Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Marks and spencer cheap outlet store in Wood Green top floor ...
Has been closed. You've got to go to wembly now if you want a M & S discount store. Looks like they're just letting the top floor rot, it's baracaded off like a zombie movie.
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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What about the cafe on that floor? And the loos?
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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All in darkness it seems. You can look up the stairs at the top, lights off, no ones home. Staff said' 'closed off, need to go to wembly'.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Reading around, M&S are reducing the number of 'outlet stores' (and floors), following a combination of greater online sales and better management of stock, they say. The Wembley outlet is in the just-opened London Designer Outlet ["offers a unique range of 50 aspirational brands and high street brands selling merchandise with up to 70% RRP, 15 restaurants & cafés and a 9 screen cinema complex" - what's not to like?].
They are also closing a few small 'standard' town-centre stores e.g Dover and Harlow, sometimes opening a 'Simply Food' shop nearby where customers can collect clothes ordered online. As for the future of the Wood Green ground floor store.....?
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Shut. It's really a shame, and annoying that, when I tried to go, the website was still saying that it was open.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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I'm actually glad. It was a rubbish store and just added to the bleak desolation and third-world feel of the Wood Green shopping experience. We deserve better from Marks & Sparks than third-rate goods that nobody else wants.
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I actually really liked the outlet, especially for bathroom stuff like towels, mats, etc. Sad to see it gone.
Shop elsewhere if you feel wood green has a third world feel.....in fact why not simply move out of the borough entirely? One less grumps to have to deal with!
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I reckon if they threatened to close it, like park road did with the diving boards, they would have seen profits jump and it might have survived.
Either way, it seems like terrible management just turning the lights off and not using the space.
They must be related to the Wood Green Vue cinema management team.
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Anyway, I like bits of Wood Green... The indoor market, Wolves Lane garden centre and a few other places are great.
There are plenty of discount stores in Wood Green. My point about M&S was a valid one in that they've obviously come to the conclusion that it's not commercially viable. I think it would be good for the highstreet to have a better mix of shops and for the "quality" shops such as M&S to raise their game a bit to attract more customers. There really isn't anything decent since Pearsons closed. This would be good for Wood Green and the local economy in general. It's in danger of becoming a ghost highstreet full of pound shops and bookies and £2.99 leggings.
Or maybe they should keep it rubbish so some people can still buy cheap stuff there and it will ultimately close down because it's not profitable?
FPR are they keeping the whole floor shut? Or maybe they are doing a refurb? I can't imagine they'd want to waste all that retail space!
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When I asked the staff what's happening with the upstairs bit they said 'nothing' and when I looked up the stairs the whole floor looks like it's now sitting in darkness. Also the barricades they set up look really permanent, so I don't think they plan customers going up there for a good while anyway.
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I don't think wood green is in danger of becoming a ghost high street, weren't the police quoted as saying wood green is now the second busiest high street after only oxford street ? It's a really popular place with massive potential in my mind. M&S were simply poor at making their shop a space that people wanted to spend much time inside.
They also hardly offered any choice. So many times I would go in looking for a simple blue jumper to find that I had a choice of one and they had managed to make that one a really unappealing shade of blue.
Tk max just nailed it, why have 40 blue jumpers all the same sitting on top of each other ? Just use the space to have 40 different blue jumpers.
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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I don't imagine it was the comments on the shop, Lauren, so much as your reference to "the bleak desolation and third-world feel of the Wood Green shopping experience."
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