It’s official; Marks and Spencer have fallen, the sequel.......

[MrsSnippyPants]

First thread getting full and and I continue to be interested in responses received to people’s emails and store visits.

Agree with a previous poster.. Asda pants are comfy. Can't say how long lasting they are though as they are newish.

Another lost sale to M and S.

It was ridiculously hard not to shop in M&S today, but managed it. Think giving up alcohol Monday - Wednesdays was easier!

Yep, I don't want to stop shopping their either - dd1 really likes their very plain bras, they are good for station food etc, we are expats who use them both here for good quality basics & in the uk for a Big Uniform Shop twice a year because they're much cheaper there (import mark up to the ME is a killer).

I've got a family member who works for them.

I'd really like to carry on spending my usual, ooh, maybe £1k a year there? But nope, not until they change this policy.

Just lost my Twitter virginity and posted my first ever tweet on the M&S ad link! So when Mr Rowe asks what was the twitter response to the new ad, by my reckoning it's 5 per cent liked it, 5 per cent didn't and 90 per cent want the changing room policy changed .....

They will still ignore it though!

I see Vodafone is having an ‘always’ twitter moment regarding advertising in the spectator. Tantrums and the Twit response ‘shhhh shhhhh shhhhhhhh, now there, wipe your eyes, blow your nose and we won’t talk to the bad people ever again’.

No, when asked they will be told
All amazing things by the 5% and then carry on thinking well wasn’t that a good idea. In the same why Government consultation cherry pic few comments on their side and ignore rest.

Uniqlo do really good basics for anyone avoiding Marks and Spencer now. They are only in London but you can order them online.

Uniqlo are in Market Street, Manchester now.

I like Sainsbury's full briefs. Very comfy.

Another vote for Uniqlo. They do have stores outside London, I like the Oxford one.

I like Uniqlo for jumpers. They don’t do any of the other things that I buy in Marks though. There will be things I will simply have to forego...
Goodbye tasty Gluten Free Chocolate Twist pastries....it was lovely eating you, and I hope that one day I will eat you again.

I like Sainsbury's full briefs. Very comfy.

I too am a recent convert.

Twitter thread from Jean Hatchet:

"Today @SamCSheff and I visited Sheffield @marksandspencer and @jlandpartners to see if they allow men in women’s changing rooms and what their staff think of that. #BoycottMarksAndSpencer t.co/RI1oGX6uFW "

twitter.com/JeanHatchet/status/1193579443052302338?s=19

I never got a mail back from M&S. Perhaps because I enquired how this would affect staff of different faiths... I asked whether they had the right to refuse being on the shop floor or measuring a male-bodied person in lingerie. I assume they’re still drafting a q&a.

Twitter thread from Jean Hatchet:
quite superb!

No. we had a few incidents in a store with this kind of thing with men and now we have said no - we have had enough. We are changing it.
From the JL manager she spoke to. Good news - just sad there has to be incidents before the policy is changed.

Well done Jean.

That M&S Christmas ad tweet has been ratioed.

Letting men indulge their fetishes in women's changing rooms. Lingerie provided. What could go wrong?

I really hope John Lewis are sorting it out. At least then I can shop there instead.

I am going to basically buy Christmas at JL once they confirm this. I would normally do food at Waitrose and lots of gifts/decorations/extras at M and S. But I'm going JL all the way.

Just waiting for confirmation.

Also uniqlo heattech thermals are the best thing ever.

We use M&S like the corner shop because it’s the closest. Not any more...

Another one waiting for JL confirmation that legal sex based exemptions will used to keep all males out of female changing rooms. If they do it will be a bumper JL Xmas in this house.

If any John Lewis PR are scanning these threads, now would be a good time to mobilise your Comm’s team!

I want to start my Christmas shopping. I hope JL will lead the way and provide women only spaces.

Go jean. Owning marks. 💪💪💪💪

Wow that twitter thread...

Incredible!!

Unsung heroes....

What a shocker that they had incidents

It's not complicated is it. Penisis in one. Vaginas in.another. job done.

Why can't people simply think about a policy that admits men based on wigs?

Apart from the total logic fail, what on earth will they say to a non binary male? Here take this wig with you and you can enter?

It's utter nonsense. And is just begging for a macho, male dressed transwoman to shit all over it.