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|title=The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer: ..and How It Rose Again
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|pages=288
|publisher=Profile Books Ltd
|date=March 2007
|isbn=978-1861978981
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Throughout my life I've had a changing relationship with Marks & Spencer. Back in the sixties I was a Saturday girl and worked full-time in some school or college holidays. As an adult it was the source of most of my clothing and of my daughter's too. Finally I achieved a long-held ambition and became a shareholder: after all what could be a safer home for my savings than the nation's best-loved retailer? Then disillusionment set in. People who worked in the stores started to murmur that all wasn't quite what it had been. The clothes no longer lived up to expectation: the styles were dowdy and the quality not up to scratch. Finally, the share price plummeted and along with a lot of other people, I was left poorer.
My thanks to the publishers, Profile Books for sending me a copy.
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= I never thought too much about their food section, but still wish I could afford to buy my clothes there.
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Actually, I'd find this interesting. Back in the day, when I was at a silly grammar school, it was considered heresy not to go on to uni. One of the few "acceptable" careers to embark upon was one of M&S' training programmes. I quite fancied being a buyer, as I recall. I've often wondered how it all went so spectacularly wrong.
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|name=Sue
|verb=replied:''' At the time when you would have been going through the system, Jill, I think you might have found that there was something of a glass ceiling for women in the company. '''Jill said|comment=
'''Jill''' said|comment=Ooh, doubly interesting considering I was at a girl's grammar school!
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