Ajaz Ahmed
69 comments By Ajaz Ahmed
What are we missing? What are they selling?
I've just read the comment left by Mr/Ms Anonymous "Attracting top staff outside of London is very difficult and asking them to move next to Impossible." It is very offensive. Are you suggesting that good people only live in London? I've got news for you. Good people do live outside London. Come to the North, and I'll show you around.
I'll take you to Starbucks for a coffee, and we even have Mcdonald's up here.What Mr Machin doesn't understand is, people still want to buy clothes from you. Until he makes his senior managers and himself stand at the doors of the shops and stop people who haven't got an M&S bag to ask them why they didn't buy anything. They are never going to know what's wrong with their business. I'll tell them if they want.
Have you got the courage to stand at the doors and talk to people? Let me know when you do.Good idea M&S. It would be criminal if you didn't choose the city where it all started, Leeds. Lots of good office space and a direct train service that only takes two hours to get to London Kings cross. I used to go to London weekly for a full day of meetings.
At least they they courage to try it and learn lessons from this.
What a great idea, other retailers should now adapt and copy this idea.
It’s the time I’ve visited this site, it’s awful. Lots of fundamental mistakes have been made. Compare it to Screwfix, so much easier to navigate. It doesn’t matter what you are selling, the principles of a good website are the same.
Great idea, others should follow their example.
Well done, a great idea to open a physical store selling products that are profitably with a well known brand. However, I think it could look a lot better.
What took you so long to figure out that you should be doing this?
A great example of a retailer not standing ideally by and let someone else do the innovating.
The competition better get their skates on.
Alex, congratulations on the new brand and logo, it looks very nice. Did you employ an expensive consultancy to come up with the idea of having one brand, or did you do what I would have done, which is to walk around the shops and listen to customer and staff conversation? You would have then found out that everyone was already calling it Currys. This would have cost you nothing. Which one was it?
Alex, you make it sound like the internet has just been discovered. It's been here for a long time. You remind me of what the then Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips said "On Internet shopping - I don't think it is awfully relevant. People like to smell and see their food before they buy it."
WOW, beautiful, please open in Leeds.
We have to talk about this subject. I'm the chairman of a company only because I'm a shareholder, it's the same with companies like BooHoo. Retailers have plenty of ethnic background people shopping in their stores, in their adverts and working on the shop floor. Let's stop talking about this and start to do something about it.
"Don’t just give customers what they ask for, give them what they don’t know they want yet."
From the look of that photograph, that's not what customers want. It looks very basic, nothing that makes you want to tell your friend, "get yourself down to the AO store in Tesco. It looks amazing."Looks very nice.
I admire what they say but the brand is so powerful that they should have something online, maybe a very small range or other products, they can and should take advantage of the brand online.
Not a good idea, the people who didn't buy it in their stores will most likely be the same ones that won't buy it in the M&S stores. The only winner, the PowerPoint presentation.
Commented on: 12 December 2022
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