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M&S stores closing

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

9 stores across the UK closing.

Good or bad thing?

Thoughts...

I personally think it's a good thing, as people are shopping on line more these days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its a bad thing for the people who work there .round here M&S is were pretend posh people do their grocery shopping . You can see them in Aldi filling M&S bags ,,makes me chuckle .

Personally M&S isn't my go to place for clothes or anything lol

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Idont think it's a good thing, people bei g made redundant and another household name leaving g the high Street.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

They are being offered jobs in near by M&S

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

It depends what sort of stores. They branched out to having food only outlets, which are usually busy. The larger stores carry a better range. The small/mid-size stores usually have a very limited range but the food sections are busy.

( stores sounds reasonable across their estate.

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

If they're not making profits then they need to go,makes good business sense

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Idont think it's a good thing, people bei g made redundant and another household name leaving g the high Street."

5 of them are the outlet stores.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"It depends what sort of stores. They branched out to having food only outlets, which are usually busy. The larger stores carry a better range. The small/mid-size stores usually have a very limited range but the food sections are busy.

( stores sounds reasonable across their estate.

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3 traditional food and clothing shops, one simply food store and five outlet stores that sell end of season clothing.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Its a bad thing for the people who work there .round here M&S is were pretend posh people do their grocery shopping . You can see them in Aldi filling M&S bags ,,makes me chuckle .

Personally M&S isn't my go to place for clothes or anything lol "

that's me confused then, shop in pretty much most stores but wouldn't think for a millisecond that one is 'posh'..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends on why & which stores they are closing really.

If they were over optimistic in the 1st place about the demegraphic of the area then it was probably always on the cards.

Not good for the people that work there tho.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I love M&S foodhall, love, love, love it.

but I also go to Asda, keeps me grounded

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"It depends what sort of stores. They branched out to having food only outlets, which are usually busy. The larger stores carry a better range. The small/mid-size stores usually have a very limited range but the food sections are busy.

( stores sounds reasonable across their estate.

3 traditional food and clothing shops, one simply food store and five outlet stores that sell end of season clothing. "

I'd forgotten about the outlet stores. They need to go as they do them so badly that it must affect their brand.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I love M&S foodhall, love, love, love it.

but I also go to Asda, keeps me grounded"

I have become a little addicted to the their two beetroot salads. Two for £3.

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

I feel sorry for those who work there, but this is tempered by the fact that the profits from M&S go mainly to Philip Green who takes them out of the country without contributing any taxes on that income (due to clever accounts in the name of his wife). So, on balance, I'm inclined to see M&S closing as a good thing in the hope that it might be replaced by something a little less parasitic.

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

I used to manage an M&S food Hall in a previous life

I still adore all their food,I ate my way round every dept

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Their Lemon Curd is fantastic

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"9 stores across the UK closing.

Good or bad thing?

Thoughts...

I personally think it's a good thing, as people are shopping on line more these days. "

Won't affect me, I've never shopped in M and S for anything. Not likely to anytime in the future either.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Nine stores? Not that newsworthy given how many jobs others are dropping.

Plus I know of at least one simply food store opening.

Not much consolation to those affected, I know.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Their Lemon Curd is fantastic"

We bought some yesterday to go in a gift basket. You can't beat food gifts for people living abroad from M&S. (Waitrose for those living here.)

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"Their Lemon Curd is fantastic

We bought some yesterday to go in a gift basket. You can't beat food gifts for people living abroad from M&S. (Waitrose for those living here.)"

it is really good

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular


"I feel sorry for those who work there, but this is tempered by the fact that the profits from M&S go mainly to Philip Green who takes them out of the country without contributing any taxes on that income (due to clever accounts in the name of his wife). So, on balance, I'm inclined to see M&S closing as a good thing in the hope that it might be replaced by something a little less parasitic."

What does Phillip Green have to do with it?

C...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do like popping to the food hall and getting some lovely bits.

Luckily there are quite a few round here but a shame for the staff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I noted that one of them wasn't the Champs-Élysées store!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not just any store closure.

Its an M&S store closure.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

they closed the store in Grantham a few years back..... think its now re-opened as M&S food outlet and think (seem to remember) they offered the jobs to the employees who were there when it closed.

Feel free to correct me if wrong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just announced M&S too close "Dozens" of its shops..

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