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Ex Primark employee shares worst horror story from high street days

A former Primark employee has shared her most horrifying memory of working in a store in a post on social media.

Hold onto your hats (or underwear) and try not to gag at this one.

Birmingham Live reports that Georgia Ponton shared the grim changing room horror story that still 'haunts' her.

She revealed that people regularly swapped old bras for new ones in the fitting room - and not only that, but some smelt "really, really bad".

She said: "This happened surprisingly often in my section.

"I worked at Primark and there are some stories that still haunt me to this day and this is one of them.

"I worked in the bra section and one day I had to take out the bras that were in the fitting room and put them back on the shelves.

"I did my usual, I grabbed a chunk of bras from the fitting room and started putting them out, and as I was walking around I smelt something really, really bad."

She continued: "It smelt like stale cigarettes and I was getting worried in case someone complained and complained I wasn't doing my job properly, so I started trying to find what was making this smell.

"I'm still trying to put the bras back really quickly because I didn't want anyone to complain about the smell until I reached one of the bras in my hand that I had never seen before."

"Then it clicked," she said.

"I realised, this was the source of the smell.

"Someone had gone into the fitting rooms and switched their own bra out for one of Primark's and the fitting room people did not notice. Here was this bra that wasn't ours in my hand."

Georgia joked: "So please always wash your clothes because you don't know whether they're from Primark or not. I threw the bra away by the way."

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