>At the same time, M&S intends to open 104 additional Simply Food stores, as it shifts from larger shops selling clothing and homewares to more outlets selling groceries.
Not surprised. Was going to a wedding a few weeks ago and needed some formal wear bits and bobs so immediately went to the large M&S store in town as that was the sort of thing they were bound to have. Couldn’t find what I wanted!
Their clothes have got pretty crap to be honest.
My local one got rid of 99% of it’s homeware years ago.
Food is their speciality, I’m surprised they haven’t niched down sooner.
They could still sell their clothes and make up online.
its really funny, cos I just went to one in Queensgate Peterborough the other day. Clothing stuff all seemed normal, all non food stuff normal. Yet the space devoted to food was like a ghost town.
Half the freezer space has been shut for months. Meanwhile some of the display are taking up far more room than they needed to.
It looked like the food was holding the store back.
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However I agree that this is not typical of M&S stores elsewhere.
This is capitalism, once again, collapsing. Free fall. It’s time to change this.
Our town centre store closed a couple year ago and was replaced with a food store on one of the retail parks.I guess clothes and homeware stuff is easy to sell online.
Fucks sake. I actually love a wander and errand run in M&S.
The rule of thumb is that the way to tell if a shop is in trouble is by whether it has an escalator. If it has, it’s likely to be struggling.
Well yeah.. Half their customers died off during covid and the other half are going this winter when they can’t afford to turn the heating on.
M&S has been going out of business every year for the past 30 years.
I am genuinely surprised M&S hasnt gone bankrupt already.
Their shop on Oxford street is huge, and the only reason to go in there is for the peace and quiet. There is no music, and hardly any people, is a real oasis of calm from the storm of chaos outside!
plus their food shops are unreasonably overpriced, and the air con is always set to max, so its colder than the arctic’
M&S Foodhall has some decent stuff. Can’t beat Waitrose though
Maybe every M&S store doesn’t need to be 6 stories of old people clothes?
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>At the same time, M&S intends to open 104 additional Simply Food stores, as it shifts from larger shops selling clothing and homewares to more outlets selling groceries.
Not surprised. Was going to a wedding a few weeks ago and needed some formal wear bits and bobs so immediately went to the large M&S store in town as that was the sort of thing they were bound to have. Couldn’t find what I wanted!
Their clothes have got pretty crap to be honest.
My local one got rid of 99% of it’s homeware years ago.
Food is their speciality, I’m surprised they haven’t niched down sooner.
They could still sell their clothes and make up online.
its really funny, cos I just went to one in Queensgate Peterborough the other day. Clothing stuff all seemed normal, all non food stuff normal. Yet the space devoted to food was like a ghost town.
Half the freezer space has been shut for months. Meanwhile some of the display are taking up far more room than they needed to.
It looked like the food was holding the store back.
​
However I agree that this is not typical of M&S stores elsewhere.
This is capitalism, once again, collapsing. Free fall. It’s time to change this.
Our town centre store closed a couple year ago and was replaced with a food store on one of the retail parks.I guess clothes and homeware stuff is easy to sell online.
Fucks sake. I actually love a wander and errand run in M&S.
The rule of thumb is that the way to tell if a shop is in trouble is by whether it has an escalator. If it has, it’s likely to be struggling.
Well yeah.. Half their customers died off during covid and the other half are going this winter when they can’t afford to turn the heating on.
M&S has been going out of business every year for the past 30 years.
I am genuinely surprised M&S hasnt gone bankrupt already.
Their shop on Oxford street is huge, and the only reason to go in there is for the peace and quiet. There is no music, and hardly any people, is a real oasis of calm from the storm of chaos outside!
plus their food shops are unreasonably overpriced, and the air con is always set to max, so its colder than the arctic’
M&S Foodhall has some decent stuff. Can’t beat Waitrose though
Maybe every M&S store doesn’t need to be 6 stories of old people clothes?
They should have downsized their stores yeasr ago