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 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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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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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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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin on
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Please stay civil, Lauren, as required by our house rules.
Your comment has been edited in accordance with our house rules.
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Yeah, I tried getting a plain black suit-skirt there last year. M&S seemed the obvious choice but no. Wood Green one is full of the kind of rubbish all the market stalls sell cheaper.
I'm sure Wood Green is very busy. But my ghost highstreet comment was more about the quality of the shops and are people able to get what they want or add money to the economy? Are they actually buying what they want or just what is there? Seems like it's mainly sweatshop-clothes shops and plastic tat from China. Wouldn't it be nice to have some proper shops selling good quality items with the staff on more than minimum wage? I think M&S really ought to maintain their integrity in this respect, because if they can't do it, who can?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I wouldn't say Autograph men's shirts at £40 is market-stall rubbish.
I didn't like Pearsons btw. Snooty staff resentful of the fact that they weren't working in Bond St. Too many racks crammed into too small a space - as in Primark today. Chaotic kitchen section.
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