"Actual carnage": Sample sale descends into chaos with huge queues and people ‘fighting’ over clothes

Fights reportedly broke out over boxes of clothing during a sample sale in Manchester at the weekend. Huge queues descended on Love Factory, just outside the city centre in the Green Quarter, for the event hosted by a fitness fashion label

Leggings, sweatshirts and exercise sets were slashed down to as little as £5, with some of their hoodies typically going for £62.99.

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Adanola is renowned for the clothing brand’s activewear that has been sported by some of the popular influencers such as Molly-Mae Hague.

People who took part in the queue shared videos to TikTok showing massive queues waiting outside to take part in the sample sale which began at 11am to 5pm Saturday, and 11am to 4pm Sunday.

In a video on TikTok captioned “The line better be worth it”, it showed hundreds of people queuing to ensure they got into the sale.

Antonia Duffin commented on the TikTok saying they had joined the queue hours before the sale had begun yet were left disappointed as stock flew off the shelves.

“We queued from 8:40am. There wasn’t any decent stuff that people wanted, like popular colour ways or styles etc. only cream leggings. No hoodies or ‘ada’”, she said.

Ellie McClean said "This is carnage omg”, while Chloe added, ”We got there, saw the queue and left.”

The queues were not even the most stressful part of the day as many people claimed there were people “fighting” and “pushing” to get their hands on boxes of clothes.

A TikTok user called ‘tnvjhn’ said there “reality of going to an Adanola sample sale in Manchester” is “people pushing, people fighting and people queueing for five hours.”

The footage, which has over 147k views, shows people