Marks & Spencer, an iconic feature on most British High Streets, is, like many bricks and mortar stores, in failing health with scores of stores being closed in last few years - reasons being their store offerings are out of touch with the younger generation, and their older patrons dying off.

To me Marks and Sparks was a place I loved to go to get quick snacks to take out but for Brits the NYTimes article says that 30% of Brits go there to buy knickers (specially made for them by Underworld Knicker factory in Weatherfield!) and most British gals are fitted for their first bras there! But again younger folks are going elsewhere for these essentials and online competition as usual takes a bit too.

Anyway an interesting article of interest to anyone traveling to Britain - pop into a Marks & Sparks while you can!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/b...ded-glory.html
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M&S has been dying for most of my life P. It can't choose what it wants to be and Next has eaten its lunch while Amazon nibbles up the rest. New CEOs just play musical chairs and take their pay until they can get a proper job. M&S doesn't play hard ball with its landlords so will never to very well.

UK high street is dead. End of. But who would have predicted it?

M&S Bluewater, in fact all of Bluewater, was heaving when we were there in September. The car parks were full, the shops were full and the lines for the tills were huge. If we hadn't had to get funerla clothes we would have avoided the place like the plague, but it seemed the easiest option for us.

Last year we got caught up in that other retail hell of the south east - Lakeside. That too was heaving and total chaos. It took us nearly an hour just to find our way out of that so we could contiinnue our journey.