Letter: My local branch, Telford, has recently expanded to a massive and impressive store. The problem I have may be down to the Primark Buyer as staff and supervisors in store can’t answer my query.

When the population of children is roughly 50 per cent boys 50 per cent girls, why is the ratio for shoes 0 per cent for boys to 100 per cent for girls?

I’m extremely annoyed that I wasted parking fees to come to the shop, with 1000′s and 1000′s of square feet, none of which are allocated to boys shoes.

Toddlers and men are catered for, but no boys whatsoever.

We were pointed to the white girls’ canvas shoes as they seemed to be passable as a unisex option. The girls’ shoes however enjoys rack upon rack over several units and in a couple of locations. Why is it somebody at Primark thinks boys don’t need footwear?

I had to go elsewhere for my two sons’ holiday footwear.

A supervisor told me that the Telford branch wasn’t classed as a “high up”

store and branches like Manchester, Leeds or London probably had boys footwear.

I take it from this then that Primark believes Telford is a location to some freak of mother nature where mothers only give birth to daughters? I’d really like to know why this bias exists.

You’re not alone I’m afraid to say – many other shops favour girls over boys, but their ratios could be around 75 per cent /25 per cent to the girls, which is bad enough, but zero per cent for boys is unbelievable.

As nobody at Telford’s Primark could answer me, please could somebody give me a reasonable answer.

Tristan King

St Georges