Primark's long-awaited click-and-collect system launched on Monday, and promptly crashed due to over-demand. The budget retailer had only launched it as a trial in just 25 stores — and even then selling just children's products.
Despite that, the chain was swamped by thousands of bargain hunters flocking to the website to try it out, the Mirror reports.
Journalist Danielle Kate Wroe was one of them. She spent nearly three hours trying to buy something in an experience she compared to the rush to secure Peter Kay tickets when more than 200,000 fans spent their Sunday trying to secure a seat for his first tour in 12 years.
