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[freedom97] 11/6/2018 12:25

I think the idea of the £10 Gift cards is to attract business from other companies, as those that buy their sandwishes elsewhere, would be attracted to buy their sandwiches from M&S instead, to try and get a free £10 gift card. Then those with vouchers, will most likely end up buying more than £10 worth of goods, and hopefully if they haven't shopped in M&S for a long time, will be impressed with the stores now, so continue to shop there. Even if many new customers don't win a Gift card, then because they are already in the store, they may well look around at the rest of the store. You have to look at the full picture.

Hence a great deal for customers (if they win a gift card) & for M&S (if all goes to plan). Remember, also you might have to buy 5 or more packs of sandwiches to get free £10 voucher as they are in random packs.

I think an excellent move in the right direction. Well done BOD!

[loganair] 11/6/2018 11:31

There is something very wrong if a company is having to pay its customers to maintain being their customers.

I have written so many times to M&S saying in my view the way forward for M&S is for them to return to how the company was in the 1980's when it was the first retailer to make £1bln profit instead of trying to continually chase the latest trend which other retailers are far better at and have far more expertise then M&S have.

When it comes to clothing on-line I think is far less important then for other areas of retail. To my family clothing on-line we treat more like the old fashion catalogues, to see the designs then actually to into the shop to make the purchase.

Take my own family, my wife and I and our children do not buy any of our clothes on-line as we like to feel what they feel like before buying, we tend to buy holidays, flight tickets, small electrical items, cameras, books and toys/models on-line.

[philanderer] 11/6/2018 09:48

Morning all, maybe just trying to keep the customers they have ?

[ignoble] 11/6/2018 09:36

Fair comment ...was it thought through
One wonders. ..

[loganair] 11/6/2018 09:07

phil - How unimaginative of the directors of M&S. If one buys their sandwiches from Greggs or Costa Coffee etc I am confident in saying that these people will continue to keep buying their sandwiches from Greggs or Costa Coffee etc, therefore M&S are giving away money to people who already shop at M&S and would in all likelihood have spent their own money at M&S, instead will spend their free gift voucher.

[qantas] 11/6/2018 07:23

Shorters doomed to failure and poor old Odey.



Shorts closing.



Please do your own research.

[philanderer] 10/6/2018 23:28

Marks and Spencer to give away free £10 gift cards in thousands of packs of sandwiches from Monday

[diku] 10/6/2018 22:40

Ocado is worth more than Mks...

[boraki] 08/6/2018 21:01

Good News indeed

[knowing] 08/6/2018 19:19

He has as well.

[philanderer] 08/6/2018 18:39

Has Archie bought 35,000 @ 2.871p ? :-)

[ignoble] 08/6/2018 17:10

Absolutely
No customers
No Business

Need to hear customers views not the view of managers who will tell the bosses what they want to hear!

Imho

[avidacre] 08/6/2018 16:24

Big brass from mainland, were at Sprucefield today - ( their largest store in N.Ireland ).
They were talking to local managers. I would have thought the should have had some contact with local customers as they paraded around the store.

[qantas] 08/6/2018 15:22

Debenhams also to get a very rise in sales due some House of Frasers closing.

Please do your own research.

[philanderer] 08/6/2018 14:47

'Top 5 Vegan Supermarket Sandwiches For Snacking On-The-Go'

[knowing] 08/6/2018 14:26

Wrong thread

[philanderer] 08/6/2018 14:00

'Lord Stuart Rose, former M&S boss, blasts retailer’s decline'

[careful] 08/6/2018 13:08

MKS have the opportunity of a lifetime.
All of their weaker competitors are floundering.
Like war, who fired the first shot is not important,
It is who fired the last shot that matters.

[grahamite2] 08/6/2018 08:23

How nice to have a thread with the charts that matter and without thousands of charts that don't matter much!

[diku] 07/6/2018 22:04

More store closure in retail sector...how is all these space going to be filled in....turn them into matchbox residential apartments?...

[wskill] 07/6/2018 18:53

Just debs to go now m&s will be the only major left in the high street I am sure sales will improve now.

[philanderer] 07/6/2018 18:32

'M&S boss Rowe bags £1.1m after pay cut'

Steve Rowe's total pay fell more than 30% from 2017





'M&S bosses lose out on bonuses after a year of disappointing profits'

[philanderer] 07/6/2018 18:30

'They've done it again!' M&S sends shoppers wild with bejewelled kitten heels (and they’ve even got the seal of approval from Karl Lagerfeld)

[f1araway] 07/6/2018 15:43

And the Edinburgh flagship store too but probably the main reason for choosing that over others in Scotland is the site cost base. An iconic location and extremely expensive just to be there.