well so you might need to spend a fair amount of time to find you're looking for. It's not always the best. The best thing is that you will see the cards arranged on categories so that you save you an extra search. Don't live the shopping until right next to the even. If you are in there just before Christmas or Valentine's day, you will lose a lot waiting at the queue.
March 2010 by Alfie B.
Cards. Birthday Cards. Greetings Cards. Christmas Cards. Red Cards. Yellow Cards. Whatever card you're after, you just can't beat a good funny card can you? (statement not applicable to condolences cards and with sympathy cards). Funny cards have sprung up in the past 10 years and have continued to boom and spread across the planet. Some of the best jokes are now out there, on cards. Yesterday I saw a thank you card with an onion on the front and the tagline 'Thanks Shallot'. Basically good cards are great. In Manchester, a place called Paperchase, just down the road from this here Clintons, the subject of this review, sells a plethora of great hilarious cards. If you want a card that is not good, then Clintons is the place for you. If the cards in Paperchase are just too good, and you need a rubbish card, then come along to Clintons! Cards with tabby cats on. Cards with flowers on. Cards with peter rabbit on. Cards with pictures of doilys on. Woeful cards your great great grandma would send your great grandmother in 1825. Clintons.
March 2010 by Sam R.
Pretty much the only good thing about Clinton Cards is that it's cheap and it sells cards. Aside from these two basic facts, it's a pretty uninspiring shop in almost every other way. When you walk in, you quickly realise that surrounding the masses of cards are tacky balloons, gifts, toys and general tat. Usually this junk is on the shelves, but often you'll see it floating around, in unruly piles or sometimes on the floor. Clinton Cards is always so messy and tatty. Then there's the customer service. I know working in Clinton Cards must suck a bit and it' not the kind of place you dream of working when you grow up. But hell, there's no need to take out your hatred of life on me, dear surly girl behind the counter. We've all worked crap jobs in our time but that doesn't give you license to be randomly rude to every poor sod who happens to walk into the place. The girl I'm talking about couldn't even look at me and was generally just blatantly offensive. Clinton Cards is rubbish. The end.
January 2010 by Rebecca D.
I remember, growing up in a small Northern market town, there was an independent card shop that, weirdly, sold a range of 'naughty' items. Like a provincial Ann Summers with a section for bereavement cards. It was really weird, looking back, that they had pink riding crops hanging alongside the Forever Friends mugs, but I guess it's just part of the charm of it having been an independent business. That shop serviced the town's needs for cards and second-rate erotic merchandise until the long-vacant Motor World shop got a make over. A Clinton Cards makeover. The local people were predictably outraged and the independent card shop decided to up their game. They painted the entire exterior of their little shop Pepto-Bismol pink and did mail-outs about the evil of Clinton Cards. It was all a bit mad really. Me, I wasn't that fussed as I was banned from the independent card shop at the age of 12 for unsuccessfully shoplifting a strawberry-scented gel pen, so I was glad that finally there would be a place where, if I so wished, I could buy cards without fear of being arrested. Of course, once I saw the homogenised crap that Clinton Cards sell, I was no more heartened. And a good ten years later, Clinton Cards is still totally rubbish. And their Arndale store is pretty much the worst place in the world. For a start, it is always messy. Not in a fun and kooky boutique kind of way, I like that kind of messy. It's messy in a way that seems to suggest that, gasp, Clinton Cards don't care about the shoppers and their experience. Thusly, instead of having wrapping paper, ribbons and gift tags all together while cards are over there somewhere, they seem to have organised everything into 'themes'. So you have your cutesy crap (Tatty Teddy etc), your tarty crap (wrapping paper with shoes on, and bits of diamante and feather boa on everything), your psychedelic crap (it's crap, and it's psychedelic...what more can I say?) and then, a very small corner for dad crap (any manly type stuff; brown paper and cards with labradors on them). Wandering round looking for plain crepe paper, I was struck by the ugliness and weirdness of all the Clinton crap. Witness; a card in the tarty crap section, depicting a pair of sexy legs in stilettos. Who am I gonna buy that ugly piece of crap for? A man who likes legs? No. A girl who...has legs? No. Useless. As well as being confusingly laid out and messy, this branch of Clinton Cards has some of the rudest staff I have ever experienced. But even if they treated me like a Maharajah, there's still no way I'm going back here. You need a card? Go to Paperchase or Oklahoma, or make one yourself. You need a wine-bottle-box with a bra on it? Come to Clinton Cards...
