Mary Queen Of Shops Episodes	Season 2
Back To Pazsaz Entertainment Network's Mary Queen Of Shops Page Blinkz Mary visits the wealthy town of Ascot. Its High Street is home to Blinkz, a shop that caters for the fuller-figured woman, owned by size 10 gym fanatic Amanda Collins. Mary is shocked to discover that Amanda's attitude to her plus-size customers leaves a lot to be desired. Blinkz is full of dowdy, baggy, unflattering clothes that most people, whatever their size, wouldn't be seen dead in. As a result nothing is selling and the business is in crisis. With 57% of British women over size 14, Mary is convinced that Amanda's plus-size shop should be making money. But unless she changes her attitude to her potential clientele she doesn't stand a chance. Floyds In Cardiff Mary encounters her most difficult challenge to date. Kelvin Evans is the owner of a boutique and bar called Floyds and he has very firm ideas about the retail business. The shop, run by his partner Sharon Hunt, is a fashion car crash selling cheap end of line clothes and tacky accessories. All the female inhabitants of the Welsh town seem to be giving Floyds a wide berth and Kelvin can't understand why. When Mary, not one to mince her words, attempts to explain why, the first of many heated exchanges takes place. She is convinced they should be targeting the fashion conscious 20-something crowd and asks them to have a go at styling Miss Wales and her friends for a night out. It's a disaster and the young girls end up looking more street walk than catwalk. Events come to a head and Mary decides she can no longer work with Kelvin. Will Sharon step up and start to take control and does she have the confidence and ability to turn Floyds around? H T Burt Burt's Men's Store in Chorlton has been in Adrian Burt's family for 112 years but under his leadership the store's takings are worse than they've ever been. Mary Portas is convinced that this store deserves a place on our high street but it's going to be a massive upheaval for the staff - one of whom has been working there for 33 years. She's got to bring the outdated Burt's team up to speed on 20 years of men's fashion. Mary pulls in help from GQ Editor Dylan Jones and forces Burt's to sell their dodgy '70s stock at the local bowls club. And she helps Adrian and his team with a new cool sales approach when she takes them to an Ian Brown concert at Brixton Academy to sell T-shirts! Will Burt's have the bottle to do as Mary says? Or has this third generation shop had its day? Rumplestiltskin Three years ago professional stylist Becky Eleazu realised her dream and opened Rumplestiltskin, a hip fashion boutique in an up and coming part of South London. When the store failed to attract the stylish locals required, however, she asked her partner, a personal trainer with no fashion experience, for help. He may have the gift of the gab, but when it comes to fashion Max is way out of his depth and now the shop looks like a youth club. Within days Mary discovers that the debts have been mounting and there is no money to buy in new stock. To save the boutique, Becky and Max try to convince French Connection to do business with them, Max gets sent to work at posh gents store Turnbull & Assor, and the couple get to direct a photo shoot for their own poster campaign. But can Mary do enough to convince the stylish people of South London to shop at Rumplestiltskin? Selkie Lucy Weller, a former theatre set designer, owns and runs Selkie, a ladies' fashion boutique in the centre of York. A fabulous building and a wonderful location haven't been enough to attract York's sophisticated forty-somethings over the threshold. When Mary visits for the first time, the reason why is crystal clear. Lucy's Halloween-themed window says second-hand shop rather than fashion emporium, and inside it's apparent that Lucy's forgotten she's selling fashion and instead has given pride of place to ironing boards and doll's houses. To show Lucy where she is going wrong, Mary takes her to 'The Shop' to meet the visionary behind one of the most individual independent fashion stores in the country and to Liberty, where Mary has convinced the department store's creative director to hold back her key window for Lucy to dress. However, even with the pick of the department store's top designer collections, the day ends in tears. Will Mary ever be able to turn this theatrical novice into a hard-nosed retailer? Homeboy And Ju-Ju Revisits Mary visits two shops she helped put on the right track in the last series - Brighton's Ju-Ju and Doncaster's Seen. Tim Price and Soly Daneshmand's Brighton-based fashion boutique had completely lost its way and was haemorrhaging money. Although it was a unique shop in a great location it had no customers, and the trendy student crowd who should have been shopping at Ju-Ju had deserted them. The 'fashion rebel' tribe is a difficult market to crack but, with Mary's guidance, Ju-Ju soon had them back through the door. But are they still coming? Did Tim and Soly follow her advice and strive to keep ahead of the fashion game? Mary also returns to Doncaster-based shop Homeboy, which she had renamed Seen as part of her strategy when she first visited last year. The shop had been struggling in the face of stiff competition from a new shopping centre that had opened in the town. But owner Cath Taylor had also lost sight of her customer and was not offering what the 'disciples of Beckham' tribe were after. Cath was a quick and eager learner who embraced Mary's ideas, but boyfriend Jock - who ran the upstairs men's fashion floor - took more convincing. Seen had a very successful relaunch but, once Mary had left, did the owners ignore her advice and revert back to their old habits?
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