Exclusive: Primark goes small with new format store

Primark has unveiled its first small format store, in Portugal, which looks set to be the first of many with a second store planned in Bolton. Stores expert John Ryan visits the pint-sized Primark.
At 50 most people would consider an individual to be ‘mature’. The same probably applies to retailers and with this sort of age comes both ‘wisdom’ and, occasionally, the perception of an unwillingness to change, much.  
Primark, which today posted surging full-year p