Marks And Spencer Share Discussion Threads

[netcurtains] 12/9/2021 10:12

Sunday Times full of articles about either UK Retailers being bought by US companies or how M&S is set to do well "thanks to someone called king?"
Very retailer-ish business section.

[debsdowner] 12/9/2021 09:53

Humpty MARKS wont be reaching £3.68 anytime soon it will take some time to reach £2.50 ,

MARKS contemplating closing its French stores says MAIL on Sunday:



With National Insurance rise competition within the food sector will hot up and affect retailers valuations.

On the plus side MARKS could become a bid target and prevent a fall in share price.

[xxxxxy] 12/9/2021 07:25

China.... Smart people stalking bargains in an undervalued market...

[xxxxxy] 12/9/2021 07:20

Regarding previous....Holly Willis12 Sep 2021 3:55AMThe woke CEOs would do better to pay attention to this than spending all their time on black history month and mixed families in their adverts..... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 12/9/2021 07:18

China boosts stake in UK with London shares spreeThe People's Bank of China now owns stakes in most of the FTSE 100, with a dramatic increase in exposure in recent weeksByRichard Evans11 September 2021 • 6:00pm.... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 12/9/2021 07:16

Store sales remain under pressure, down by a fifth on pre-pandemic levels in clothing and homewares. But online sales have held at a significantly higher level.Calvert noted that immediately before the pandemic, M&S had finally migrated its elderly IT systems on to a modern cloud-based platform. "That turned out to be great timing".She added that the mid-market segment in which M&S operates had also too: "Debenhams has gone, Arcadia has gone, Gap is going. There are good market share gains to go after and the market should be more stable again after years of discounting by distressed players.""We are in an upgrade cycle for the first time really since the Marc Bolland era," she concluded, referring to Rowe's predecessor..... FT... 20 August

[neilhumphreys] 11/9/2021 18:23

Chart is pretty well open now, the mm at Shore can move up when he’s ready to. Nothing in the way to £3.68 actually.

[netcurtains] 11/9/2021 16:26

This is going to be one hell of a Christmas!

M&S are going to blow the ruddy doors off!

BoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooM

[debsdowner] 11/9/2021 16:17

shoesize, socks are cheap at ALDI and also of good quality, but I bough a pair of slippers a couple of years ago from ALDO and poor sole and quality. You dont seem to be able to get good quality slippers with leather soles anymore, any suggestions?

As for consumers I thinke the econmy is getting worse now and because of the Insurance rise and inflation people will cut back on clothes.

The competition is fierce so I see a struggle for MARKS to head to £2 and if they breqch that level it will take time to get to £2.50 imo.

[netcurtains] 11/9/2021 16:09

shoesize19: you've lost so much money you cant even afford someone to copy and paste the tesco URL. Ha ha.

Who in their right mind is going to want to buy more expensive sainsburys (or "tesco") socks when they can get, not just any socks but M&S socks 15% cheaper.
Anyone who wears sainsburys socks is like having "mug" written all over them, Oh wait a minute tesco sell them with MUGs (see my preious link).

Shoesize19, not just any mug, but an M&S shorting mug. Ha ha.

[shoesize19] 11/9/2021 15:31

net curtains , your post today is incorrect about socks .
Tesco on line do sell socks .

Its back to peeping through your nets more .

try google , or stop posting here .

[netcurtains] 11/9/2021 07:58

shoesize19:
Tesco dont sell socks:

Sainsburys (TU) are £7.
M&S via Ocado are £6


As Debs said earlier, as everyone is now cutting back this means everyone will need to shop at M&S.

M&S is set to boom

[shoesize19] 10/9/2021 22:55

Cutting back is for survival for 2/3rds of the uk . only 1/3rd dont have to cut back .Lucky them

They shop at the likes of Harrods .

Debsdowner is correct , cutting back is now on the menu , and furlough ending .

Good luck hunting your socks , try Tesco .

[pierre oreilly] 10/9/2021 08:48

Oh no, no boom. I won't be buying my socks from mark's then.While the global picture is reasonably important, 95% of the performance of a company is to do with its strategy, not the global environment.Sheesh, if your posts reflect your position Debs, you must be the most prolific trader on advfn.And we all know, 80% of traders eventually lose their whole gambling budget, just like all gamblers in fact.

[netcurtains] 10/9/2021 08:44

I agree debs. More people are cutting back and being forced to shop in places like M&S to save money. As long as there is pressure on spending M&S will boom.

[netcurtains] 10/9/2021 08:35

There was a great M&S TV advert around the National TV awards on ITV last night.
A really good set of clothes.

[debsdowner] 10/9/2021 08:34

The economy is slowing and the expected boom has fizled out, which could ultimatley affect consumer spending in due course:

[xxxxxy] 10/9/2021 08:02

Gene-edited, virus-resistant superpig moves a step closer to marketBritish science firm Genus develops animal with resistance to devastating porcine virusByJulia Bradshaw9 September 2021 • 2:29pmA British science business has moved a step closer to selling a genetically edited superpig that is resistant to a deadly virus after reporting successful clinical trials.Genus said that tests carried out in March and July have proved that its engineered pigs can fight off porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), an illness which is devastating to pig herds in farms across the world... Daily Telegraph

[debsdowner] 09/9/2021 11:34

Both the footsie 100 and 250 had two bad days, footsie 100 close to 7,000 range yet again and its not surprising MARKS share price is weak.

The rise in national insurance and also utility bills will eat in consumers finances and could hit retail sales.

[netcurtains] 09/9/2021 10:08

Come on M&S, harry up and go up - we all know you're going up eventually, you might as well get started today.

[debsdowner] 09/9/2021 09:54

QANTAS well I agree with that !

[debsdowner] 09/9/2021 09:53

MARKS meets its critics YOU !!!

[netcurtains] 09/9/2021 09:51

Price Inflation is a two-edged sword.
"if" (only if) all the big super-markets put up prices then those stores will make BUMPER profits. It depends if Tescos etc follows.

But price rises always helped oil companies, so the same might well be true for super-markets.....

It depends if they all play.

Generally speaking:

PRICE RISE == BIG PROFITS