Zara

So happy Zara is in Providence now! I go to NYC regularly on business. I would go to the Bryant Park Zara. I spend so much in this store. Great stylish kids clothing. The prices are fair. My little niece loves the Zara clothing.

So I decide to check out this store since I heard they were coming to the Providence Place mall! So I went in on Opening day Wednesday October 29^th 2015! This store looks as if it straight out of New York City! It is brightly lit and all fixtures and floors are flawless! I was greeted immediately upon entering and assisted all through the store! Women’s in on 1 and to the left are escalators to go to the second floor where men’s is. But if you make a left at the top of the escalator you will head right into the kids dept! Great store if you are use to trim fit clothing. Zara sells clothing shoes and coats at really affordable prices and their clothes last long!

Full disclosure: I had no intention of going to Zara when I’d heard they’d opened, but on a recent trip to the mall to run a few errands, there it was: bright, shiny, big, new and surprisingly inviting. What lured me in was actually a gorgeous, chunky-​knit tunic sweater. What got me to stay was that it was $ 49. $ 49!
I’m not exactly what you’d call a bargain shopper. Sure, I love a good deal, but only if I’d be willing to pay full price for it, anyway. What’s nice about Zara is you feel like you’re in a cool European store that sells luxurious clothing, and then you go to pay for it and you spend ¼ of what you’d expect to.
This Zara is well-​lit, enormous and very organized which appeals to me greatly. However, it was very apparent that they have just opened. There must have been 30 people working there, and it seemed as if only one or two of them actually knew what they were doing. With all the greeters, stock-​checkers, cashiers and managers filling up that place, I was a tad surprised when it took a good 15 minutes for them to see if they had something in my size or not. It’s all good — call them growing pains and training opportunities, but it’s definitely something they should be working on and ironing out.
I was eyeing a few of their dresses on display and, while I didn’t have the time to try them on, they caught my interest and were very beautiful. And stylish. And probably really, really inexpensive. I guess you could say I’m now excited about Zara. Who knew?