Vandals have defaced Holloway Road’s Carpetright with white paint.
The shop’s employees arrived at work on Monday morning to find white paint splattered across the front of their shop.
Francis, one of the shop’s employees, said that when he came into work at 8:30 a.m. the paint was already there. He and his colleagues used brooms and water to clear some of the paint, but they could not remove all of it.
Another employee, Steve, said that acts like this were common in recent months: “We try to move people on who wish to sit on the shop steps but many do not cooperate… when we do have graffiti vandalism though, the council are very good about re-painting doors or cleaning up after an incident.”
Steve also showed concern for the impact this may have on Carpetright’s image: “We as employees aren’t personally affected by things like this, it’s more about the business’s reputation. Customers won’t want to come in and spend money if there’s paint or graffiti all up the walls.”
The paint has since been cleared, and the culprits are currently unknown.
