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DamnAlabama · 2025-03-28T17:05:41+00:00

I went into M&S Food today and every customer I came across was absolutely oblivious to anyone else in that store. It's like Percy Pigs over morals.

JudgeJ · 28/03/2025 20:51

ballettap · 28/03/2025 17:43

I have never had that experience in M&S. Or any supermarket to be honest. Perhaps it depends on where you live.

Or how you behave yourself!

Cathandkin · 28/03/2025 20:48

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:46

It must be a postcode lottery

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It must! Plus I like their jacket potatoes with Cornish cheese because the salad that comes with it is lush.

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:46

Cathandkin · 28/03/2025 20:33

Whaaaat?! I've never had to queue once at a Marksies café! Plus the assistants are all like lovely kind aunties and call you "sweetheart".

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It must be a postcode lottery

meisafairy · 28/03/2025 20:46

Couldn’t order the M&S best ever steak pie with my Ocado shop 💔😔

Oneandahalfonagoodday · 28/03/2025 20:40

Fagli · 28/03/2025 18:00

Yes, M&S is feral. I only shop in Harrods. Although I’m slightly tempted if there is an aisle dedicated to chips.

Oh no, I'm so sorry, how degrading for you! Are you still banned from Fortnum's after that ugly incident with the caviar? 😉😂

Badbadbunny · 28/03/2025 20:37

CrystalSingerFan · 28/03/2025 19:32

You forgot the vape shops. At least in Causton...

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I'd put them in the money laundering category. Few ever seem to have any customers at all.

Cathandkin · 28/03/2025 20:34

OlivePeer · 28/03/2025 20:10

Interesting! I wonder why they've made that decision. Just imagining how great a "big supermarket" sized M&S Foodhall would be!

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That would bring me joy.

Cathandkin · 28/03/2025 20:33

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:04

Don't get me started on their cafes with 2hr queues.

Whaaaat?! I've never had to queue once at a Marksies café! Plus the assistants are all like lovely kind aunties and call you "sweetheart".

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:25

Petuniaspetal · 28/03/2025 20:19

I should abandon them too for discontinuing their summer fruits jam and their pecan peanut butter. To add insult to injury they have discontinued their big white mountain chocolate bars. The thin ones just don't have the same crunchiness.

They really should give a 6 month warning.on these things so we can bulk buy before d day or at.least petition so they can stay. 😢

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Yes. I can't believe their cherry whips were only for Valentines day and their black forest bites only for Christmas . Their routine chocolate selection is a bit lacking imo.

TY78910 · 28/03/2025 20:23

Firenzeflower · 28/03/2025 17:43

Go to Asda at Charlton SE London. It’s like Hunger Games but often people are in their pj’s.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 agreed!

I don’t mind the M&S folk as there is always something to look at so I’m happy to do the same thing.

Morrisons however - that is another matter entirely. You go in to do a shop and the customers there are away with the fairies.

Petuniaspetal · 28/03/2025 20:19

DollopOfFun · 28/03/2025 17:36

M & Who?

They are dead to me since they discontinued the syrup sponge pudding last year, the one I that I had been buying since the 1990's. DEAD.

I should abandon them too for discontinuing their summer fruits jam and their pecan peanut butter. To add insult to injury they have discontinued their big white mountain chocolate bars. The thin ones just don't have the same crunchiness.

They really should give a 6 month warning.on these things so we can bulk buy before d day or at.least petition so they can stay. 😢

TorroFerney · 28/03/2025 20:13

I worked at one in the 90's in the North as a job between jobs, helped an older chap to the car with his shopping, it was a Rolls Royce - he gave me a pound.

Titasaducksarse · 28/03/2025 20:12

OlivePeer · 28/03/2025 20:10

Interesting! I wonder why they've made that decision. Just imagining how great a "big supermarket" sized M&S Foodhall would be!

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Cardiff has a pretty big one now

OlivePeer · 28/03/2025 20:10

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:03

It's because the foodhalls are all too small. Their planners need to pop to Tesco etc and measure their aisles for some tips going forward.

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Interesting! I wonder why they've made that decision. Just imagining how great a "big supermarket" sized M&S Foodhall would be!

FullOfLemons · 28/03/2025 20:04

I think you just need a broader perspective on things

A trip to the Waitrose in Canary Wharf will set you straight

The people in there are feral. It’s like something out of mad max

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:04

Don't get me started on their cafes with 2hr queues.

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 20:03

OlivePeer · 28/03/2025 19:59

Actually I agree - I notice people in the way, oblivious to other customers, no attempt at being efficient, etc., far more regularly in M&S than other supermarkets. This is in multiple branches in different parts of the country. No idea why!

It's because the foodhalls are all too small. Their planners need to pop to Tesco etc and measure their aisles for some tips going forward.

LemonadeSunshine · 28/03/2025 20:02

I think it's partly the design of the Food halls. Our newly opened one has narrow aisles in all the cold sections, so people are constantly jostling for space, working around trolleys and people. The main crossways aisle is also fairly narrow. I enjoy some specific M&S foods but the shopping experience saves me a fortune as I don't go as often as I would if it were more spacious!!

imsosotired · 28/03/2025 20:02

They’re all so slow in our local m&s.

Cathandkin · 28/03/2025 20:00

I've not come across that at all.

OlivePeer · 28/03/2025 19:59

Actually I agree - I notice people in the way, oblivious to other customers, no attempt at being efficient, etc., far more regularly in M&S than other supermarkets. This is in multiple branches in different parts of the country. No idea why!

Gloriia · 28/03/2025 19:57

We can only hope the Christmas passonfruit log continues for years to come I couldn't go back to trifle now.

Titasaducksarse · 28/03/2025 19:56

It's the couples everywhere in the food aisles. Retired couples where it's evident the woman has been in charge of food shopping all their married lives but now HE goes too. However he doesn't understand the rules of supermarket shopping so gets in the way, leaves the trolley in the way, picks up the wrong items etc thus causes chaos.

Oh and if another fecking child makes the cow 'moo' in the milk aisle I'm going to lose my shit and tell 'Philomena and Tarquin' to stop harassing the moo cow and go choose oat milk and squeeze thar instead.

LardoBurrows · 28/03/2025 19:54

Doingmybestbut · 28/03/2025 17:51

Agreed although I did see the lady from Glee/Only Murders in the Building in there recently so that was nice.

Oh, was that Jane Lynch who played Sazz Pataki in Only Murders in the Building? She also played Sophie Lennon in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, was she in the fruit aisle shouting How'd you like them apples?

Compash · 28/03/2025 19:54

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 28/03/2025 19:15

It's Markies in Aberdeen.

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It sure is - called it Markies for years when I lived there - then moved down to Wales where it's Marksies - I have to catch myself and sound like AI or a spy saying it...