For Beth Searby, a Saturday as a teenager wasn't complete without going to Claire's with her friend.
But that tweenage rite of passage looks uncertain as the future of the chain hangs in the balance.
Beth and her friends would use their pocket money in the late noughties to buy magnetic earrings, badges and toe rings from the accessories brand.
"You never went home empty-handed," says Beth, now 30.
Shopping there was like an "analogue Temu," she says.
