To be tired of clothes shops selling so many brands other than their own

Yes, that did finally work.

However, if I click on Nightwear & Pyjamas from the main page then filter on Brands there is no M&S Collection in the list. Other Brands are on there.

I did a screenshot of the Brands page to prove it's not on that page as well. It's hit and miss depending on which way you view it.

I just checked the filters on an iPhone and the view is exactly the same. You need the filter panel at the top of the main shopping screen, not the A-Z of brands.

Never had any trouble at all with the M &S filters for just M&S or the brands i'm interested in.

No M&S Collection here....

It's a lot more difficult if there is a lot of stuff, shopping on those silly apps, I always use the websites on an iMac as it's a lot bigger and the filters are all there, maybe if people are shopping on phones it doesn't add to the shopping experience

I also agree it's too much. I think it takes away the "inspiration" you want when window shopping for something new. I think it also cheapens nicer high street brands because you can compare so many metrics. Think it's fine for basic clothes but makes it less enjoyable for nice clothes.

Well, I've just tried exactly that and it doesn't work on my iPad or iPhone. There is no M&S Collection in my brand list.

Also, combining the "Pyjamas" filter with "Autograph" brand produces... one pair of PJs, Autograph brand.

I just went to the M&S site on my phone. Selected lingerie and nightwear. 'M&S Collection' was literally the first option under the brand filter. Selected 'Pyjamas' under the category filter. Result: a perfectly manageable length list of M&S PJs which could be filtered further by style, colour, size, sleeve length, etc.

I'd have thought that M&S and Next would have realised that the way to increase sales is to make their website work for time poor middle aged women who know what they want and are willing to spend a bit more on good quality basics as long as they can find them quickly as opposed to young people happy to scroll all day browsing hundreds of fast fashion pieces.

This! I have loads of money. I am time poor. I would buy high margin items.

I cannot be arsed to hunt through all the crap so simply don't buy.

It also means i get given too many choices. Say i filter for girls tshirts. There'll be 100.

I can't be arsed to trawl through so many that i just abandon it and don't buy anything

B&q is awful for this. They have an absolute excess of stuff in any search I do . And I can’t work out which is decent quality . I just want to search for actual b&q stuff I can get in the shop. I tried searching for a mirror the other day and was overwhelmed with all the options

yep hate it x

A lot of it is called Collection

Is it? I hate it so much.

‘I'd prefer if there were tabs for the different brands on the one site, it's easier and more transparent but I'm no IT expert so may well be tricky and costly!’

Whereas I would find that tedious.
Going out tomorrow night and late Wednesday evening I decided to have a look for something to wear, had a very specific idea of what I wanted, within in minutes i had found a pair of trousers by Reiss and a top from Mint Velvet on Next, both delivered today.

The choice can be overwhelming, thats true but I just deselect brands I know I don’t want, including next own brand as It’s not a brand I buy / wear.

I don't see what an established key brand like M&S has to gain from obscuring it's own unique offerings under a mountain of other brands. Can someone explain the thinking?

I already detest online shopping - except for Vinted weirdly - I get scrolling fatigue really quickly so I absolutely despise clothing websites only allowing me to load all of 10 items a page whilst offering me 1,234,567 pages of clothing items. Midi skirts 40,000 results! Am I expected to make it past page 6?

What I actually do now is just type in the description of the item I want by brand in Google or Google images. And wallah! I get a page of offerings, so I don't need to faff with the clunky, insensitive, ineffcient search engine on the actual website, as google has already narrowed it down for me.

Perhaps this is all part of the master plan to get people back into stores.

@Nasyan

How do you filter on that then? Collection or M&S Collection isn't in the list of brands.

It's not great if you have to ask on a forum how to filter on the actual brand of the shop.

Next is the worst. I want a coat but if I go on nexts website I will be faced by 6 million coats. I just can't.

And you can't just filter by marks and Spencer's. It's autograph, etc. It drives me mad.

A lot of it is called Collection

Ooh, interesting about LTS, I was getting them through M&co, so worthwhile knowing I can go elsewhere too.

I get them for my eldest DD, her height does not come from me.

Please tell me how you filter M&S pyjamas.

Great point!

I like it because when people buy me Next vouchers for Christmas I can spend them on brands I actually like 😄

It's not hard to filter.