I had the opportunity to visit the M&S store in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Saturday. I walked through the lingerie department on the ground floor and found the changing rooms. There is no designation on them, it just says Changing Rooms. I assume that means anyone.
Next door were the toilets, one door, and it did have the usual M and F sign. So far, so good.
I went in to have a look. The set-up there is rather unusual. Only one toilet area. There was a row of cubicle doors, and a queue of women outside, waiting. Each cubicle door had a male or female sign on it, alternately.
I'm guessing that most men wouldn't need to queue so would they just queue jump to go straight to the door designated for them? How would the women like this? Or, if those stalls are empty, would the queuing women use them rather than wait? There were no urinals and no washbasins outside of the stall area, so basins I assume are inside the stalls.
I find this a very awkward and unsatisfactory solution. If the male and female cubicles are not in separate areas, it means all have to queue together, and as it was situated in the women's lingerie section, there will be few men using it. Yet there was an equal number of male and female cubicles.
I think women should take back the male ones.
I did not buy anything. I went just to look.